FOIA Advisor

FOIA News: State Department to release Clinton emails recovered by FBI

FOIA News (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

State Department to turn over emails recovered from Clinton server

By Laura Koran, CNN, Aug. 15, 2016

The State Department has agreed to provide the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch with all official emails sent or received by Hillary Clinton that were recovered from her private email server by the FBI investigation.

The agreement was announced in a court filing and State Department Director of Press Relations Elizabeth Trudeau confirmed the decision in a statement to CNN. The State Department's attorneys will provide a proposed production schedule next week.

    The State Department has not said whether it will release these emails to the public, as it did with the nearly 55,000 pages of work-related emails Clinton provided last year.

    Read more here.