Federal Judge James Boasberg on Monday ordered the State Department to review a new bunch of uncovered documents from Hillary Clinton when she was the Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, media reports say, APA reports quoting Anadolu Agency.
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U.S. District James Boasberg on Monday ordered the State Department to process those recovered records by September 22 and report back to him that day.
Representing the State Department, Justice Department lawyer Lisa Olson told the judge that officials do not yet know what portion of the emails is work-related, rather than personal.
U.S. Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton (L) and her husband former U.S. President Bill Clinton take the stage at the end of the 2016 U.S. Democratic National Convention at Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States on July 28, 2016.
Update: The Clinton campaign released the following statement on the emails: “As we have always said, Hillary Clinton provided the State Department with all the work-related emails she had in her possession in 2014”.
Clinton has already been scrutinised by Republican rivals about her original email scandal, and if more documents are made public, it would likely reignite the debate about how she handled her role as Secretary of State.
In his letter, Chaffetz asks Comey if the FBI ever investigated the possibility that Clinton’s classified emails were improperly stored or accessed by her personal representatives or by anyone at the law firm Williams & Connolly LLP, including on “any unauthorized electronic devices or media, such as desktops or servers”. The first disc, labeled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as containing non-classified emails not previously disclosed by Clinton, contains about 14,900 documents, Olson said. Her lawyers deleted an estimated 30,000 emails from her private email server, after they wiped it in such a way that the files could not be retrieved.
In another Abedin-Band email exchange, Band reaches out to Abedin, instructing her to get Clinton and the State Department to intervene in a problem involving the inability of some members of the United Kingdom football (soccer) team Wolverhampton, F.C.to obtain visas.
Numerous email exchanges are between Abedin and then top Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band.
Mr Band sought to arrange for the crown prince of Bahrain to meet with Mrs Clinton while the prince was visiting Washington.
Two days later, Abedin wrote to Mr. Band again. Judicial Watch’s lawyer, Lauren Burke, told the judge that the proposed deadline was too slow and called for a more immediate release of one batch of messages.
“Paul Martin’s [popular English footballer] client … needs to get an expedited appointment at the US Embassy in London this week and we have hit some road blocks I am writing to ask for your help”, sports-entertainment executive – and multimillion-dollar Clinton Foundation donor – Casey Wasserman wrote to the foundation’s head Doug Band, in an email that was then forwarded to Abedin.
According to the Clinton Foundation website, the Crown Price established a scholarship fund for the Clinton Global Initiative that had contributed $32 million by 2010. Copies of Mrs Clinton’s calendar obtained by AP confirm the meeting occurred in her State Department office on June 26 2009.
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“Some former prosecutors have even suggested that the coordination between the pay-for-play State Department and the corrupt Clinton Foundation constitute a clear example of a RICO (Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization) enterprise”, he continued.
