Hillary Clinton agrees to hand over private email server to Federal Bureau of Investigation

He also ordered the State Department to ask her aides, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, to turn over their work emails as well.

The latest news only confirms Scott Walker’s line at the GOP debate that “probably the Russian and Chinese government know more about Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server than do the members of the United States Congress”.

The decision advances the investigation into the Democratic presidential front-runner’s use of a private email account as the nation’s top diplomat, and whether classified information was improperly sent via and stored on the home-brew email server she ran from her house in suburban New York City.

Federal investigators have begun looking into the security of Clintons’ email setup amid concerns from the inspector general for the intelligence community that classified information may have passed through the system.

“Department employees circulated these emails on unclassified systems in 2009 and 2011, and ultimately some were forwarded to Secretary Clinton“, Kirby said Tuesday.

“Clinton’s declaration fails to adjust to each Decide Sullivan’s courtroom order and the State Division’s request”, Judicial Watch charged in a information launch Monday. She turned over more than 30,000 e-mails, which are now being vetted and gradually released publicly.

As a result of my directive, approximately 55,000 pages of these emails were produced to the Department on December 5, 2014.

The developments come in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that seeks records about the controversial employment status of Huma Abedin, the former Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)).

That suit was dismissed in March, after the State Department indicated it had no additional records to release.

“All this means is that Hillary Clinton, in the face of FBI scrutiny, has decided she has run out of options”, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement. So Judicial Watch had issued an urgent response Friday warning the court federal records could be destroyed. Since it is classified – and rightly so, I presume – we don’t know what it is.

The statement signed by Clinton was filed in federal court on Monday, and comes with the penalty of perjury if the court determines she purposely falsified any information. “I’m a sure the court will have more questions for her”, said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.