Meanwhile, Clinton’s former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and two other staff members were granted immunity deals in exchange for their cooperation in the now-closed FBI investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state, according to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah). Another 5,600 emails were deemed work-related but State Department attorneys warned that up to 50% of those are duplicates of emails that Mrs. Clinton already turned over. The paper said that was out of what could be as much as 10,000 pages of material.
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For example, when Clinton adviser Jacob Sullivan was sent an email about what the Federal Bureau of Investigation called “pending military activities” by North Korea, Sullivan inferred that “the person at [the State Department] who sent the email must have had reason to believe it could be sent on an unclassified system”, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents summarized Sullivan as saying.
The department insisted to judges that officials needed until at least October 14 to sift through the emails.
Judge James Boasberg decided the State Department must release 1,050 pages of emails out of what could be 10,000 pages total by November 4, just four days before the presidential election, leaving potentially 9,000 pages of content still unknown to voters.
The investigation agency also said it will begin releasing the emails in batches from next month.
The lawsuit produced 276 pages of internal State Department records “revealing that within two days of the deadly terrorist attack on Benghazi, Mohamed Yusuf al-Magariaf, the president of Libya’s National Congress, asked to participate in a Clinton Global Initiative function and ‘meet President Clinton'”.
Top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, in her interview, explained how they had to update email addresses with the White House so Clinton could email President Barack Obama.
“The State Department is being obstructionist”, said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, whose organization has sued to get a look at Mrs. Clinton’s messages.
According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, “in August 2013, State Department officials were aware of 17 FOIA requests relating to requests for Clinton correspondence, including four that ‘specifically mention emails or email accounts'”.
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The State Department has complained that it does not have sufficient resources to process all of the emails that are being sought, which has created repeated delays.
