Most Clinton emails to be released after election

Most of Clinton’s emails recovered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation will reportedly not be made public until after the United States presidential elections in November. The classified documents were left behind when the aide and Clinton left the room.

After the judge’s order, Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said that “the American people could be deprived of this information at this essential time”.

The revelations came in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch.

The other 9,400 emails are personal in nature and won’t be released.

Under the order issued Friday, in a lawsuit brought by the conservative group, Judicial Watch, the State Department will release 350 pages of emails by October 7, 350 pages by October 21, and another 350 by November 4. But it’s up to the government agency which emails will be at the top of the stack. Processing the documents would involve reviewing them to decide what can be released.

Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch, the group spearheading the lawsuit to obtain Clinton’s emails in court, blasted the announcement. The public deserves to know what is in those emails, well before November 8, and the State Department should not continue dragging its feet on producing them.

It was Judicial Watch’s lawsuit that drove Boasberg’s ruling. She has admitted to erasing 33,000 emails.

The FBI, however, recovered thousands of messages from a homebrew server that she used exclusively while serving in the Obama administration.

This batch includes the 15,000 emails the State Department miraculously found after the FBI finished its investigation into Hillary’s private email server. The FBI closed that investigation without recommending any charges. Another 5,600 emails were deemed work-related but State Department attorneys warned that up to 50% of those are duplicates of emails that Mrs. Clinton already turned over.

Separately, court documents filed in the same case on Thursday evening show members of the House Oversight Committee were provided sealed copies of records submitted to a federal judge by Bryan Pagliano, the Clinton IT aide who received an immunity deal from the Justice Department.

State Department spokesman John Kirby insisted to the Journal on Friday that numerous newly recovered email conversations consisted of message threads that originally included Clinton but later dropped her from discussion.

A “substantial number” of the emails are duplicates or near duplicates of messages that Clinton’s lawyers handed over to the department, which have already been made public with redactions, State Department lawyers said.