Judicial Watch Gives Clinton Camp the Second Blow of a 1-2 Punch
Just before Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey informed Congress it was taking a fresh look at its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server while secretary of state, the governmental watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit to obtain FBI records relating to that very same investigation.
The lawsuit includes a demand for FBI Form 302 investigative notes from interviews, and was filed after the FBI failed to comply with a July 7 FOIA demand. That demand included the following:
- All FD-302 forms prepared pursuant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure.
- All records of communications between any agent, employee or representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding, concerning or related to the aforementioned investigation. This request includes, but is not limited to, any related communications with any official, employee or representative of the Department of Justice, the executive office of the president, the Democratic National Committee and/or the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.
- All records related to the meeting between Attorney General Lynch and former President Bill Clinton on June 27, 2016.
Judicial Watch noted that the FBI has released to the public some Clinton investigation materials, while other records remain withheld. The organization’s president, Tom Fitton said Comey’s pledge to make his investigation transparent has, so far, been an “empty promise.”
“[O]therwise we wouldn’t be in federal court seeking this information,” he said. “An air of corruption surrounds the FBI/Justice Department investigation of Hillary Clinton and so, through this lawsuit, Judicial Watch is investigating the investigators.”
