RUSH: I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a story from TheHill.com just today. Ready for the headline? "Court: Officials Can't Use Private Email Accounts to Evade Records Laws." That's TheHill.com, July 5th, 2016. "Federal officials may not use private email accounts to get around public records laws, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit overturned a lower court decision in which judges dismissed claims from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank that attempted to obtain correspondence from a top White House official through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
"The White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) said it did not need to search for or turn over records held by the head of the OSTP on a private email account as part of the open records request." So to review: A conservative think tank wants records from the guy who runs the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the White House says (summarized), "No. Those emails are on his private server, and you can't get them." So the White House specifically cited private server location -- private email server location -- as a means of denying a Freedom of Information Act request.
Which is, by the way, why Hillary did this in part. There were many reasons. "In addition to official White House email, John Holdren, the director of the OSTP, also sent and received emails from a domain at the Woods Hole Research Center." So a judge (his name is David Sentelle) disagreed. He said if... I don't have time to read you his ruling, but the bottom line is you can't use a private email server to shield your work from FOIA requests. What a day to hear that!