FBI releases notes from Clinton email investigation

The State Department is involved in dozens of lawsuits over Mrs. Clinton’s department records and is under court-imposed orders to produce documents in a number of those suits.

The FBI released a large batch documents related to its investigation into Clinton’s private email server Friday afternoon. Officials originally said the disc contained 30 emails on Benghazi, but let everyone down when they only found one.

“The State Department voluntarily agreed to produce to Judicial Watch any emails sent or received by Secretary Clinton in her official capacity during her tenure as Secretary of State which are contained within the material turned over by the Federal Bureau of Investigation”, agency spokesman John Kirby said in a statement. Of those, over 9,400 have been deemed personal and therefore not subject to release, the attorney said, while approximately 5,600 are believed to be work-related.

Boasberg ordered the State Department to finish processing about 1,050 pages of material, likely compring fewer than 600 emails, by November 4.

Since 2014, State Department has processed almost 54,000 pages of email records involving Mrs. Clinton at a rate of about 7,000 per month- significantly faster pace than what Judge Boasberg ordered in Friday’s hearing.

This led Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton to lambast the judge’s decision, saying “the American people could be deprived of this information at this essential time”.

In a statement to CNN, State Department Spokesman John Kirby reiterated the State Department’s commitment to release the official emails, and said, “All releasable records and portions of these records will be posted on State’s FOIA website”.

State will release batches of emails on October 7, October 21 and November 4, and then process just 500 pages each month.

The department insisted to judges that officials needed until at least October 14 to sift through the emails.

Similarly, when asked about an email sent discussing a classified drone strike, Sullivan surmised the sender “may have sent this email on an unclassified system because the drone strike could have already hit the news wire”. Those documents will be released incrementally by the State Department to the public-the majority of them after Election Day, a U.S. District Court judge ruled Friday morning. Hillary Clinton long planned to activate the much-vaunted Obama coalition to carry her to the White House.