FBI Discovered 15,000 Additional Undisclosed Hillary Clinton Emails

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This seems like a pretty big deal.

The Washington Post reports:

The FBI’s year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server uncovered 14,900 emails and documents from her time as secretary of state that had not been disclosed by her attorneys, and a federal judge on Monday pressed the State Department to begin releasing emails sooner than mid-October as it planned.

Justice Department lawyers said last week that the State Department would review and turn over Clinton’s work-related emails to a conservative legal group. The records are among “tens of thousands” of documents found by the FBI in its probe and turned over to the State Department, Justice Department attorney Lisa Ann Olson said Monday in court.

The 14,900 Clinton documents are nearly 50 percent more than the roughly 30,000 emails that Clinton’s lawyers deemed work-related and returned to the department in December 2014.

In a statement after a hearing at the U.S. district courthouse in Washington, Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said the group was pleased that Boasberg rejected the department’s proposal to begin releasing documents weekly on Oct. 14, ordering it instead to prioritize Clinton’s emails and to return to court Sept. 22 with a new plan.

On Aug. 5, the FBI completed transferring what Comey said were several thousand previously undisclosed work-related Clinton emails that the FBI found in its investigation for the State Department to review and make public. Government lawyers until now had given no details about how many emails the FBI found or when the full set would be released. It is unclear how many documents might be attachments, duplicates or exempt from release for privacy or legal reasons.

Clinton’s lawyers also may have deleted some of the emails as “personal,” Comey said, noting their review relied on header information and search terms, not a line-by-line reading as the FBI conducted.

Indeed, this seems like a very big deal indeed. For some additional analysis, let’s turn to The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza:

If you scrape away all of the spin and the political positioning that Hillary Clinton’s decision to use a private email server has spawned, you are left with these facts:

1. Clinton is the first secretary of state to exclusively use a private email account for official business.

2. She is also the first secretary of state to have a private email server housed at her home.

3. When asked by the State Department to turn over her emails, Clinton had a team of lawyers go through them to separate those that were purely personal and those that touched on some aspect of her professional life. The personal emails were deleted permanently off the server. The professional ones were turned over to the State Department. Here’s how that broke down:

Clinton deleted more emails than she turned over. Her team never actually read all of the emails, skimming subject lines instead. And there was never anyone outside of Clinton’s direct orbit brought in to oversee the process. The essence of Clinton’s argument regarding this email-sorting process was: Trust me. As in, my team of lawyers found all of the emails that were even tangentially tied to my day job as the nation’s top diplomat and turned them over to the State Department.

To be clear: Clinton has already been cleared of any official wrongdoing in the matter by Comey. And Comey and the FBI were aware of this latest batch of emails — hell, they found them! — when he rendered his judgment on Clinton.

But, the whole thing just makes it harder and harder for Clinton to sell the idea that her process for sorting emails into professional and private piles was effective. And that raises the possibility that Clinton got rid of lots of emails that she shouldn’t have via a process that was something short of transparent. Which is a very bad look for someone who is currently the clear front-runner to be the next president.

But hey, when it comes to the Clintons, we all know…

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Interview with Wikileaks’ Julian Assange – Hillary Clinton Expands the Overton Window of Corruption

Clinton Cash Author Reports – “The Strange Gaps in Hillary Clinton’s Email Traffic”

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In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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2 thoughts on “FBI Discovered 15,000 Additional Undisclosed Hillary Clinton Emails”

  1. I work in finance. Below CEO-level.

    If I were to set up a private email server and, due to it’s convenience, proceed to conduct all of my business via said server, my company would terminate me without a second thought.

    Furthermore, FINRA would sanction the hell out of me with fines and possibly bar me from the industry.

    If I began deleting ANY emails (believe that’s called spoliation) after it came to light, I would probably be prosecuted by the SEC.

    Now, let’s talk data… while Jane Doe’s IRA holdings are of a sensitive nature to Jane and myself, there is surely no national security interest in the data itself.

    I suppose one could use said data to launder money or for identity theft that could aid in terrorism or something but that’s many, many steps (and other criminal acts) away.

    Yet, I would get HAMMERED over it.

    But my name ain’t Clinton, it’s -Ra.

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