Hilliary gets yet another pass: Appeals court reverses lower court, say she does NOT have to give deposition in email lawsuit

If you're just now a college-age American you likely have no idea what that odd story was about Hilliary Clinton's email server.  And what you do know is almost entirely crap, since you learned it from the Lying Mainstream Media. 

The story below will correct that, but what the story really shows is how utterly corrupt our legal system is, in the sense that even when "elites" like Hilliary and Bill and the Obamas are caught red-handed, and ordered by a brave judge to give a sworn deposition, there's always a higher court that intervenes to rescue them from exposure.

Here's the background:  As you probably know, Obama named Hilliary as his Secretary of State--a perfect stepping stone to the presidency when Obama's term expired.  The SecState gets hundreds of top-secret cables from our embassies around the world, and some of these are way beyond Top Secret, as they name local people who provide valuable intelligence to the U.S.  Cables, emails and other communications with this beyond-Top-Secret classification are called "Sensitive Compartmentalized Information" (SCI), and it's a huge violation to transmit this material over ordinary, unsecure, unencrypted channels.

Now, Hilliary being elite, she loved to spend weekends at her estate in Chappaqua, New York.  But she also didn't want to be uninformed about important events around the world.  So she had her minions install an ordinary, unsecured email server in a closet at her estate.  This was the ONLY email account Hilliary ever had; she never had a government account, but transacted all official State Department business on her private email account.

So when an SCI cable would arrive at the secure communication facility at the State Department in Washington, and Hilliary was weekending at her Chappaqua estate, her top aide Cheryl Mills would tell her about the cable via phone, and usually Hill would direct Mills to send it to her.  Mills would then print it out, cut off the "header" saying the cable was Top Secret (or whatever) and then fax it or scan and send to Hilliary via email, to her unsecured server.

Now let's review for a sec:  No law or rule says government officials can't have a private email account on an ordinary, unsecure, unencrypted server, to use for personal emails.  The egregious violations are a) officials aren't allowed to use that private account for official government business; and b) it's a huge crime to send classified info to such a setup.

After the server was revealed, various congrssional committees tried to get to the bottom of who directed it be installed, who maintained it and had administrative authority on it, and what information was on it.

Hilliary and her Democrat defenders in congress stonewalled every inquiry.  Congress asked James Comey, director of the FBI--which we all now know was thoroughly corrupt--to investigate.  (This was 2016, before any of the egregious, documented corruption in that agency surfaced.)

On July 4th of 2016 FBI director Comey testified before congress.  He admitted that the server did exist, was unsecure and unencrypted, and had classified info on it (although he refused to say how high the classification was, no one on the committee thought to ask).  He then said he had made the decision not to charge her with violating the law regarding mis-handling classified information. 

A year later the Inspector-General of the Department of Justice would issue a report stating that his investigation had found copies of drafts of letters by Comey showing that Comey had decided not to charge her before she was ever even interviewed by the FBI.

Further, when the FBI finally got around to interviewing her, the interview was conducted by the notoriously corrupt Peter Strzok-- and Hilliary was not put under oath, meaning she couldn't be prosecuted for lying.  Even more incompetently, the FBI interview with Hilliary was not recorded, either electronically or by stenographer.

This is an astonishing violation of normal procedure.

Finally, the equally corrupt Cheryl Mills--who had been paid by taxpayers for years while a State Department employee--now demanded that she be allowed to attend the interview.  Normally the only person who can sit in on an FBI interview is the interviewees attorney, but Mills now made the utterly absurd claim that she was now Hilliary's personal attorney, and Strzok indeed allowed to attend the interview and take her own private notes.

Those notes could be used to ensure Hilliary didn't contradict her statements later.

Now, to this point Hilliary has NEVER given a sworn statement about her private email server--even to confirm that she conducted ALL official government business using it instead of a dot-gov email.

Now, any emails Hilliary sent to or received from the State Department also existed on that department's computers, so a federal judge ordered State to turn over copies of all such emails.

State whined that they'd already searched and couldn't find more than a few hundred.  The judge wasn't impressed, since friendly informants had already noted that there were tens of thousands, so the judge threatened the attorneys at State with penalties if they lied again.  This got them to magically discover all those emails, but now they claimed that they'd have to go thru each one to ensure it didn't contain classified information.  They told the judge they could maybe, with luck, clear and release maybe a few dozen emails a month, or some equally bullshit number.

Judge threatened again, and set State a quota of releasing about 3000 per month.

And it gets worse:  After all the above information came out, congress subpoenaed Hilliary's server, to find out what was on it.  Hilliary defied the subpoena, instead turning her email server over to a private tech firm ("Crowdstrike"), which quickly deleted all the data on it "beyond the possibility of recovery."  

This is called "wiping the disk," and when Hilliary appeared before congress to give her version, she was asked if she had instructed the private tech firm to wipe the disk. 

The woman the Mainstream Media repeatedly called the smartest woman in the world gave an answer that should last for decades.  It's on video, and you have to see her delivery to get the full effect.  She said "You mean wiped, like with a cloth?"

All the above is background, and you need it to understand the importance of what just happened last week.

Hilliary has so far managed to duck, dodge and avoid answering questions under oath about her email server.  Accordingly, a citizen watchdog group called Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request, asking both State and Hilliary some very pointed questions.

In classic Clinton fashion, Hilliary ignored the request.  The group then sued, and amazingly a federal judge (apparently the only honest one in the nation) ordered Hilliary to appear and give a live deposition, under oath, answering every question put to her by the plaintiffs.

At last it seemed as though Hilliary was finally gonna be forced to answer the questions she had been dodging for years.  But then a very interesting thing happened:  Hilliary's lawyers asked the DC Court of Appeals to overturn the judge's order that she give a sworn deposition.

And predictably, a three-judge panel on the DC Court of Appeals agreed, and issued a "writ of mandamus," commanding that.  And I'm absolutely certain the lower court judge will comply with the ORDER from the appeals court.  Cuz corruption protects Hilliary, no matter what.

The ruling by the 3-judge panel from the Court of Appeals strikes me as devoid of sound legal reasoning.  To see for yourself, you can read the court's full decision here.
In case that doesn't link, here's a backup:  ClintonDepositionRuling.pdf

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