The State Department published an additional 1,280 pages of official email belonging to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this afternoon as part of a court-ordered effort to produce some of her more recently discovered correspondence before the presidential election.
The documents come from the nearly 15,000 emails the FBI recovered during its investigation into the Democratic nominee's handling of sensitive information on a controversial private email server.
The State Department said today "a significant number are 'near duplicates' of documents previously provided by former Secretary Clinton" which have already been released to the public.
"For instance, a “near duplicate” would be substantively identical to previously released emails but for a top email in the chain stating “Please print,” State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner said in an emailed statement.
Some 5,600 of the 15,000 emails turned up by the FBI have been deemed work-related, but it's not clear how many of them are actually consist of new material. The State Department is under a court order to release another batch of these emails on Friday and the rest will come in monthly, post-election tranches.
But Clinton's emails woes have moved far beyond this highly-controlled process of releasing official correspondence from her private server. For nearly a month now her campaign has been faced with a daily onslaught of hacked emails belonging to her campaign chairman John Podesta.
In addition, the FBI announced last Friday that it has new emails in its possession that may be relevant to its investigation into her handling of classified information on her private server -- essentially reopening a case that everyone thought had been closed on July 5 -- not to mention throwing a huge wrench into the gears just days before the election.
from ABC News: Politics http://ift.tt/2fzP1hO
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