Clinton has said consistently that she turned over all her government emails. The text of the emails will not be released for at least another month, while the Department of State reviews and redacts them, according to the AP.
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The State Department has said the Federal Bureau of Investigation provided it with about 14,900 emails purported not to have been among those previously released.
Portions of the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s email practices could be released as early as this week following a Freedom of Information Act Request.
Republican nominee Donald TrumpDonald TrumpExclusive: Kochs pull out of Ohio Senate race Coulter on Comedy Central roast: Like I care about a bunch of has-beens Foundation headaches mount for Clintons MORE’s campaign quickly used reports of the 30 Benghazi-related emails to blast Clinton for deleting around half of her emails in 2014.
Government lawyers told U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta Tuesday that an undetermined number of the emails among the 30 were not included in the 55,000 pages previously provided by Clinton to the State Department.
In a separate development Tuesday, Judicial Watch submitted 25 questions to Clinton about her 2009 decision to rely on a private server in the basement of her NY home rather than a government email account.
Judge Amit Mehta determined that the State Department and Judicial Watch must deliver a status report to the court by September 6 to indicate how numerous emails are non-duplicative of any other communications Clinton has previously disclosed.
The hearing was held in one of several FOIA lawsuits brought by Judicial Watch now revolving around the newly uncovered 14,900 emails.
Those questions will be raised again in the wake of Tuesday’s disclosure-more loudly, one would expect, since the public has more awareness of the Benghazi attack than it does about internal State Department IT policies.
Clinton was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing in July by FBI Director James Comey, though he said she was “extremely careless” in handling important government information. “It if it’s going to be five emails, I’d like to know before we agree to 30 days”.
“Hillary Clinton swore before a federal court and told the American people she handed over all of her work-related emails”, Jason Miller, a senior communications adviser for the Trump campaign, wrote. What’s in Hillary Clinton’s 30 Benghazi emails that makes them so worthy of scrutiny?
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SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty ImagesFormer Secretary of State and Democratic Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton returns to testify before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, October 22, 2015.
