A conservative watchdog group asked a federal judge to allow it to question Hillary Clinton under oath Friday after weeks of interviewing a number of her aides.
Judicial Watch, which is presently engaged in several Freedom of Information Act lawsuits against the State Department, requested permission to conduct a deposition with Clinton because its sessions with her former staff members shed little light on the reason her private email server was set up in the first place.
The watchdog group was granted discovery by a federal judge because the State Department had not been forthcoming about its efforts to locate documents that might have been located on Clinton’s server. That allowed attorneys for Judicial Watch to question some of Clinton’s aides, and the judge left the door open to the possibility of a Clinton deposition pending the results of the first interviews.
Clinton’s technology aide, Bryan Pagliano, invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and refused to answer questions about his involvement in the case. Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, two of Clinton’s top staffers at the State Department, could not provide clear answers about the personal email network that landed Clinton under investigation by the FBI.
