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The founder of the government watchdog groups Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch and a longtime foe of the Clintons is jumping on the news that Hillary Clinton shielded her emails while U.S. secretary of state by communicating through an Internet server in her home, instead of the official government system.
"There is no crime beneath the Clintons, as history has shown. But this newest email scandal is not minor," said Larry Klayman, who said Wednesday he's preparing requests to the court for contempt citations in pending disputes.
"It rises to the level of major criminality, as Hillary Clinton and her then State Department have again lied to courts and obstructed justice – as she did to independent counsels during her husband's administration."
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The stated reason by independent counsel Robert Ray that she was not prosecuted during her husband's administration was that a District of Columbia jury of predominantly African-American Democrats would have never convicted her, he said.
"This cynical assessment led to her escaping justice. While I did get a legal finding from Judge [Royce] Lamberth that Bill Clinton had committed a crime in releasing Privacy Act information about a woman he had sexually harassed in the Oval Office, Kathleen Willey, Hillary Clinton thus walked off scot-free, free to commit more crimes. Now is the time that this master criminal finally be held to account to the rule of law. Her 'nine lives' are long since gone."
It was during the 1990s that Klayman fought the Clintons over scandals such as China-gate, File-gate and Travel-gate.
Klayman said he learned at that time from two White House whistleblowers that the Clintons had hidden more than 1 million emails, which "they claimed were lost on White House computer servers."
The maneuver, Klayman said, obstructed Judicial Watch court discovery requests, the criminal grand jury proceedings of independent counsels Kenneth Starr and his successor, Ray, and investigations by Congress into the Clinton scandals.
On Wednesday, Klayman said the motions for orders to show cause will ask why Hillary Clinton and the Obama State Department should not be held in criminal contempt for allegedly lying to various courts over their responses to Freedom of Information Act requests seeking records concerning Clinton's role as secretary of state.
The records concern Israeli war plans and methods to eliminate the Iranian nuclear weapons of mass destruction and the decision-making process in her granting waivers to companies, countries and other interests.
Klayman said that in responding to the information requests, the Obama State Department at the direction of Hillary Clinton lied to several courts.
He reported in a statement: "Importantly, by Secretary Clinton's failing to produce the emails, but instead secretly hiding them by using private email accounts, she compromised national security by communicating on non-secured lines. Just yesterday, Gen. David Petraeus agreed to a criminal plea deal over his alleged misuse of national security classified information. It is likely that Hillary Clinton's misuse rises to an even greater level of criminality."
Klayman continued: "The American people also deserve to know the truthful facts about her felonious work at the State Department concerning Iran and the courts must now allow Freedom Watch discovery into why the requested documents were hidden and never produced, so that they can be disclosed in the public interest."
Klayman has been a thorn in the side of the Washington status quo for years. He has called for Obama's deportation, he has sued the National Security Agency and won at the district court level, he has sued to get Barack Obama's birth certificate, he has sued Hugo Chavez on behalf of torture victims, journalists, the Taliban and al-Qaida and more.
He won a key fight in the district court over the spying on Americans by the National Security Agency and represents Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio in a challenge to Obama's amnesty program.
The Washington Post reported that an investigative committee in the U.S. House also was working to subpoena all emails related to the attack on American assets in Benghazi, whether they are on government accounts or personal accounts.
The Post reported, "Numerous federal records and legal experts have questioned Clinton’s use of a personal email for government business and whether it violated the Federal Records Act."
The Associated Press also said Wednesday it was thinking about legal action against the state department over the issue.
The news organization said it had been waiting for a year for some emails by Clinton and pointedly said the department failed to suggest it doesn't have all of Clinton's emails.
The New York Times most recently took a different angle, pointing out how Clinton's use of a private email account blindsided Democrats.
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