The emails were not included in the 55,000 pages previously provided by Ms. Clinton; they were recovered by the FBI in its yearlong investigation of Ms. Clinton’s private email set-up as secretary from 2009 to 2013.
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Hillary Clinton has 30 days to provide written answers to 25 questions stemming from her use of a private e-mail server during her four years as US secretary of state.
“Clinton swore before a federal court and told the American people she handed over all of her work-related emails”.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch accepted the director’s recommendation, effectively closing the investigation.
The Democratic presidential nominee now has until September 29 to respond in writing to the questions.
This data comes as Mrs. Clinton faces another barrage of scrutiny over her email scandal, with the Associated Press reporting yesterday that a number of emails she withheld from the State Department dealt with the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya – another topic about which she has lied repeatedly.
In addition, it’s possible that the recovered emails contain incriminating information about Clinton’s handling of Benghazi and/or the truthfulness of her public comments about the debacle. Members of Congress, including House Oversight chair Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), complained about the amount of redactions in the files they accessed in the FBI’s cooperation with Capitol Hill.
The State Department is now fending off a barrage of requests to go through the 15,000 messages and release them ahead of the election.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, is confident they will receive at least some of these emails by September 30th, if not sooner. This time around, conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch Inc. filed a Freedom of Information Act case back in 2015 to see if any more of the Democratic presidential nominees’ emails were related to Benghazi.
Although more emails are expected to be provided to the RNC by the State Department in response to this FOIA request, this was the only email sent or received by the former secretary which was upgraded to classified and was done so at the lowest level of “confidential”.
Still, Clinton’s camp initially expressed satisfaction toward Sullivan’s decision to limit her to written testimony, as opposed to the in-person deposition that Judicial Watch originally sought.
“I’m confident it can be done by the 6th”.
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The US has already produced 343 documents related to the raid, according to an Aug 23 filing by the government telling Judge Mehta it wanted to turn over qualifying papers found by the Federal Bureau of Investigation starting Sept 30 and wrapping up by Oct 31.
