Judicial Watch heads back to court to seek unsealing of Clinton documents
Former
President Bill Clinton giving speech. —Photo
by Joseph Earnest
by Joseph
Earnest September 21, 2017
Newscast Media WASHINGTON—Judicial Watch is
heading back to court on Friday to make their case that the National
Archives and Records Administration must release alleged indictments
that could’ve sent Bill and Hillary Clinton to prison for their roles in
a fraudulent real estate scheme, according to a September 20 press
release.
In
2015 the conservative watchdog filed a Freedom of Information Act
request for 238 pages of documents written by Hickman Ewing, a deputy
working under independent special counselor Kenneth Starr, who had been
appointed to lead the probe into potential wrongdoing.
The Clintons never went to jail for their involvement in the Whitewater
controversy, but their main business partner, James B. McDougal, was
jailed and wound up dying in prison in 1998 at the age of 57. "The
Clintons are really sort of like tornadoes moving through people’s
lives. I’m just one of the people left in the wake of their passing by,
but I have not whining or complaining to do, because I have lots
of company," McDougal said in 1997.
According to Investopedia, "all three inquiries into the Whitewater
land deal yielded insufficient evidence to charge the Clintons
with criminal conduct" but "several of their associates were convicted
as a result of the investigations."
"Mrs. Clinton's grand jury testimony – and her alleged concealment
of her role in this fraudulent transaction, including the hiding of her
Rose Law Firm billing records concerning her legal work for Madison –
reportedly became the subject of an obstruction of justice and perjury
investigation," the conservative nonprofit said.
According to the group's president, Tom Fitton, "tax dollars are
wasted as the Deep State rolls along in its frantic efforts to protect
Hillary Clinton … President [Donald] Trump should demand to know why his
agencies are defending Hillary Clinton."