In his 26-page ruling, Judge Boasberg wrote, “Defendants and the FBI have recited chapter and verse of their efforts to recover Secretary Clinton’s emails. Those efforts went well beyond the mine-run search for missing federal records, and were largely successful…”
“The FBI pursued every imaginable avenue to recover the missing emails. Plaintiffs, significantly, cast no real doubt on that conclusion,” according to the judge.
Additionally, he emphasized that the Court takes it seriously when the government declares that there are no significant steps left for the Attorney General.
Furthermore, the judge said the plaintiffs failed to convince the Court that it has “a good faith basis to believe facts supporting jurisdiction exists and are likely to be found with targeted discovery.”
Reaction to the court’s ruling
In a statement, Cause of Action President John Vecchione commented that the dismissal “does not absolve” former State Secretary Clinton.
He added that the ruling does not show that the government already recovered all emails that were unlawfully removed.
