(Washington, DC)– Judicial Watch today announced that Judge Dabney L. Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has
ordereda hearing for June 6, 2018, regarding the personal email correspondence of Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Peter Kadzik with former Clinton presidential campaign chairman John Podesta, Clinton campaign officials, and others (
Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice(No. 1:17-cv-00029)).
The court order came in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuitfiled by Judicial Watch against the U.S. Department of Justice on January 15, 2017 after it failed to respond to a November 7, 2017 FOIA request seeking:
All email correspondence between Peter Kadzik on either his official Justice Department email account
peterkadzik@gmail.comand any non-government employee concerning, regarding, or relating to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of non-state.gov email to conduct official government business;
All email correspondence between Peter Kadzik on either his official Justice Department email account or
peterkadzik@gmail.comand John Podesta; and
All email correspondence between Peter Kadzik on either his official Justice Department email account or
peterkadzik@gmail.comand any official, officer, or employee of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign.
The timeframe for this request is December 1, 2014 to November 7, 2016.
Previously, Judge Sullivan issued an
orderon January 17, 2017, requiring the Justice Department to “preserve all agency records and potential agency records between the dates of December 1, 2014 and November 7, 2016 in any personal email account of Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Peter Kadzik.”
The court hearing is scheduled for:
Date: Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: Courtroom 12
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
333 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20001
