For example, House Republicans have pressed the Justice Department on why Clinton was never asked about her motivations for scrubbing the server, or whether the Democratic nominee’s attorneys compromised classified material by storing it in their desk drawers for an extended period.
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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. “If the State Department determines any of them to be work-related, then obviously we support those documents being released publicly as well”, he said.
The State Department says about 30 emails that may be related to the 2012 attack on USA compounds in Benghazi, Libya, are among the thousands of Hillary Clinton emails recovered during the FBI’s recently closed investigation into her use of a private server.
The Clinton campaign did not immediately respond for comment.
After a year-long investigation, FBI Director James Comey said last month that Clinton should have recognized the sensitivity of the information and that she had been “extremely careless” with government secrets.
“If Clinton did not consider emails about something as important as Benghazi to be work-related, one has to wonder what is contained in the other emails she attempted to wipe from her server”, senior communications adviser Jason Miller said.
During the Federal Bureau of Investigation probe of Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state, investigators discovered 110 email that contained classified information at the time they were sent or received.
Indeed. And these are questions that deserve answers before voters decide whether to hand Hillary Clinton the keys to the White House.
Also Monday, Judicial Watch released 20 previously undisclosed email exchanges involving Clinton that were turned over by her former deputy chief of staff, Huma Abedin. The FBI recommended against criminal charges. FILE – In this August 8, 2015 file photo, former President Bill Clinton helps paint a jungle gym during a visit to a Clinton Foundation project in Johannesburg. Republicans charge that donors to the foundation, including foreign governments and corporations, got preferential treatment from the State Department while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.
“Achieving true distance from the foundation is not only necessary to ensure its effectiveness, it is an ethical imperative for Mrs. Clinton”, it said.
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Scott Amey, general counsel for the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group, told McClatchy: “It is troubling that emails keep spilling out that were not turned over to State by Hillary Clinton”. It starts with Clinton forwarding a March 2009 email that she got from a someone who had unsuccessfully tried to get a job at State. The objective of Salman’s 2009 visit with Secretary Clinton was wholly unrelated, according to the statement.
