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: 2) by HiThere on Friday August 26 2016, @05:36PM
It's not unprecedented. That she broke the law, however, appears clear...but that's based on a collection of slanted news stories which are all slanted either to achieve a political goal or to increase the number of readers (or clicks), so I don't know how trustworthy that appearance is.
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(Score: 1) by Francis on Friday August 26 2016, @09:06PM
Nope, if you actually look at what she's done without the bias, it's pretty freaking clear that she's a felon.
The continual discovery of emails that weren't handed over to law enforcement is more than ample evidence of obstruction of justice. But, I have no faith in them actually bringing the appropriate charges as they already set precedence by refusing to prosecute her over her mishandling of classified documents.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday August 27 2016, @04:40AM
She's not a felon, because she hasn't been convicted. And there are precedents...which were also illegal.
Saying that it's unprecedented is as false as denying that it was illegal.
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(Score: 1) by Francis on Saturday August 27 2016, @05:12AM
She's a felon, she already admitted to doing things that constitute felonies, so the whole bit about the trial is moot.
We know that she stored and retained classified documents on an unsecured and unapproved of server. That right there is a felony, as is the obstruction of justice that stems from her destroying thousands of unreviewed emails.