From: Wall Street on Parade
By Pam Martens: March 12, 2015
Hillary Clinton at Press Conference on Her Emails While Secretary of State
There’s an old adage that goes: “never pick a fight with anyone who
buys ink by the barrel.” It’s generally interpreted to mean don’t go to
war with the press. That would surely include syndicated reporters
working for the Associated Press, which says in a lawsuit filed
yesterday that it has “one billion readers, listeners and viewers.”
Despite the sage advice, Hillary Clinton is now in a full blown war
with the press over how she became the Decider in Chief over which
government emails would be preserved from her time as Secretary of State
versus the tens of thousands that she elected to erase, ruling them to
be about personal matters.
The Associated Press has filed its lawsuit against the U.S.
Department of State because the Federal agency has defied the Freedom of
Information Act and stonewalled AP reporters for as long as five years
over requests for records pertaining to Hillary Clinton’s term as
Secretary of State. The lawsuit suggests a Department of State
flagrantly ignoring Federal FOIA laws. One section reads: MORE
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