The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has uncovered almost 15,000 new emails to or from Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton when she served as Secretary of State and sought their speedy release. The first disk, labeled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as containing non-classified emails not previously disclosed by Clinton, contains about 14,900 documents, Olson said.
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The department lawyers told US District Court Judge James E. Boasberg on Monday that the emails were now being reviewed and that the first batch of them would be released in mid-October.
Last week, lawyers for the Justice Department said the State Department will be reviewing and turning over the Democratic nominee’s work-related emails to Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group.
When Judicial Watch published 725 pages of previously unreleased emails sent and received by Clinton’s server Monday, those correspondences showed that some Clinton Foundation donors received special and swift access to Clinton while she served as secretary of state.
The State Department has publicly released most of those work-related emails, although some have been withheld because they contain information considered sensitive to national security.
Hillary and Bill Clinton defended their foundation on Wednesday, as a spokesperson confirmed Chelsea Clinton will not leave the organization’s board.
The Post’s Rosalind Helderman got ahold of the emails after a lawsuit made them public.
Only six weeks ago, the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey Jr., declined to recommend prosecuting Mrs. Clinton, saying that while her actions had been careless, they did not amount to a crime.
In an excerpt released of Clinton’s forthcoming speech planned for later today in Reno, Nevada, Clinton is expected to attack Trump’s campaign as an “alt-right” movement built on fear and discrimination. He added that he did not use his AOL email to transmit classified information, as Mrs. Clinton in fact did, nor did he use a private home brew server. Abedin told Band she was “nervous” asking Clinton to personally intervene.
Most of the concern about Clinton’s use of a private email server focused on the risk to classified information.
Trump, who also met Thursday in NY with members of a new Republican Party initiative meant to train young – and largely minority – volunteers, has been working to win over blacks and Latinos in light of his past inflammatory comments and has been claiming that the Democrats have taken minority voters’ support for granted.
The judge also scheduled a September 23 hearing on when to release the emails, a deadline that raises the possibility some will become public before the November 8 presidential election between Democrat Clinton and her Republican rival, Donald Trump.
In a separate development, Judicial Watch also released 20 previously undisclosed email exchanges involving Clinton that were turned over by her former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin.
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“He makes up stuff to use against me”, she said about Donald Trump, “if he would stick with reality I wouldn’t have a worry in the world”. Our assessment is that, like many email users, Secretary Clinton periodically deleted emails or emails were purged from the system when devices were changed.
