The FBI found them, and they’re not about yoga routines. Which meant that the efforts to erase emails were futile when they came up against government forensic techniques. Wrong. FBI Director James Comey revealed last month that investigators had discovered “thousands” of emails discussing official business that she had not delivered and deleted, including some classified messages.
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A Clinton spokesman dismissed Judicial Watch in an earlier statement as “a right-wing organization that has been attacking the Clintons since the 1990s”.
The depth of Mrs. Clinton’s misconduct regarding the unlawful email system and the obstruction of investigations into a terrorist attack in which four Americans were killed is breathtaking – as is the media’s indifference to it.
So what did Hillary say about Benghazi in these e-mails, and who was she talking to?
Almost as reprehensible, however, is the Obama administration at large.
The Justice Department closed the email investigation without criminal charges, and FBI Director James Comey has said investigators did not believe emails on the private server were intentionally deleted in an effort to hide them, but purged through normal processes.
“At this time, we have not confirmed that the documents are, in fact, responsive, or whether they are duplicates of materials already provided to the Department by former Secretary Clinton in December 2014.” he said. That would mean Clinton mishandled even more classified information on her non-secure server than first thought.
Clinton’s Republican rival, Donald Trump, pounced on the latest development regarding her emails.
Officials with security clearances know the categories of information that are classified pursuant to an executive order – whether they’re “marked” as such or not.
“I encourage you to get it done sooner rather than later”, the judge told a government lawyer during the hearing.
As always happens here, the State Department is claiming it will take quite some time to go through all these and redact classified information, while the judge is having a hard time buying that and wants the process sped up.
The judge, in this instance, is Amit P. Mehta. This is a political case, and the most politicized administration in history has just essentially asked a judge to play ball. The revelation of the existence of all these additional emails further rocked the nation.
Does anybody care how outrageous this is?
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Analysts say in order to change that, Trump would not only need a bombshell in the Federal Bureau of Investigation interview notes, he’d also need to erase the poor image he’s built with voters throughout the course of the campaign.
