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FOIA News: Court rules Clinton can be deposed about her emails

Judge orders Hillary Clinton deposition in email flap

The former secretary of state's sworn written answers were "incomplete, unhelpful, or cursory," Lamberth says.

By Josh Gerstein, Politico, Mar. 2, 2020

A federal judge has ordered former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to sit for a sworn deposition for the first time in connection with her use of a private email account during her State Department tenure.

U.S. District Court Royce Lamberth issued the order Monday in connection with a five-and-a-half-year-old Freedom of Information Act lawsuit the conservative group Judicial Watch filed seeking emails related to the deadly 2012 attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

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