On Friday, things began heating up again in the legal proceedings regarding Hillary Clinton’s emails. Readers will recall the Judge Emmet Sullivan, a federal district court judge in Washington, D.C., had ordered the State Department to ask Clinton, her former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and her former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin to personally vouch that they’d turned over all records responsive to a Freedom of Information Act request that Judicial Watch filed seeking information on Abedin’s employment arrangements.

On Friday, as reported by Politico, Clinton submitted her formal certification, under penalty of perjury. She said she directed that all potential federal records in her private email account be turned over to her former agency. However, the process of turning over the documents was left to her attorneys, so Hillary did not personally certify that the handover was complete.

Meanwhile, Mills and Abedin failed to execute a certification. Instead, lawyers for both submitted letters to the court explaining their clients’ positions.

Mills’ lawyers told the court that she has submitted some work-related materials to the State Department and will turn over the rest on Monday (tomorrow). However, they added:

Ms. Mills does not believe that she has paper copies of potential federal records in her possession. Following our production on August 10, 2015, we have instructed her to delete any and all electronic copies in her possession.

Given that the documents Ms. Mills produced and will produce to the State Department are the subject of inquiries, Paul, Weiss will maintain an electronic version of the Mills production at our office until we receive additional instructions from you regarding this material. In the event that you request, due to concerns over potential reclassification, that we delete the copy maintained by Paul, Weiss, we ask that you expeditiously inform us and arrange access to those documents for Ms. Mills and her counsel as you offered in your letter.

Abedin’s lawyers said that she has produced some work-related documents and will produce the rest by August 28.

The Mills and Abedin emails are crucial. For one thing, they would provide a method of cross-checking the completeness of Hillary Clinton’s document production. Recall that it was through Sidney Blumenthal’s email cache that we learned Clinton had not turned over certain documents.

In addition, Clinton was wary of email. Skeletons, if they exist, are more likely to be found in the writings of Mills and Abedin than in anything Hillary committed to “paper.”

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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/20...-email-saga.php

Weasel words with wriggle room.

She told someone to fulfill her responsibility, therefore she's not culpable???

That's one heck of a defense!