“Hillary Clinton’s secret server jeopardized our national security and sensitive diplomatic efforts on more than 2,000 occasions, and shockingly, it now appears her reckless conduct continued even after leaving the State Department”, Donald Trump spokesman Jason Miller said in a statement.
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Some of those 30 messages may be duplicative of the more than 52,000 pages already made public in other FOIA cases, Justice Department lawyer Robert Prince told Mehta in court, asking for time to determine how many of those remaining could be released.
Mehta, an appointee of President Barack Obama, questioned why it would take so long to release so few documents and urged that the process be sped up.
Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, has been criticized for using an unauthorized private email system run from a server in the basement of her home while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, a decision she says was wrong and now regrets.
The case is Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of State, 15-cv-692, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington).
The Clinton campaign has not commented on the matter.
The deal itself was no secret: A week before the email, President Barack Obama had submitted to Congress an agreement between the US and the United Arab Emirates, also known as a “123 Agreement”, that would “establish the legal framework for the United States to engage in civil nuclear cooperation with the UAE under agreed nonproliferation conditions and controls”, according to a State Department news release at the time.
A Clinton spokesman dismissed Judicial Watch in an earlier statement as “a right-wing organization that has been attacking the Clintons since the 1990s”. With the November election little more than two months away, Republicans are pressing for the release of as many documents related to Clinton as possible. A woman who answered the phone at Sullivan’s chambers said he was unavailable to provide clarification.
“The [FBI] said it would need until the end of September to review the emails and redact potentially classified information before they are released”.
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had recovered at least 30 emails that reference the 2012 terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi that were not previously disclosed. It wasn’t immediately clear when the documents would be released or exactly what they would include.
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The FBI this month provided Congress portions of its file from the agency’s yearlong investigation.
