Judge orders release of “remaining” Clinton emails, 550 expected Saturday

Clinton’s critics have asserted that the overlap between the State Department, her family’s foundation, and Teneo during her tenure created potential conflicts of interest.

However, late Wednesday, a top State Department official said in a sworn declaration that the agency has made significant progress in its review of the remaining Clinton emails and could now begin releasing a portion of them on Saturday, February 13.

A US government official told Fox News that at least 12 of the accounts belonged to Hillary Clinton’s aides.

During the years Clinton served as secretary of state, the foundation was led by her husband, former president Bill Clinton. This delay seemed to confuse Contreras at Tuesday’s status hearing, as he repeatedly asked Prince to explain why documents that are past the department’s review process could take so long to put up for public review.

Clinton has landed in controversy over the past year and had difficulty explaining her use of a private email server instead of a State Department email address.

Clinton returned about 54,000 pages of her emails to the department in 2014, and her staff have said that an unknown number of her emails have been lost.

A foundation representative, who spoke to the newspaper on the condition of anonymity, said the State Department’s initial document request had been narrowed by investigators and that the foundation is not the focus of the probe.

An unnamed US government source told the news outlet that accounts belonging to top Clinton aides Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan and Philippe Reines handled some of the 22 top secret messages. On the campaign trail, Clinton is rarely seen in public without Abedin somewhere nearby.

Fox News has asked the State Department to comment on the email accounts that shared the highly classified information, and how it was that Kennedy did not understand the “scope” of Clinton’s personal email being used for government business.

The IG has investigated Abedin before.

Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders has avoided these allegations throughout his campaign, though last spring, Sanders expressed worries about the Clinton Foundation being part of a political machine “dominated by money”. At times, IG inquiries result in criminal charges, but sometimes they lead to administrative review, civil penalties or reports that have no legal consequences. The Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee are conducting investigations of their own. Unlike federal prosecutors, inspectors general have the authority to subpoena documents without seeking approval from a grand jury or a judge.