Judge Orders Susan Rice Other Obama Officials To Answer Questions In Clinton Email Case

(USA Today) William Cummings USA TODAY Jan. 16 2019 A federal judge has breathed new life into questions surrounding former Secretary of State Hillary Clintons use of a private email server and the 2012 attack that killed U.S. officials in Benghazi Libya. Judge Royce Lamberth ruled Tuesday that Obama administration officials including national security adviser Susan Rice and deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes must answer written questions as part of a conservative judicial advocacy groups Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department over Clintons emails. The lawsuit by Judicial Watch  now with the U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit  was first filed in 2014 in an effort to obtain records related to Clinton and her staffs response to the Benghazi attack. Specifically the group sought documents about Rices explanation immediately after the attack on the U.S. compound that characterized it as a protest turned violent instead of a deliberate terrorist assault. At the time of the attack Rice was serving as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. But the case has since expanded to question the motives behind Clintons private email use while Secretary and behind the governments conduct in this litigation Lamberth wrote in his Tuesday order.