The FBI refuses to cooperate with court order in Hillary Clinton’s email scandal

  A Federal judge, Emmet Sullivan, has ordered the FBI to communicate with the State Department in regards to the agency’s ongoing criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’e personal email server but the FBI is refusing to even acknowledge there is an active investigation.

  Here is more:

The FBI refused to cooperate Monday with a court-ordered inquiry into former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s email server, telling the State Department that they won’t even confirm they are investigating the matter themselves, much less willing to tell the rest of the government what’s going on.

Judge Emmet G. Sullivan had ordered the State Department to talk with the FBI and see what sort of information could be recovered from Mrs. Clinton’s email server, which her lawyer has said she turned over to the Justice Department over the summer.

“At this time, consistent with long-standing Department of Justice and FBIpolicy, we can neither confirm nor deny the existence of any ongoing investigation, nor are we in a position to provide additional information at this time,” FBI General Counsel James A. Baker wrote in a letter dated Monday — a week after the deadline the Justice Department had set for the FBI to reply.

  Of course this leaves one wondering if the FBI is conducting any investigation at all and if so how serious of an investigation the agency is conducting.

  Judicial Watch–an organization fighting hard in court to bring the truth to the American people–it goes without saying, is not too happy as they have hit what appears to be another roadblock.

“We still do not know whether the FBI — or any other government agency for that matter — has possession of the email server that was used by Mrs. Clinton and Ms. Abedin to conduct official government business during their four years of employment at the State Department,” Judicial Watch said.

“We also do not know whether the server purportedly in the possession of the FBI — an assumption based on unsworn statements by third parties — is the actual email server that was used by Mrs. Clinton and Ms. Abedin to conduct official government business during their four years of employment at the State Department or whether it is a copy of such an email server. Nor do we know whether any copies of the email server or copies of the records from the email server exist,” the group said in its own court filing Monday afternoon.

  And, according to this article, Charles Grassley has come out swinging as well:

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is blasting the FBI for rebuffing a judge’s request for information on the law enforcement agency’s investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email system.

Grassley, whose panel oversees the FBI, reacted sharply to a letter the FBI sent Monday turning aside U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan’s request for information on whether investigators have been able to retrieve records from a backup thumb drive of Clinton emails or from a server turned over by a tech company Clinton hired.

“The FBI is behaving like it’s above the law,” Grassley said in a statement provided to POLITICO on Monday evening. “Simply refusing to cooperate with a court-ordered request is not an appropriate course of action. This entire case, from Secretary Clinton’s ill-advised decision to use a non-government email server, to the FBI’s investigation about classified information, needs some transparency in order to assure the American people that getting to the bottom of this controversy is a priority.”

  So I guess the question is simple, what are you going to do about it Mr. Grassley? Or, to use a quote from the movie Reservoir Dogs, “are  you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?”

  Or maybe you are also part of the problem, playing your little role in the game…

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