Posted On: 08/22/2016 1:13:17 PM
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State Department Ordered to Expedite Clinton E-Mail Review
Judge acts on almost 15,000 documents recovered by the FBI
Sept. 22 deadline set to process e-mails; release not set
A judge ordered the State Department to expedite its review of almost 15,000 previously undisclosed documents recovered by the FBI from Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail servers.
U.S. District James Boasberg on Monday ordered the State Department to process those recovered records by Sept. 22 and report back to him that day. He didn’t set a schedule for public release. The department raised the possibility of a phased release starting Oct. 14, which left open how many would be disclosed before the Nov. 8 presidential election.
FBI Director James Comey said last month that the agency had found what he described as “several thousand work-related e-mails” that were not among the 30,000 she had turned over from her time as secretary of state.
While Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, has said her lawyers turned over all work-related e-mails and destroyed the remaining personal communications, Comey has said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation recovered documents from several servers that Clinton had used for her private e-mails as well as by scanning the archives of other U.S. officials.
He also said that Clinton’s lawyers had searched only the headings at the top of e-mails to find relevant messages, while agents looked at the entire communications. He said the FBI found no evidence that work-related e-mails were intentionally deleted to conceal them.
The judge acted in one of several suits filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that has been pursuing release of Clinton e-mails.
Judge acts on almost 15,000 documents recovered by the FBI
Sept. 22 deadline set to process e-mails; release not set
A judge ordered the State Department to expedite its review of almost 15,000 previously undisclosed documents recovered by the FBI from Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail servers.
U.S. District James Boasberg on Monday ordered the State Department to process those recovered records by Sept. 22 and report back to him that day. He didn’t set a schedule for public release. The department raised the possibility of a phased release starting Oct. 14, which left open how many would be disclosed before the Nov. 8 presidential election.
FBI Director James Comey said last month that the agency had found what he described as “several thousand work-related e-mails” that were not among the 30,000 she had turned over from her time as secretary of state.
While Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, has said her lawyers turned over all work-related e-mails and destroyed the remaining personal communications, Comey has said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation recovered documents from several servers that Clinton had used for her private e-mails as well as by scanning the archives of other U.S. officials.
He also said that Clinton’s lawyers had searched only the headings at the top of e-mails to find relevant messages, while agents looked at the entire communications. He said the FBI found no evidence that work-related e-mails were intentionally deleted to conceal them.
The judge acted in one of several suits filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that has been pursuing release of Clinton e-mails.
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