The emails were recovered as part of the FBI’s investigation into the handling of sensitive information that passed through Clinton’s private home server during her time as secretary of state, a probe that is now closed, with Clinton cleared of criminal wrong last month. He said “if the State Department determines any of them to be work-related, then obviously we support those documents being released publicly as well”.
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State Department officials said Monday the communications, contained in 14,900 documents, represent both personal and work-related materials that must now be vetted by authorities before they can be made public. The State Department released the original 30,000 of Clinton’s emails over a period of almost a year, periodically missing court-ordered deadlines as its staff scrutinised the documents for classified information.
Many others apparently got through, according to an AP analysis released Tuesday, which found that “More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money – either personally or through companies or groups – to the Clinton Foundation”. Powell says he doesn’t recall mentioning it to her until she was already a year into the job.
The FBI said it found “tens of thousands” of previously undisclosed emails in its year-long investigation into Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of State.
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”. “This is very unhelpful for their campaign, and something that they’re going to have to try to figure out how to manage, especially if these email releases happen around a presidential debate”, Bonjean said. The second disk is labeled as emails containing classified information. Judge Boasberg is overseeing the process of making them public pursuant to a federal public-record lawsuit filed by the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch. Though the exchange is far from a smoking gun, it and a number of other e-mails involving Abedin are a bad look for the Clinton Foundation as it combats accusations of pay-to-play.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) recently warned her colleagues that Russian hackers might release fake or doctored documents in a move to embarrass Clinton and the Democrats in October.
The email case has haunted Clinton practically from the first day it was revealed she had relied on a private email server.
As the US Presidential elections edges closer, the looming specter of the e-mail probe threatens to overshadown Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign and in a shocking new revelation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified 14900 fresh e-mails that had been sent using a private e-mail server. For that reason, Comey said he declined to press charges against Clinton for her use of the private email server.
In late July, it turned them over to the State Department, which now must set a timetable for their release, according to Boasberg’s order.
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“Clinton’s pattern of serial dishonesty is completely unacceptable for a candidate seeking the nation’s highest office, and her refusal to tell the truth and own up to her poor judgment is a preview of how she would conduct herself if elected president”, Priebus said.
