The subpoenas were issued Monday by House Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith of Texas with the support of Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
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The State Department is now reviewing almost 15,000 previously undisclosed emails recovered as part of the FBI investigation.
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.
Also on Monday, a GOP lawmaker issued subpoenas to three private companies that helped run or protect Clinton’s email server.
CNN has reached out to representatives for Rice, as well as the Clinton campaign, and has not yet received a response.
The emails became public through a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, and were among 725 pages of Abedin’s correspondence. With Clinton’s untrustworthiness and unpopularity second only to Donald Trump, the release of thousands of new documents could portend a devastating October surprise.
Within one month, the State Department will try to understand whether the newly found emails that the FBI handed over to the State Department after finishing the investigation, were really new or only duplicates of the previous emails, according to The Hill newspaper.
But in July, Comey gave some insight into the process, noting that unlike FBI investigators, Clinton’s attorneys didn’t actually read all her emails.
The Daily Beast previously reported that the State Department went to extraordinary lengths to allow Kendall, Clinton’s attorney, to keep all copies of her emails, including ones later determined to contain classified information.
The FBI discovered the roughly 14,900 emails by scouring Clinton’s server and the computer archives of government officials with whom she corresponded. The State Department is reviewing the documents for classified information.
“After the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice whitewash Hillary Clinton’s email crimes, they certainly can not be trusted to quickly or impartially investigate Hillary Clinton’s new crimes, which happen all the time”.
“I$3 nstead, they relied on header information and used search terms to try to find all work-related e-mails among the reportedly more than 60,000 total e-mails remaining on Secretary Clinton’s personal system in 2014”, Comey said in a public statement in July, when he criticized Clinton’s decision to use private email but recommended against prosecuting her or her aides.
The crown prince of Bahrain, Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, whose government had given $50,000 to the foundation, requested a last-minute meeting with the secretary of state.
The conversation between Clinton and Powell was first reported by The New York Times, based on an excerpt from an upcoming book about Bill Clinton’s post-presidential years by Joe Conason.
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As if these developments weren’t problematical enough, former Secretary of State Colin Powell last weekend denied Clinton’s claim that he advised her to use a private server, as he had done, saying, “Her people are trying to pin it on me”. It remains to be seen when or how numerous emails will be released to the public. “He did write former Secretary Clinton an email memo describing his use of his personal AOL email account for unclassified messages and how it vastly improved communications within the State Department”, his office told NBC on Friday.
