The State Department said Monday it was 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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The new documents are believed to consist chiefly of emails to or from Clinton, said a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity, and may include a mix of personal and work emails.
Trump blasted Clinton for shifting responsibility for her handling of classified emails to former Secretary of State Colin Powell. Her team never actually read all of the emails, skimming subject lines instead.
New emails obtained by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch and released Monday show then-Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band asking top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin to arrange a meeting with the then-secretary of state for the Crown Prince of Bahrain, Sheikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa. While these 15,000 appear to be at least part of what Comey is referring to, there’s no way today of knowing how much overlap between those two sets there actually is.
The 14,900 documents referred to by Boasberg are believed to include emails that were not included among the 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton previously turned over to the State Department after her use of a private email server and private email account became public a year ago.
The State Department is now reviewing almost 15,000 previously undisclosed emails recovered as part of the FBI investigation. Clinton had claimed that she deleted only personal emails before returning over 55,000 pages of her work-related messages to the State Department previous year. In Abedin’s June deposition to Judicial Watch, she conceded that part of her job at the State Department was taking care of “Clinton family matters, ‘ Judicial Watch detailed on its website Monday”.
“Her people have been trying to pin it on me”.
“The Clintons made the State Department into the same kind of pay-to-play operations as the Arkansas government was: Pay the Clinton Foundation huge sums of money and throw in some big speaking fees for Bill Clinton, and you got to play with the State Department”, Trump said.
Hillary Clinton, 68, is the Democratic presidential nominee and is seeking to become the first woman to be elected as a U.S. president. Those emails had not originally been disclosed by Clinton’s attorneys.
“We are not sure what additional materials the Justice Department may have located”, campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said of the new emails.
Meanwhile, Republicans on Capitol Hill upped the political pressure on Clinton by subpoenaing three technology companies involved in her unusual home server setup.
Lawyers for the department told a federal judge Monday that they anticipate processing and releasing the first batch of these new emails in mid-October.
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Government lawyers disclosed last week that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has turned over eight computer discs of information: one including emails and attachments that were sent directly to or from Clinton, or to or from her at some point in an email chain, and were not previously turned over by her lawyers; a second with classified documents; another with emails returned by Clinton; and five containing materials from other people retrieved by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The subpoenas were issued Monday by House Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith of Texas with the support of Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
