Video of Testimony in Clinton Email Lawsuit Ordered Sealed
Source: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Recordings of upcoming testimony by an aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are to be kept under seal over concerns the video might be used against the Democratic presidential front-runner.
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled in advance of Friday's scheduled deposition by Clinton's former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills. She is among a half dozen current and former officials to be questioned about Clinton's use of a private email server when she was the nation's top diplomat.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/video-testimony-clinton-email-lawsuit-ordered-sealed-39413022
riversedge
(70,384 posts)humbled_opinion
(4,423 posts)Don't we have a right to know what the truth is before we blindly choose a candidate that may well be unable to be elected or worse lose so badly that Trump runs coat tails with packed house and senate? How Opaque of her....
Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)The optics are anything but good, and will only help underscore the voters' already deep distrust of the former Secretary (whether justified or not).
retrowire
(10,345 posts)You're right, this is awesome.
riversedge
(70,384 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)And redacted, edited beyond recognition.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)and hold Impeachment Hearings
The Judge's order is only effective against Right Wing Media
christx30
(6,241 posts)Anyone that can't stand to be mocked shouldn't run for public office.
I have a great deal of contempt toward anyone that would run for office. It's a power grab, under the guise of vanity. "This country is going through a lot of crap, but *I* am the one that's going to make everything ok."
Everyone from the local dog catcher to the President of the United States, regardless of party, should be mocked relentlessly. Their time on the campaign trail and in office should be an absolutely miserable existence.
That's the only way we know that we are getting public servants, rather than rulers.
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)it is everywhere,
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)humbled_opinion
(4,423 posts)Let the mockery begin....
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)for political ads. Transcript is enough. Judicial Watch and its fellow travelers have no legitimate reason for demanding the video in addition to the transcript.
7962
(11,841 posts)Its like texting, you cant tell emphasis or inflection from a transcript. Which means they could toy around with a statement and it would be up to ills to 'clarify" what was said and how. A video takes away that chance
Or, there may be nothing at all to see, who knows
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Duval
(4,280 posts)Drip drip drip
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)He was appointed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. In 1991, he was appointed by President George Bush to serve as an associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. In 1994, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve as United States District Judge for the District of Columbia.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Seems like a conflict of interest.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)... any more than Hillary feels indebted to Goldman Sachs for paying her hundreds of thousands of dollars for making a few speeches.
It's what they offered.
Duval
(4,280 posts)Right. Sigh!
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)they should have simply released it all in total
imagine all the ways the words will be mis-read to change context!
SHE saw me changing email.
She SAW me changing email.
She saw ME changing email.
She saw me CHANGING email.
She saw me changing EMAIL.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)Yay! Thank goodness I'll still be able to vote for a nominee that may or may not be involved in some seedy shit!
I hate knowing the details!
Hooray for being uninformed!
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)here I thought we had a right to know what our government officials are doing or not doing
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)The judge doesn't want the case politicized. Judicial Watch and its allies can go pound sand.
Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)I will not speculate as to why they want Judicial Watch to be able to use that video footage in political ads.
Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)And edited.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)Transcripts can be redacted. Video makes it harder to do that.
You'd do well to treat others with opposing opinions with respect. I have no idea what judicial watch is but I'm assuming it's some right wing nonsense.
That said, be kinder. You never really know who you're talking to.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)in order to harass them and damage them in elections.
TipTok
(2,474 posts)Equal standards for everyone should be the goal.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)TipTok
(2,474 posts)... From across the political spectrum.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)TipTok
(2,474 posts)... Where no one can challenge you or point out factual flaws with the Democratic nominee?
Doesn't that sound intellectually stimulating.
Maybe that's not why you come here. To each his own...
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)to keeping Donald Trump out of the white house.
TipTok
(2,474 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)are forbidden from polluting this place.
TipTok
(2,474 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Trump supporters in particular are toxic and destructive of our goals
Darb
(2,807 posts)How do you know it will be bad for the campaign? Or that this judge is protecting Hillary?
You don't. But go ahead, tell us......wait....let me...... ........cool, fire away.
ffr
(22,676 posts)Yeah, we tried to keep CIA agents working against weapons of mass destruction secret too. People who are right there, putting their lives on the line, spending years to infiltrate the enemy. And they're names are made public in a political revenge plot. Thanks a lot GWB!
American Hero
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KYl4HptEL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
American traitors
And thanks a lot to the 500 or so people who sat out the 2000 election and gave us a contested Florida recount and the entire aftermath.
zalinda
(5,621 posts)ffr
(22,676 posts)http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2000&fips=12
zalinda
(5,621 posts)I voted for the guy. But damn, he could have been more. If he was then like he is now, he probably would have done better. Whoever ran his campaign should be the one blamed.
Z
I know he distanced himself from Clinton, probably in agreement with his campaign manager.
Oh how the world could have been a much better place than it was today, even with Lieberman as his VP. Anything would have been better than W & Cheney.
zalinda
(5,621 posts)Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)... of course ...
ConsiderThis_2016
(274 posts)SusanLarson
(284 posts)Perhaps Anonymous can get and leak it.
Mohammed_Lee
(38 posts)JudyM
(29,294 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)JudyM
(29,294 posts)clip usage of a person under oath covered?!
Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)JudyM
(29,294 posts)Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)JudyM
(29,294 posts)Darb
(2,807 posts)So a million infotainment asshats don't swarm down trying to film it and make it a circus.
She hasn't testified yet, so any judgement that you are making regarding motive for the actions of the judge are premature. But please proceed govner.
JudyM
(29,294 posts)going to be one in court vid just as there will be one transcript.
Similarly, I am not making a judgment, hello!? I am wondering about the legal basis. But please proceed with your own transparently supercilious "wisdom"...
Darb
(2,807 posts)Any of your "concern" is premature. Any and all of it. So please, keep whining if it blows your skirt up. Here's a novel idea, try to think of a reason that might help the Bernie campaign, then you might figure out a justification for the order.
JudyM
(29,294 posts)Darb
(2,807 posts)You are a partisan. Back away from the pipe.
7962
(11,841 posts)"Oh, it might embarrass someone" isnt a valid excuse
Oh wait, the "someone"is Hillary. She gets special rules. Nevermind
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)The transcript is enough. Judicial Watch and its allies will just need to have a sad.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Naw, there's nothing to this investigation.
Just look the other way and pretend no one knew anything about anything.
Who the hell was the Secretary of State for Obama anyway, Sgt. Schultz??
"I know nuffin, nuffin!!"
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)Cheryl Mills (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Mills
Darb
(2,807 posts)Rozlee
(2,529 posts)Was she sitting on the toilet or talking with a cucumber facial on?
senz
(11,945 posts)Let's keep her under wraps until she wins whatever it is she wants to win.