The State Department is in the process of assessing which ones can be released to Judicial Watch, who recently got a federal judge to require Mrs. Clinton respond in writing and under oath to their questions on the matter.
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The State Department is still reviewing the emails and documents discovered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine how many of them are work-related.
“They’ve had many of them since July 25. and not one record has yet been released, and we don’t understand why that’s the case”, he said.
In his letter, Chaffetz asks Comey if the FBI ever investigated the possibility that Clinton’s classified emails were improperly stored or accessed by her personal representatives or by anyone at the law firm Williams & Connolly LLP, including on “any unauthorized electronic devices or media, such as desktops or servers”.
Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said: “As we have always said, Hillary Clinton provided the State Department with all the work-related emails she had in her possession in 2014”.
“We’re pleased the court accelerated the State Department’s timing”, said Fitton, accusing the State Department of favouring slow release of those records.
“The information being sought is a crucial step in bringing greater transparency to Secretary Clinton’s “extreme careless” – I would call it dangerously reckless and grossly negligent – email practices”, said the senator who is facing a tough re-election race this year. 22, 2016, it is reviewing almost 15,000 previously undisclosed emails recovered as part of the FBI’s now-closed investigation into the handling of sensitive information that flowed through Hillary Clinton’s private home server. Asking to see her, ‘ longtime Bill Clinton aide Doug Band wrote Abedin in June 2009, in an email obtained by Judicial Watch referencing Crown Prince Salman of the oil rich country.
Numerous email exchanges are between Abedin and then top Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band.
The State Department previously agreed voluntarily to hand over emails to or from Clinton in her official capacity as Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013.
FBI Director James Comey, left, speaks during a press conference on July 5, 2016, while Hillary Clinton, right, followed by aide Huma Abedin, to her right, at Andrews Air Force Base on July 5, 2016.
But the emails show that the meeting was proposed and arranged through “normal” and “official channels”, not through “special access” as Judicial Watch characterized it. Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain “asked to see [Clinton] thurs and Friday thru normal channels”, according to the emails, and Clinton didn’t “want to commit to anything” until she confirmed her schedule and how she was feeling.
“Clinton’s pattern of serial dishonesty is completely unacceptable for a candidate seeking the nation’s highest office, and her refusal to tell the truth and own up to her poor judgment is a preview of how she would conduct herself if elected president”, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement.
Lawyers for Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, demanded release of the emails.
The judge ordered that the State Department report back to him on its progress by September 22.
The emails released Monday by Judicial Watch also offer more detail about Clinton’s meetings with Daniel Abraham – the SlimFast billionaire, founder of the Center for Middle East Peace and another Clinton Foundation donor.
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The emails show that Abedin fielded requests for meetings with Clinton, which came from big donors via other intermediaries, including a top foundation official. The calendars show the meeting was one of eight between Abraham and Clinton during her tenure as secretary, the most of any Clinton Foundation donor.
