As Judge Mehta told the government, redacting 30 or fewer emails should be a simple task – one that does not require a month to accomplish.
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“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.
“Good friend of ours”, Band said in an e-mail exchange released last week by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, which obtained the documents and others as part of a lawsuit against the State Department. But where are the senior Democrats asking why it is wrong to take such donations if she becomes president, but it wasn’t wrong to take millions from corporate and foreign donors when she was secretary of state?
In 2009, when she was Secretary of State under Obama, Clinton made a decision to use a private server that was physically hosted in the basement of her and Bill’s NY home, instead of her USA government email account.
Smith said that she has not heard from Clinton, the State Department or the Obama administration despite four-year-old promises that they would give her an explanation on what had happened on September 11, 2012.
Lawmakers who have reviewed the FBI’s notes and documents from the investigation have said they raise more questions than they answer.
A Clinton campaign spokesman didn’t immediately reply to an e-mail seeking comment. Fifty-six percent believe Clinton should have been charged with a crime in the FBI investigation of her use of a private email server.
The report itself is said to be about 12 pages, with an additional 30 pages of notes taken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation agents who interviewed Clinton about her email server.
In July, FBI Director James Comey described Clinton’s use of the email server as “extremely careless”, but that her behavior did not warrant criminal charges.
State Department lawyers told US District Court Judge Amit P Mehta on Tuesday (30 August) that the emails were not included in the cache of 55,000 pages previously handed over by Clinton. The Justice Department accepted the FBI’s recommendation. The controversy around Clinton’s emails began past year, and has continued to roil even after Comey recommended against charging Clinton with any sort of crime.
“I just think that, if you’ve decided that you think she should go to jail and you’re voting for Donald Trump, then nothing’s gunna change your mind”, Steve Schale, a Florida Democratic strategist, said in an interview.
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The documents are expected to be released in the coming days in response to several requests from media organizations under the Freedom of Information Act, sources said.
