State ordered to review 15K new Clinton docs

Lawyers for the department told U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg on Monday that they anticipate processing and releasing the first batch of these new emails in mid-October, raising the prospect that new messages sent or received by Clinton could become public just before November’s election. Clinton’s additional use of a personal computer server at her home, however, broke State Department rules, an internal watchdog found.

The new materials include previously unreleased work-related emails Hillary Clinton failed to turn over to the State Department.

The disclosures also cast new doubts on Clinton’s past claim that she turned over all her work-related email from her private server to the State Department for eventual release to the public.

The 14,900 emails are just part of thousands the Federal Bureau of Investigation has turned over, after it took control of Mrs. Clinton’s secret email server.

“No matter how this group tries to mischaracterize these documents, the fact remains that Hillary Clinton never took action as Secretary of State because of donations to the Clinton Foundation”, he said.

The FBI found Mrs Clinton was “extremely careless” with sensitive information by using the private server but recommended against bringing charges against her.

The charitable foundation has been scrutinized throughout Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, but the organization has faced greater scrutiny since emails were newly uncovered showing a top Clinton Foundation donor seeking access to a top diplomat when Clinton was secretary of state. When it didn’t happen, Doug Band, a Clinton Foundation official (and later, Huma Abedin’s employer at Teneo) intervened. According to Judicial Watch, which cites the Clinton Foundation’s webpage, in 2005 he committed to establishing the Crown Prince’s International Scholarship Program for the Clinton Global Initiative.

On Saturday, May 16, 2009, mobile communications executive and political activist Jill Iscol wrote to Clinton, “Please advise to whom I should forward Jacqueline Novogratz’s request [for a meeting with the secretary of state]”.

Powell and aides to his successor as secretary of state in the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice, received some classified information via personal email accounts, Reuters has reported.

“State has not yet had the opportunity to complete a review of the documents to determine whether they are agency records or if they are duplicative of documents State has already produced through the Freedom of Information Act” said Toner, declining further comment.

Judicial Watch lawyer Lauren Burke told Boasberg that the proposed schedule is too slow and pressed for faster release of the emails from the first disc. The judge ordered the department to focus its efforts on processing the emails from the first disk and to report back to him on its progress by September 22.

The emails released Monday by Judicial Watch also offer more detail about Clinton’s meetings with Daniel Abraham – the SlimFast billionaire, founder of the Center for Middle East Peace and another Clinton Foundation donor.

Abraham is again mentioned in an email dated June 15, 2009, when Abdin writes Clinton, “Danny abraham wants to talk to you about israel, ideally before you see lieberman”.

The emails show that, in these and similar cases, the donors did not always get what they wanted, particularly when they sought anything more than a meeting.