State Department officials must fast-track a review of 14,900
emails that were recovered by the FBI from Hillary Clinton's private
server, a federal judge said Monday.
The order came as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit
filed by conservative-leaning Judicial Watch over records related to
Clinton's longtime confidante Huma Abedin.
According to the order, the State Department must quickly
examine the deleted records for sensitive material before they can be
provided to Judicial Watch.
Judicial Watch could then provide access to the emails once it
receives them. An agency spokesman said last week that officials had not
yet decided whether the new emails would also be published online, as
were the roughly 30,000 emails Clinton submitted in late 2014.
Clinton previously claimed to have turned over all work-related
emails to the State Department. However, a year-long FBI investigation
uncovered thousands of official communications that Clinton's team
scrubbed from her personal network.
The same FOIA case that forced the State Department to reveal
the 14,900 previously undisclosed documents will compel Clinton to
answer written questions about her email practices under oath. A judge
stopped short of ordering her to submit for a deposition last week in a
ruling that allowed Judicial Watch attorneys to serve the Democratic
nominee with a questionnaire.
Six of Clinton's current and former aides were forced to testify about the email network in May and June.
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