Trawler sinks in icy waters; 56 dead
WASHINGTON — A former federal prosecutor asked an appeals court Thursday to give him access to Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server and other records that might show whether, as secretary of state, she had leaked classified information about the Obama administration’s cyberattacks on Iran’s nuclear program.
Larry Klayman, who heads the conservativeleaning group Freedom Watch Inc., charged before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that the State Department had “fraudulently induced” a federal judge when to throw out his Freedom of Information Act suit.
The department has already backtracked. In court papers filed in advance of the hearing, government lawyers said State Department officials would reopen their records search because of the recent disclosure that Clinton had conducted official business over a private e-mail account.
They also acknowledged that department of- ficials had conducted only a limited search of records in Clinton’s office in response to Klayman’s 2012 request under the Freedom of Information Act to see all documents relating to the leak to a New York Times reporter.
The court case underscores the degree of scrutiny and suspicion suddenly facing Clinton, widely seen as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, since the revelations about her e-mail account. Last week, she advised a House committee that the server was wiped clean after she turned over 30,490 official e-mails to the State Department.
Freedom Watch is demanding official records relating to her tenure in the Cabinet from 2009 to 201 3.
Russia vowed Thursday to continue searching a vast area of the frigid Sea of Okhotsk for 13 people missing after a fishing trawler sank, killing at least 56 of the 132 people onboard.
Another 63 were found alive in the icy waters off the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East, but it was unlikely more survivors would be found. Russia’s Investigative Committee has begun a probe into possible charges over safety violations in the sinking.