The State Department must start releasing the additional 15,000 emails uncovered during the FBI’s investigation into former Secretary Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonJudge orders State to begin releasing Clinton emails next month GOP senator: Anti-fossil fuel candidates “not fit” for federal office Trump aide: Clinton speech shows she’s anxious about Trump MORE’s private server starting on September 13, according to Reuters. The State Department must release these emails along with thousands of additional emails that have been uncovered by September 13.
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Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group lauded the judge’s decision and accused Clinton of trying to delete relevant work emails.
The Hill, a political newspaper published in Washington, said the ruling amounts to “the drip-drip release of emails [that] will be something [the Clinton campaign must] contend with through Election Day”.
The timing is bad for Hillary Clinton.
“Typical”, the campaign-related source said.
The judge’s order came after the Federal Bureau of Investigation handed over 14,900 of Clinton’s emails and other documents it recovered.
Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the attacks in Benghazi.
Another U.S. District Court, considering a separate Judicial Watch lawsuit, has scheduled a hearing on that proposal for Tuesday. “At this time, we have not confirmed that the documents are, in fact, responsive”.
The Justice Department cleared Clinton of allegations that she mishandled classified information while she was Secretary of State but still criticised her use of the private email server.
The FBI took her server in 2015 after it was discovered she had sent and received classified government secrets through the system, which the government bans.
But the judge only ordered the release of documents related to the Benghazi attacks, and it’s possible that none of those documents exists, the State Department said. “We also have not determined if they involve Secretary Clinton”.
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Information from Reuters news service was used in this this report.
