State Department releases batch of Hillary Clinton emails
The State Department has released a batch of emails between Hillary Clinton and her associates sent to and from her private email account.
More than 50 emails appeared on the department's Freedom of Information Act portal on Thursday, and showed her interacting with aides such as Huma Abedin and her then chief of staff Cheryl Mills.
They show her and Abedin used @clintonemail.com addresses to set up travel plans and meetings with foreign dignitaries, as well as requests to print documents such as discussions of aid to Haiti.
Some portions, such as discussion of a call with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in July 2011 and a trip in October 2009, have been largely redacted.
The emails have been declassified as of the end of January, and follow the late December release of another tranche of messages that were stored on the backup program Abedin shared with her husband, disgraced New York congressman Anthony Weiner.
Transparency and conservative groups such as Judicial Watch have sued for emails related to Clinton's work at the State Department.
Her use of a private email server for official business including some classified information became a major focus of her critics during the campaign, though then FBI Director James Comey said that she her actions were "extremely careless" but did not rise to the level of a crime.
Comey announced in a letter to Congress shortly before the 2016 election that investigators were looking into the server again after emails were found on a laptop during the sexting probe into disgraced New York congressman Anthony Weiner, who is married to Abedin.
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President Trump, who says that the investigation into his campaign’s potential collusion with Russia is a “witch hunt” has also berated the FBI for not pushing for a Clinton prosecution.
