The FBI has recovered about 30 deleted emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server that had contents related to the 2012 Benghazi attack.
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The State Department’s lawyers said in court on Tuesday it’s unclear how many of those 30 emails weren’t included in the 55,000 pages Clinton had previously turned over.
The FBI this month provided Congress portions of its file from the agency’s yearlong investigation into whether then-Secretary of State Clinton and her top aides mishandled classified information that flowed through a private email server in the basement of her NY home.
The hearing was held in one of several lawsuits filed by the conservative legal group Judicial Watch, which has sued over access to government records involving the Democratic presidential nominee. He ordered the department to report to him in a week with more details about why the review process would take a full month. In an August 21 interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” program, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said that once Judicial Watch’s inquiries were received, “the secretary will get to work right away on answering them”.
While Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, the department began to explore a potential deal to build a consulate in Nigeria on land owned by Chagoury’s family.
The emails were obtained by the conservative group Citizens United in an August 15 court-ordered release of Clinton’s communications with her staff, which were captured on her personal email server.
That exchange was included in the State Department Inspector General’s report on Clinton’s email use but it was absent from the files turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and released to the public-a sign that was “raising questions about the thoroughness of her disclosures to the government and her record-keeping practices as secretary of state”, the paper said.
The Times editorial noted that Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff at the State Department and now vice chairwoman of her presidential bid, was paid simultaneously by the State Department and the Clinton foundation. She claimed – time and again – that she had already turned over all work-related e-mails on a USB drive and that she and her staff had only deleted those e-mails that were entirely personal.
She was part time aide to Hillary Clinton at the State Department, personal assistant to Hillary Clinton, salaried employee of the Clinton Foundation, and private consultant for Teneo Holdings, which was founded by three partners all with close ties to the Clintons.
A spokesman for the Clinton campaign did not respond to a request for comment by TheDCNF.
FBI Director James Comey told Congress that the interview was not recorded, so the agency would only be able to provide a summary.
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The Clinton campaign has been unable to calm concerns about her email setup, even after the Justice Department in July announced that it would not press criminal charges for mishandling classified information.
