The agreement was announced in a court filing on Friday, State Department Director of Press Relations Elizabeth Trudeau told Fox News on Monday.
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However, it remains unsettled whether the full set of emails will be out before the presidential election on November 8.
All the emails then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent or received that the Federal Bureau of Investigation uncovered will be released by the Department of State, a conservative non-profit government watchdog group announced Tuesday. Judicial Watch, which routinely releases documents it obtains via open-records lawsuits, is expected to make the emails public.
The records will be produced in connection with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit before District Court Judge James E. Boasberg specifically seeking all of Clinton’s emails ( Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00687)). Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, has urged the department to release the emails before the November elections.
In July, the FBI completed its criminal investigation of Clinton’s use of a private email server and account during her tenure as secretary of state. State will conduct its own review to determine whether any of the emails are personal and any that are will not be released.
“The American people will now see more of the emails Hillary Clinton tried to hide from them”, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.
The State Department has not said whether it will release these emails to the public, as it did with the almost 55,000 pages of work-related emails Clinton provided previous year.
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In a separate filing in another Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit, the State Department acknowledged that an entire disc “containing information recovered by the FBI in the course of its investigation” had not been included “in the materials provided to the State Department by former Secretary Clinton in December 2014”.
