Justice Department attorneys said Wednesday that the FBI handed
over two discs of Hillary Clinton's emails in late July: one that stored
the roughly 15,000 deleted emails that agents are presently reviewing
for release, and another previously undisclosed disc that stored an
unidentified number of classified records.
The revelation came in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit
filed by Jason Leopold of Vice News, the same case that already forced
the release of the 30,000 emails Clinton submitted in late 2014.
Government lawyers did not specify whether the classified emails
provided by the FBI were included in the original 30,000 records or
were among those Clinton and her lawyers deleted.
But the revelation seems to indicate that the classified emails
are a new batch of records that hadn't been disclosed before, as they
were provided alongside other records that the former secretary of state
scrubbed from her server.
State Department attorneys on Tuesday admitted the agency had
unearthed 30 Benghazi-related emails among the records recovered by the
FBI.
Clinton's team pushed back by arguing that many of the 15,000 emails provided by the FBI were likely personal.
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