A U.S. judge ordered the State Department on Thursday to
release by Sept. 13 any emails it finds between Hillary Clinton and the
White House from the week of the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, among
the thousands of additional emails uncovered by federal investigators.
The order came after the Federal Bureau of Investigation gave the
department a disc earlier this month containing 14,900 emails to and
from Clinton and other documents it said it had recovered that she did
not return to the government.
Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, has been criticized for
using an unauthorized private email system run from a server in the
basement of her home while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013,
a decision she says was wrong and that she regrets.
The issue has hung over her campaign for the White House and raised questions among voters about her trustworthiness.
Judge William Dimitrouleas of the U.S. District Court in Southern
Florida made his order in response to a request by the conservative
watchdog group Judicial Watch, which is suing the State Department for
Clinton-era records under freedom of information laws.
Spokesmen for Clinton did not respond to requests for comment.
At least one other judge has said the department will eventually have
to release all the newly recovered work emails, and at least some are
expected to appear before the Nov. 8 presidential election.
After the system’s existence became more widely known, Clinton
returned what she said were all her work emails to the State Department
in 2014, and the department released them in batches to the public, some
30,000 in all.
The FBI took her server in 2015 after it was discovered she had sent
and received classified government secrets through the system, which the
government bans.
Clinton has said she did not know the information was classified at the time.
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