Gawker Media executive editor John Cook followed news of the Associated Press’ suit by announcing his organization would also file a lawsuit against the State Department for their tactics of withholding Hillary Clinton and her aides’ emails from journalists. The Daily Caller,
COOK: So we are filing, probably today, a lawsuit prepared by… two attorneys we are working with in Washington, D.C. We have one active request with the State Department, which is for email correspondence between one of Hillary Clinton’s top aides Philippe Reines and reporters at about 34 news organizations…
And we received an absolutely preposterous response from the State Department, which was that they had no such records, that there were no e-mails between Philippe Reines… We appealed that request, and State Department said it would continue to search for those records. Years later, they are still searching and haven’t turned them over.
Now that we know there was a plot at the highest levels of the State Department to shield e-mail communications from senior staffers– and remember, this is not just Hillary Clinton who had one of these email addresses. Huma Abedin, one of her top aides, also had a clintonemail.com address… But now that we know that there was an effort at the top to frustrate the effort of FOIA requesters, we’re filing a suit…
