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.
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“It is astonishing that Hillary Clinton tried to delete and hide Benghazi emails and documents”, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in the release regarding the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge William P. Dimitrouleas, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, West Palm Beach Division.
Clinton is also expected to get a set of written questions on her email server soon from Judicial Watch.
After the system’s existence became more widely known, Clinton returned what she said were all her work emails to the State Department in 2014, and the department released them in batches to the public, some 30,000 in all.
“Typical”, the campaign-related source said.
“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.
Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, has been criticized for using a private email address and server while she was U.S. Secretary of State from 2009-13.
“We are not sure what additional materials the Justice Department may have located”, Clinton campaign spokesman, Brian Fallon, told the New York Times earlier this week.
State Department officials confirmed the existence of the nearly 15,000 emails Monday, and predicted they would need until October 14 to review the emails to determine which were work-related, The Hill reported.
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Information from Reuters news service was used in this this report.
