A federal judge dismissed for the second time the lawsuits involving the e-mails of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The complaints were filed by two conservative groups. They sought to compel the Department of State to recover all e-mails from Clinton during her tenure as Secretary.
In 2016, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg first dismissed the lawsuits brought by Cause of Action Institute and Judicial Watch. He ruled that the cases were moot. According to him, the State Department and the U.S. Archivist did their legal obligation to recover Clinton’s emails. The conservative groups appealed his ruling.
Late last year, the D.C. Court of Appeals overturned Judge Boasberg’s ruling. The Court believed that the government might find more emails by “shaking the tree harder.” Because of the reversal the defendants and the FBI submitted additional details regarding their recent efforts in recovering Clinton’s remaining e-mails.
FBI did every reasonable step to recover Clinton e-mails
On Thursday, Judge Boasberg concluded that the FBI did extensive efforts to locate Clinton’s e-mails. There are no more remaining e-mails for the government to recover. The bureau did all reasonable steps to find Clinton’s emails from her private server and other devices.
