State Department officials published 1,038 pages of Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails on Thursday, the first release of her records since her defeat in the presidential race.
The 362 emails, many of which were close copies of records already released by the agency, were recovered by the FBI during its investigation of Clinton’s private server and turned over to the State Department this summer. A federal judge had ordered the agency to publish several smaller batches of FBI-provided emails before the election in order to provide voters with the most information possible, and then to revert to a monthly publishing schedule until the remainder of the records had been processed.
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Clinton turned over roughly 30,000 private emails to the State Department in late 2014 and deleted an equal number of records she deemed personal in nature.
After the FBI began investigating her private server use amid allegations that she mishandled classified information, agents determined thousands of the deleted emails were actually work-related.
Those deleted, work-related emails were given to the State Department after the initial FBI investigation concluded in July.
In late October, FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to Congress indicating his agents had discovered another batch of potentially relevant emails. He closed the inquiry into the new emails a week later, and Democrats have charged that his announcements helped Trump pick up votes at the last minute.
It is unclear whether those records will be included in the Freedom of Information Act lawsuits that mandated the release of the 362 emails on Thursday.
