State Department to turn over emails recovered from Clinton server

The Republican Party has called it a “pay-for-play” scheme.

The State Department will release all of the work-related emails that the Federal Bureau of Investigation recovered from Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonClinton pans Trump’s “pessimism” in light of Olympics Weiner: My sexting scandal “quaint” compared to Trump’s controversies Clinton reaches out to millennials in op-ed MORE’s private system, the department confirmed in a recent court filing, eliminating the possibility that the messages will remain secret.

In another 2009 exchange released Tuesday, Band asked Abedin and Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff, to put Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury in touch with a State Department “substance person” on Lebanon.

Clinton’s trustworthiness has been weighting down her campaign, but the former secretary believes this is a result of partisan attacks on her. Band long served as a personal aide to former President Bill Clinton.

“That the Clinton Foundation was calling in favors barely 3 months into Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department is deeply troubling and it is yet another reminder of the conflicts of interest and unethical wheeling and dealing she’d bring to the White House, ” RNC spokesman Michael Short said in an e-mail. Judicial Watch has sought the emails as part of a lawsuit against the State Department. But it has dragged on thanks to the Justice Department under Barack Obama dragging its feet on releasing them to the public or alternately prosecuting Clinton for her use of a private email server for classified documents.

FBI Director James Comey said last month that the agency found “thousands” of emails from Clinton’s server that were work-related and deleted and had not been turned over to the State Department.

Judicial Watch has about a dozen ongoing FOIA lawsuits against the State Department on the email issue.

Clinton was fiercely criticized by her political opponents after the remarks because they directly contradicted her previous assertion that she had provided all her official email. This latest dump makes it clear some of those deleted emails dealt with matters completely unrelated to innocuous topics like yoga trousers or her daughter’s wedding. “Others we found by reviewing the archived government e-mail accounts of people who had been government employees at the same time as Secretary Clinton, including high-ranking officials at other agencies, people with whom a Secretary of State might naturally correspond”.