It’s been almost four years since Hillary Clinton experienced the worst embarrassment of her life but she is still in the news thanks to her many scandals. She has been ordered by a federal court to give a deposition under oath to Judicial Watch which she is still fighting. Her newest plight is that she has been ordered to turn over her memo on the search and review of her emails. That is the memo that instructed her lawyers on which emails to hand over to the government and which ones she needed to bleach bit before investigators found them.
She is refusing to turn that over too. Especially since many of the emails she claimed were private about yoga and Chelsea’s wedding turned out to be official documents with many containing classified material. Clinton claims the memo is covered by attorney work doctrine, a premise that Judicial Watch justly denies.
Via Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch announced today that it filed amotion in federal court to compel former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to produce the December 2014 after action memorandum created by her personal attorney Heather Samuelson that memorializes the search for and processing of Clinton emails in 2014. Samuelson reviewed Clinton’s State Department emails and about half of them were deleted (Hillary Clinton is also resisting, through an emergency appeal, the court’s order that she testify to Judicial Watch about her emails.)
Clinton is resisting producing even a portion of the “after-action” memo, despite an August 22, 2019, ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth that Judicial Watch may ask for the memorandum in its discovery. Clinton refused to produce any part of the memo, alleging that it is fully exempt from disclosure under the “attorney work product doctrine.” In an earlier ruling on a similar issue in this litigation, the Court held that “any contemporaneous documents shedding light on the three narrow discovery topics – even documents evincing attorney impressions, conclusions, opinions, and theories – constitute fact work-product” and should be produced.
Judicial Watch explains to the court: “After repeated attempts to resolve this dispute have proven unsuccessful, [Judicial Watch] respectfully requests an order from the Court to compel Secretary Clinton to produce the document … within short order.”