The State Department says 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.
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In a district court hearing, Judicial Watch expressed an urgency that these new emails be released before election day but the judge gave the government agency until September 23rd before a production schedule had to be finalized. The department raised the possibility of a phased release starting October 14, which left open how many would be disclosed before the November 8 presidential election.
According to Judicial Watch, the 725 pages of emails include exchanges from Abedin, whom the group claims “provided influential Clinton Foundation donors special, expedited access to the secretary of state”.
The selection of the 14,900 emails now being released were not part of the close to 30,000 emails – over 52,000 pages – turned over by Clinton’s lawyers in 2014 and released by the State Department in weekly and monthly installments for nearly a year.
Clinton’s lawyers also may have deleted some of the emails as “personal”, Comey said, noting that their review relied on header information and search terms, not a line-by-line reading as the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted.
“It looks like the State Department is trying to slow-roll the release of the records”, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said Monday, according to The Washington Post.
Lawyers for the State Department and Judicial Watch are negotiating a plan for the release of the emails in a civil public-records lawsuit before Boasberg.
Before it’s here, it’s on the Bloomberg Terminal. Abedin advised Band that when she went through “normal channels” at State, Clinton declined to meet.
Toner, the State Department spokesman, said Monday that there was nothing improper or unusual about the messages with the Clinton Foundation staff. “This was simply evidence of the way the process works in that, you know, any secretary of state has aides who are getting emails or contacts by a broad range of individuals and organizations”.
In a statement, the government of Bahrain said the $32 million pledge was in support of a scholarship program for young men and women from the Persian Gulf kingdom who attend universities in Europe and North America. The goal of Salman’s 2009 visit with Clinton was unrelated, according to the statement. Clinton’s additional use of a personal computer server at her home, however, broke State Department rules, an internal watchdog found. One such exchange from May 2009 shows Band asking for Abedin’s help in procuring a quick visa interview for a British citizen with a criminal charge. Bahrain has donated close to $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation according to their website.
“Once again this right-wing organisation that has been going after the Clintons since the 1990s is distorting facts to make utterly false attacks”, Josh Schwerin, a spokesman told POLITICO.
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In a joint statement, Smith and Johnson said the move was necessary after the three companies Platte River Networks, Datto Inc. and SECNAP Network Security Corp.
