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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) by Francis on Friday August 26 2016, @02:54PM

    by Francis (5544) on Friday August 26 2016, @02:54PM (#393508)

    He's up against the velcro candidate. He'll do well, he might even win. The fact that coming into the conventions Clinton was only 5% up on him speaks volumes about how incompetent and narcissistic she is. She should have been killing him by then. Bernie was killing it, but we couldn't have that because the elitists in the Beltway Bubble thought that running the ultimate insider during an anti-establishment cycle was a brilliant move.

    And then to skip over Biden for somebody who isn't even remotely qualified to be President is astonishing. The woman is too stupid to figure out how to secure her emails, and we want to let her be President?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @05:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @05:07PM (#393574)

    > The fact that coming into the conventions Clinton was only 5% up on him speaks volumes about how incompetent and narcissistic she is.

    Or... it speaks volumes about the kind of people who care about elections before the conventions. If you've been paying attention over the many election cycles you've been alive for, you know that primary voters are, to put it mildly, opinionated. But I'm thinking you might be a little too ... opinionated ... to be particularly observant.