The email’s recipients were Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, diplomat Jeffrey Feltman, policy aide Jake Sullivan, diplomat Kurt Campbell, State Department chief of staff Cheryl Mills, and Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
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The department must hand over those emails and documents to Judicial Watch by September 13 for its investigation into Hillary’s private email server.
He ordered the department to report to him in a week with more details about why the review process would take a full month.
The May 2013 e-mail, which the Republican National Committee obtained under a Freedom of Information Act and provided Wednesday, joins more than 2,000 messages that the former secretary of state sent or received through her private server during her tenure that have been labeled “confidential”, a low level of classification.
In a separate development Tuesday, Judicial Watch submitted 25 questions to Clinton about her 2009 decision to rely on a private server in the basement of her NY home rather than a government email account.
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.
Ms. Clinton previously had said she withheld and deleted only personal emails – nearly 32,000 – not related to her duties as secretary of state.
After the system’s existence became more widely known, Clinton returned what she said were all her work emails to the State Department in 2014, and the department released them in batches to the public, an estimated 30,000 in all. However, the Benghazi emails will take a little longer to be released.
In July, the U.S. Justice Department closed a yearlong criminal probe with no charges into the handling of classified material in Clinton’ s email setup, which FBI Director James B. Comey reproached “extremely careless”.
State Department attorneys revealed a taste of what may lie ahead Tuesday when they told a federal court that agents had identified 30 Benghazi-related emails among the records recovered by the FBI.
The official, who wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity, said documents in the case would be made public as the Federal Bureau of Investigation responds to Freedom of Information Act requests.
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Based on the FBI investigative file, including notes from Clinton’s July interview, Gowdy said it doesn’t appear agents pressed Clinton on why she set up the server. The media immediately sent its own FOIA requests to the FBI for the documents and notes associated with the investigation.
