WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has turned over 44 previously-unreleased Hillary Clinton email exchanges that the Democratic presidential nominee failed to include among the 30,000 private messages she turned over to the government last year. They show her interacting with lobbyists, political and Clinton Foundation donors and business interests as secretary of state.
The conservative legal group Judicial Watch obtained the emails as part of its lawsuit against the State Department. They cover Clinton’s first three months as secretary of state in early 2009, a period for which Clinton did not turn over any emails to the State Department last year. The government found the newly disclosed messages during a search of agency computer files from longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
In one instance, Clinton exchanged messages with a senior Morgan Stanley investment executive whom she met with later that year at her office in Washington. They were among 246 pages of Abedin messages turned over to Judicial Watch.
Clinton campaign officials did not immediately answer questions about the issue.
The emails are separate from a larger batch of several thousand work-related emails that FBI officials recovered from Clinton’s private server. Clinton’s legal team turned over more than 30,000 emails from her server to the State Department last March but only after deleting another 30,000 messages that Clinton’s team deemed private and personal. The FBI plans to turn over the reconstructed Clinton emails to the State Department for public release.
The new Clinton emails include a February 2009 message to her from Stephen Roach, then-chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, saying he planned to testify to Congress that week and was “happy to help in any way I can.” Roach later met with Clinton over the summer for 30 minutes, according to Clinton calendars obtained by The Associated Press.
In another email, Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, informed her that National Security Agency and State Department officials discussed an attempt to develop a modified blackberry for Clinton that might be used when she worked in a restricted State Department office that did not allow private phones.
Clinton called the development “good news,” but she continued using a private Blackberry tied to her private server.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Lee contributed to this report.
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The clear implication in the headline and article is that Clinton did something wrong in not turning over the e-mails. The media should do better, especially since James Comey said the following:
Judicial Watch clearly wants to portray this as mendacious or malicious, when the FBI clearly notes that there was no evidence of ill intent. Media should be reporting that in these stories, and not just the implication Judicial Watch desires.
The steady drip, drip, drip of crumbs from the nothing burger won’t amount to a hill of beans by election day.
And just how many cliches can I stuff into one sentence?
And I should get all concerny-wermy over this ‘revelation’ that the SOS has e-mail exchanges with ‘big shots’, exactly, why?
AP really is obsessed with this. The death of journalism indeed.
P.S. And I am delighted to know that she qualified for an upgrade to a new Blackberry.
PPS. Judging by the rate of response to this article, very few people here care anymore. I just clicked so that that I could diss AP and pummel them with satirical commentary.
OH come on, she was inarticulate. /s
Fart in the wind —