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posted by martyb on Friday August 26 2016, @04:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the where-did-THOSE-come-from? dept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/fbi-uncovered-at-least-14900-more-documents-in-clinton-email-investigation/2016/08/22/36745578-6643-11e6-be4e-23fc4d4d12b4_story.html

The FBI's year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server uncovered 14,900 emails and documents from her time as secretary of state that had not been disclosed by her attorneys, and a federal judge on Monday pressed the State Department to begin releasing emails sooner than mid-October as it planned.

Justice Department lawyers said last week that the State Department would review and turn over Clinton's work-related emails to a conservative legal group. The records are among "tens of thousands" of documents found by the FBI in its probe and turned over to the State Department, Justice Department attorney Lisa Ann Olson said Monday in court.

The 14,900 Clinton documents are nearly 50 percent more than the roughly 30,000 emails that Clinton's lawyers deemed work-related and returned to the department in December 2014.

Lawyers for the State Department and Judicial Watch, the legal group, are negotiating a plan for the release of the emails in a civil public records lawsuit before U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of Washington.

In a statement after a hearing at the U.S. district courthouse in Washington, Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said the group was pleased that Boasberg rejected the department's proposal to begin releasing documents weekly on Oct. 14, ordering it instead to prioritize Clinton's emails and to return to court Sept. 22 with a new plan.

"We're pleased the court accelerated the State Department's timing," Fitton said. "We're trying to work with the State Department here, but let's be clear: They have slow-walked and stonewalled the release of these records. They've had many of them since July 25 ... and not one record has yet been released, and we don't understand why that's the case."


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @05:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @05:28AM (#393351)

    > Maybe it's better that they come out after the election.

    They will be yet another non-story. They were collected off the email servers at State and other parts of the government so she explicitly wasn't responsible for preserving them. But Benghazi! or whatever....

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @05:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @05:31AM (#393352)

    Amazingly incorrect. These are emails from and to Clinton and never made it past the scrubbing before being turned over to the State.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @12:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @12:07PM (#393440)

      >> They were collected off the email servers at State and other parts of the government so she explicitly wasn't responsible for preserving them.
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      > Amazingly incorrect. These are emails from and to Clinton and never made it past the scrubbing before being turned over to the State.

      You say that like you are disputing the original statement. But what you actually claim is exactly the same thing. She scrubbed them from her server, ergo they were "recovered" by the FBI from other systems. Namely the servers on the other end of the email conversations.