In a statement to us, the State Department said the 14,900 emails included the “several thousand work-related emails” that Comey mentioned at his July 5 press briefing. The State Department has so far released about 30,000 Clinton emails to the public. Judge William Dimitrouleas of the U.S. District Court said Thursday that the new emails must be released to Judicial Watch by September 13.
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Florida court order issued Thursday increases the likelihood that material contained in recently discovered emails from Hillary Clinton’s time at the State Department will be released before Election Day. However, it was disclosed at a court hearing on August 22 that the FBI had turned over about 14,900 emails to the State Department that it had uncovered during the course of its investigation.
Bernie Sanders had it right when he said to Hillary Clinton during a debate last fall, “The American people are sick and exhausted of hearing about your damn emails”.
The ruling, however, only covers emails covered under Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act request on the Benghazi attacks and other matters.
Another U.S. District Court, considering a separate Judicial Watch lawsuit, has scheduled a hearing on that proposal for Tuesday. The FBI investigation concerned whether there were any violations of federal law on the handling of classified information, and whether there had been any hacking of the email server by foreign or hostile powers.
This batch consists of emails from Clinton’s private server and the computer archives of government officials with whom she corresponded as secretary of state.
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.
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It is unclear how many documents might be attachments, duplicates or exempt from release.
