15K New Clinton Emails Will Be Out Before Election

State Department reviewing another newly discovered batch
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Aug 22, 2016 1:40 PM CDT
15K New Clinton Emails Will Be Out Before Election
Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign event in Scranton, Pa.   (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

The State Department said Monday it is reviewing nearly 15,000 previously undisclosed emails recovered as part of the FBI's now-closed investigation into the handling of sensitive information that flowed through Hillary Clinton's private home server. Lawyers for the department told US 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 new messages sent or received by Democratic nominee could become public just before November's presidential election, reports the AP. The judge is overseeing production of the emails as part of a federal public-records lawsuit filed by the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch.

Representing the State Department, Justice Department lawyer Lisa Olson told Boasberg that officials do not yet know what portion of the emails is work-related rather than personal. Olson told the judge that State earlier this month received seven disks containing "tens of thousands" of emails Clinton sent or received during her tenure as the nation's top diplomat. The first disk, labeled by the FBI as containing non-classified emails not previously disclosed by Clinton, contains about 14,900 documents, Olson said. The second disk is labeled as emails containing classified information. 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 Sept. 22. (More Hillary Clinton stories.)

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