Gone but not forgotten

A district court judge has ordered the State Department to continue searching for emails related to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, which took the life of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

 The ruling is another legal victory for the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, which has been trying to access thousands of documents about the attack using the Freedom of Information Act.

The Tuesday ruling by D.C. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta said the State Department hasn't met its burden of proving that it has done an adequate job of searching for all documents – primarily emails – related to the attack.

"This major court ruling may finally result in more answers about the Benghazi scandal – and Hillary Clinton's involvement in it – as we approach the attack's fifth anniversary," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement Thursday. "It is remarkable that we had to battle both the Obama and Trump administrations to break through the State Department's Benghazi stonewall."

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