The revelations came in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch.
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All told, the Federal Bureau of Investigation turned over 15,171 emails it recovered that involved Mrs. Clinton, and of those about 60 percent have been deemed purely personal.
The timetable announced on Friday was in a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch, a conservative group that has filed multiple lawsuits to obtain government records related to Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.
After the judge’s order, Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said that “the American people could be deprived of this information at this essential time”.
The judge ordered the State Department to finish processing 1,050 pages of material for release by November 4, just days before Americans go to the polls to elect the next president, the Wall Street Journal said.
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'”. And why should voters have the opportunity to read Hillary’s emails before voting to decide if she should run the country?
In July, FBI Director James Comey recommended that no criminal charges be brought against Clinton, though he described the handling of classified information by Clinton and others as “extremely careless”. Government lawyers also said that around half of those emails are duplicates, suggesting that 2,800 of the emails are work-related records that Clinton failed to turn over to the State Department.
Indeed, at most the department will produce only 10 percent of the new documents before the election. The emails average 1.8 pages in length, according to State Department lawyers.
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There is no guarantee that the emails released over the next few weeks will be records that Clinton deleted because they could be duplicates of emails that have already been released.
