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FOIA News: Oral argument scheduled in FOIA lawsuit for release of draft Clinton indictment

Push to unseal the draft Whitewater indictment against Hillary Clinton gets court date

Teresa Welsh, McClatchy DC, Sept. 20, 2017

A federal appeals court will hear a case brought by Judicial Watch on Friday to make public draft indictments of Hillary Clinton from the Whitewater scandal in the 1990s.

Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that files Freedom of Information Act requests, wants copies of the documents that the National Archives and Records Administration has declined to release. It filed a FOIA request for the documents in March 2015 and in October 2015 the group sued for the 238 pages of responsive records.

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Judicial Watch's press release available here.