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<\/a>Secretary of State John Kerry and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton<\/p><\/div>\n
WASHINGTON \u2013 The government activist group Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State John Kerry to force him to turn over the emails of his predecessor, Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n
\u201cSecretary Kerry is in cover-up mode for Hillary Clinton,\u201d said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile John Kerry may have replaced Hillary Clinton at the State Department, he has proven that when it comes to complying with federal records and disclosure laws, he and Clinton are cut from the same corrupted cloth,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The suit was filed against Kerry in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to compel his compliance with the Federal Records Act.<\/p>\n
It accuses Kerry of failing to take any action to recover emails that Clinton \u201cand other U.S. Department of State employees unlawfully removed from the agency.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clinton used a secret, unsecured email server and private email accounts to conduct State Department business, and has claimed the system was secure.<\/p>\n
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But GOP presidential candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina observed, \u201cShe had two Secret Service agents guarding the server. You know, we\u2019re not worried about it getting stolen. We\u2019re worried about getting hacked!\u201d<\/p>\n
Clinton and her advisers decided which emails were official government business and returned at least some of those 55,000 emails to the State Department in December 2014.<\/p>\n
She claimed just 30,000 of those emails should be made public.<\/p>\n
Clinton also admitted deleting 30,000 emails she deemed private.<\/p>\n
The Judicial Watch lawsuit charges:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Clinton emails are agency records subject to the [Federal Records Act (FRA)] and the State Department\u2019s failure to retain, manage, and search these agency records has compromised the Department\u2019s retention of records that concern or relate to Secretary Clinton and other high level State Department officials who used non-\u201dstate.gov\u201d email addresses.\u201d<\/p>\n
It also noted:<\/p>\n
\u201cAgencies may only dispose of records on terms approved by the Archivist of the United States, who is head of the National Archives and Records Administration (\u201cNARA\u201d). \u2026 This process is the exclusive procedure by which all federal records may be disposed of or destroyed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe FRA imposes a direct responsibility on an agency head to take steps to recover any records unlawfully removed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Judicial Watch said, before filing the lawsuit, it sent a letter to Kerry \u201cnotifying him of the unlawful removal of the Clinton emails and requesting that he initiate enforcement action pursuant to the FRA.\u201d<\/p>\n
The watchdog group said the response for Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy on May 14 ignored demands that the secretary comply with the FRA.<\/p>\n
That he didn\u2019t comply, Judicial Watch charges, was an \u201can abuse of discretion\u201d by Kerry \u201cthat has led to the continued withholding of official government records from the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Said Fitton, \u201cSecretary Kerry is in a position to provide the transparency and accountability his predecessor so casually dismissed. However, those in the Obama administration will do whatever they can, including ignoring the law, to protect Clinton, her \u2018legacy\u2019 and her 2016 presidential prospects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat a sad state of affairs it is when we must petition the courts to remind our leaders what the law is and that they are obligated to follow it.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, a federal judge ordered the State Department to start releasing 30,000 of Clinton\u2019s emails on a staggered basis.<\/p>\n
He ordered the first batch to be released on June 30, and \u201ccontinuing every 30 days thereafter,\u201d ending on Jan. 29, 2016.<\/p>\n
The State Department had asked to release them all at once, next year.<\/p>\n
It released 300 Libya-related emails last week.<\/p>\n
This week, the State Department also handed over 1,200 from Clinton\u2019s staff to the House Select Committee on Benghazi.<\/p>\n
Those were not part of the 55,00 emails Clinton had turned over.<\/p>\n
Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., wants to get all of Clinton\u2019s emails related to Benghazi before calling her to testify publicly.
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