Hillary camp links judge Bill appointed to GOP conspiracy

Bill Clinton

Hillary Clinton's campaign manager tried to link a federal judge appointed by former President Bill Clinton to an alleged right-wing conspiracy to destroy her reputation.

U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued a ruling Tuesday that top aides to the former secretary of state should be forced to testify under oath regarding her "home brew" email server.

"We all know that the right wing see Hillary Clinton as the Democrats' best chance to hold on to the White House and continue to build on the progress President Obama has made," Robby Mook said after CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked about the judge's decision. "That's why this right-wing group filed this lawsuit. Of course they're trying to subpoena people. Of course they're tying to get this into the news."

Tapper immediately replied, "This judge was appointed by Bill Clinton, I believe."

"Well, I, um, it's the judge's decision to make," Mook stammered. "My point is this is promulgated by a right-wing group."

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Sullivan was appointed by former President Bill Clinton to serve as the district judge for the District of Columbia on June 16, 1994. Judicial Watch, which lauded Sullivan's decision as "major victory," is one of multiple organizations with FOIA lawsuits related to the Democrat front-runner's email server.

"The court-ordered discovery will help determine why the State Department and Mrs. Clinton, even despite receiving numerous FOIA requests, kept the record system secret for years," Judicial Watch President Thomas J. Fitton said in a statement released Tuesday, WND reported. "While Mrs. Clinton’s testimony may not be required initially, it may happen that her testimony is necessary for the Court to resolve the legal issues about her unprecedented email practices."

Sullivan said "reasonable suspicion" existed to conclude that public access to records related to Clinton's server was undermined.

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"There has been a constant drip, drip, drip of declarations. When does it stop?” Sullivan said, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. "This case is about the public’s right to know."

Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook lumped in a judge appointed by former President Bill Clinton with a so-called conspiracy to damage the campaign

Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook linked a judge appointed by former President Bill Clinton with a so-called Republican conspiracy to damage her reputation

This is not the first time Clinton's campaign has tied an official appointed by a Democrat president to a right-wing conspiracy. Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon linked President Obama’s intelligence community inspector general, I. Charles McCullough III, to the same so-called plot in January.

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Fallon told CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota Jan. 20 that revelations Clinton had intelligence known as "special access programs," or SAP, on her server were part of a "coordinated leak" with Republicans.

Camerota noted that McCullough is not a Republican and then asked, "Why do you think he’s a stooge of the Republicans in Congress? I've heard you say that. What’s your evidence?"

"Because two months ago, there was a Politico report that directly challenged the finding of this inspector general, and I don’t think he liked that very much," replied Fallon, WND reported. "So I think that he put two Republican senators up to sending him a letter so that he would have an excuse to resurface the same allegations he made back in the summer that have been discredited."

Bloomberg analyst Josh Rogin was stunned that Hillary Clinton's campaign would question the integrity of Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III.

A Jan. 14 letter obtained by Fox showed McCullough contacted the House and Senate intelligence committees and leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as well as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and State Department inspector general regarding Clinton’s SAP documents. The letter said "several dozen" additional classified emails were found on Clinton’s server during a review by intelligence agencies.

Senior lawmakers with the highest levels of security clearance who wanted to view the documents were required to sign additional nondisclosure agreements, WND reported Jan. 21.