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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: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Friday August 26 2016, @07:28AM

    by frojack (1554) on Friday August 26 2016, @07:28AM (#393385) Journal

    Obama will "clear the air" and wipe the slate clean with a full presidential pardon, not only for this matter but all other sins over her lifetime. Wait and see. She will be the only candidate in history that is known for a fact to not be guilty of any crime what so ever.

    The election is pre-rigged. Donald has that much right.

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday August 26 2016, @02:13PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday August 26 2016, @02:13PM (#393481)

    A pardon is taken as a tacit admission of guilt, if the person accepts it. If they were innocent, they wouldn't need the pardon to begin with, right?

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    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 26 2016, @04:01PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 26 2016, @04:01PM (#393536) Journal

      In theory - yes.

      How 'bout Snowden? If he were offered a pardon for any and all crimes, real or imagined, do you think he would accept it? Someone wrote a line once that really resonated with me. "An exile may be happy, but he never forgets that he is an exile." Words to that effect. I THINK it was Marion Zimmer Bradley, but don't hold me to that.

      Anyway, if offered a pardon, I think Snowden would be back home in the USA just as fast as he could light a fire under the pilot's ass.