Townhall: The department on Friday posted 1,589 pages of Clinton’s emails on its website, bringing to 48,535 the number of pages released as part of its ongoing release of the former secretary’s correspondence. The last batch of the roughly 55,000 work-related emails Clinton turned over to the department is scheduled to be released on Monday in accordance with a court order.
In the latest release, portions of 88 documents were deemed to be classified at the “confidential” level, the lowest classification category. The department said none of those emails was marked classified at the time they were sent. More here.
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State Dept. Hands 1,600 Documents From Hillary Clinton’s Office To Benghazi Committee
Alex Plitsas/Opinion: The U.S. State Department Friday afternoon turned over 1,600 pages of never before seen documentation from the Office of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding the Benghazi terrorist attacks to the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
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#BREAKING: Today the State Dept turned over more than 1,600 pages of new documents related to former Secretary Clinton and Libya.Sources from the Select Committee say it first asked for these records related to Benghazi and Libya nearly a year ago, and is the first to receive them now — four months after the hearing with former Secretary Clinton. In a court filing in response to a FOIA suit filed by the watch dog group “Judicial Watch”, dated January 8, 2016, the State Department claimed it only recently, “located additional sources of documents that originated within the Office of the Secretary that are reasonably likely to contain records responsive to Plaintiff’s request.”
The State Department defines the “Office of the Secretary” as being “comprised of the Secretary’s Chief of Staff, the Counselor of the Department, Deputy Chief of Staff, the Secretary’s secretary, the Executive Assistant, two special assistants, the Secretary’s scheduler, staff assistant, and two personal assistants. This staff handles all of the day-to-day matters of the Secretary, including meetings at the Department, functions in Washington and throughout the country, and travel around the world.”
This latest revelation once again proves that the investigation into the terrorist attacks against the U.S. state Department Complex in Benghazi, Libya is not over and that Democrats who claim that the event has already been investigated in its entirety are just plain wrong. It also speaks to the professional and meticulous manner in which Rep. Gowdy has conducted this investigation and should give confidence to the American people that he will get to the bottom of what actually happened before, during, and after the terrorist attack in Benghazi – to include what role Hillary Clinton played in the Administration’s failures.
According to the Select Committee, the State Department has still not turned over other records it has been requesting for more than year. The fact that the Obama Administration has withheld these records until this time, and is still withholding more, is suspect given the timing of the U.S. presidential election. What else is the Obama administration hiding from the committee and the American people?
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Feds release more Clinton emails on eve of South Carolina primary
TheHill: The State Department on Friday released 881 new emails from Hillary Clinton’s personal server, a day before Democrats in South Carolina head to the polls.
The new release brings the total number of classified emails on the former secretary of State’s machine up to more than 1,800. The vast majority of those classified emails were listed at the lowest level, that of “confidential,” but nearly two dozen were classified as “secret” and another 22 were deemed “top secret” — the highest level of classification.
Those top secret emails were deemed too dangerous to release to the public, even in a redacted form.
None of the 88 classified emails in Friday’s dump were classified at the time they were sent, a State Department official said.
Friday’s release is the second-to-last from the State Department, which has been laboring to make Clinton’s emails public since last May.
Under the terms of a court order earlier this month, the department will need to publish the very last of the roughly 35,000 supposedly work-related emails on Monday.
Federal officials planned to work through the weekend to reach that goal, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said earlier in the day.
“We’re still reviewing them – a lot of them, frankly,” Toner told reporters at the State Department. “Going to be working hard through the weekend.”
On Saturday, Clinton’s presidential campaign is hoping to cement its front-runner status with a strong showing in South Carolina, where polls show her with a significant lead over rival Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Sanders has repeatedly refused to attack Clinton over her emails, but Republicans have been less kind. Critics of Clinton allege that her unconventional use of a personal email account on a private server throughout her time in office posed a major threat to national security and skirted federal recordkeeping laws.
