Earlier this month, the FBI gave the department about 15,000 new emails it had recovered during the course of an investigation into Clinton’s private email usage during her tenure as secretary of state.
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The order is limited to documents related to the Benghazi attacks and the State Department notes that it’s possible that it may not find any relevant documents.
The FBI called Clinton “extremely reckless” in her handling of the emails but did not bring criminal charges against her.
“As we have said, the department agreed to search the materials we received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in response to several pending (Freedom of Information Act) requests and, to the extent responsive records are identified, produce them”, State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said Thursday. The State Department must file a status report by September 6 and turn over the documents a week later.
In her June deposition to JW, Abedin said part of her job at State was taking care of “Clinton family matters”.
Painter’s criticism comes on the heels of Clinton Foundation President Donna Shalala saying any change would take awhile and the charity pledged Hillary Clinton would not accept money to the Foundation once she is elected.
It is unclear how numerous new emails are work related, or if the agency will be able to release all relevant emails before the presidential elections on November 8.
The conservative group Judicial Watch has stirred another distracting round of talk about this exhausted and exhausting subject with its release Monday of hundreds of emails from one of Clinton’s closest aides, Huma Abedin.
The Hill, a political newspaper published in Washington, said the ruling amounts to “the drip-drip release of emails [that] will be something [the Clinton campaign must] contend with through Election Day”.
Comey, July 5: “We found those additional emails in a variety of ways”. I want people to know that the decision to have a single email account was mine.
Comey, July 5: “I should add here that we found no evidence that any of the additional work-related emails were intentionally deleted in an effort to hide them”.
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They also claimed they would need until October 14 to review the documents to determine which were work-related and to prepare those for release.
