Federal judge ‘shocked’ to learn State Dept provided ‘clearly false’ statements to thwart requests for Clinton docs

During a hearing last Friday, a federal judge slammed Obama-era State Department officials for lying to him and playing “word games.”

Four years ago the watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the State Department demanding access to all documents concerning former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s response to the 2012 Benghazi terror attack.

Department officials promptly requested the suit be dismissed on the grounds that they had already found and dispersed all related documents.

U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth refused the request at the time, and speaking Friday, he expressed satisfaction with his decision on the basis that it’s since become clear that the officials had made “false statements.”

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NEW: In a hearing with JW & DOJ, a federal judge criticized the State Dept: “The information I was provided was clearly false regarding the adequacy of the [Clinton email] search and… what we now know turned out to be the Secretary’s email system.” (1/5)http://jwatch.us/kBDuSW 

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