A federal judge on Tuesday scolded Obama administration lawyers for dragging their feet in handing over documents from former top aides to Hillary Clinton. Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for D.C. suggested that the State Department needs to divert resources to deal with the onslaught of lawsuits seeking to get a hold […]
Bill Clinton sought State Department approval to invite a powerful, Putin-backed Russian oligarch with an expansive history of corruption to the Clinton Global Initiative’s 2012 meeting while Clinton’s wife was secretary of state, according to an e-mail newly obtained by National Review. The June 4, 2012 message was sent by Amitabh Desai, Bill Clinton’s foreign-policy […]
“A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the State Department to speed up its plans for releasing emails from two of Hillary Clinton’s top aides during her time at the department, citing intense public interest in the dealings of a former secretary of state who is now the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. The State […]
A federal judge urged the State Department to get more people on the case reviewing and releasing the emails of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her top aides, saying Tuesday that all sides should be eager to get the matter behind them. Judge Emmet G. Sullivan also rejected the State Department’s timeline […]
State Department attorneys argued the “ambitious” plan to publish all of Hillary Clinton’s private emails by the beginning of next year is preventing the agency from releasing related records in other cases. In a hearing Tuesday for a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Citizens United, Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court […]
More previously undisclosed State Department emails related to Benghazi have surfaced in a federal court filing, offering a public accounting of at least some of the records still being sought by congressional investigators. The filing Monday in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the conservative group Citizens United describes about a dozen Benghazi-related […]
Citizens United President David N. Bossie Statement: The State Department failed to comply with Judge Sullivan’s order requiring them to release Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin’s emails by September 13th in response to Citizens United’s FOIA lawsuit. Having failed to meet their obligations, the State Department is now asking the Court to reward their poor […]
An aide to Bill Clinton asked the State Department in 2012 about the former president potentially delivering a paid speech to an Iranian government-tied group that has pushed for an end to all U.S. sanctions against Tehran, according to an email exclusively obtained by Fox News. The email request, in June 2012, came during a […]
Today’s newly released State Department email is our second example to date indicating Bill Clinton’s apparent support for doing business with entities with ties to the Iranian regime. The most troubling issue with today’s email is that the event in question would not only have been a paid speech for President Clinton, but also a […]
We are pleased that Senator John Cornyn has joined Citizens United in calling for a Special Counsel to investigate the troubling Hillary Clinton email allegations. As a former judge and Texas state Attorney General, Senator Cornyn knows a clear conflict of interest when he sees one. Citizens United called for an impartial special counsel to […]
“Today Citizens United filed our opposition to the government’s motion to consolidate our FOIA lawsuits with nearly thirty other cases. The government’s request is little more than a stunt designed to delay the public release of Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills’ emails. The thirty lawsuits the government seeks to “coordinate” have no common issues of […]
On September 10, 2001, our leaders in Washington were happy to be debating things like Kennedy-Boehner education reform and McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform. Despite the 1998 terrorist attacks on our embassies in Africa and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, Republicans and Democrats alike were still relying largely on the oceans that separate us […]