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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."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @03:51PM
Please name one person, literally one person, who was prosecuted for gross negligence with handling classified information.
We can find numerous people who (for better or worse) were prosecuted for intentional distribution of classified information. We can find numerous examples of people losing security clearances for gross negligence with handling classified information (and lost a job or whatever as a result).
However, to the best of my knowledge, it is unprecedented for somebody to be criminally prosecuted for a mistake with handling classified information... which is exactly like the FBI said.
If you know an example, I'd love to hear it. I dislike Hillary and would love to add criminal mishandling of classified information to her laundry list of problems... but I can't do so in good faith. Can you?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @05:06PM
Irrelevant. Even granting you your point for purposes of the argument, new laws would be pointless if they were not enforced due to such "enforcement being unprecidented", as new laws would be by definition.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @06:26PM
J.J. Smith [politico.com]. Pled out to two other felonies.
If Clinton would accept a plea deal that included pleading guilty to a lesser felony in mishandling classified information, that would be fine by me. She wouldn't even have to serve prison time as far as I'm concerned, the admission of felony guilt would be sufficient for my purposes.
I'd love to know if we've ever had a President who was actually convicted of a felony before.