Republicans stepped up their attacks Monday on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and pointed to newly released messages to allege that foreign donors to the Democratic presidential nominee’s family charity got preferential treatment from her department.
Congressional Republicans issued subpoenas to three technology companies that either made or serviced the server located in the basement of Clinton’s New York home. The subpoenas were issued Monday by House Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith of Texas with the support of Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
In a joint statement, Smith and Johnson said the move was necessary after the three companies — Platte River Networks, Datto Inc. and SECNAP Network Security Corp. — declined to voluntarily answer questions to determine whether Clinton’s private server met government standards for record-keeping and security.
The subpoenas were among several developments Monday that showed a new GOP emphasis on Clinton’s emails after the FBI recently closed its yearlong probe into whether she and her aides mishandled sensitive government information that flowed through her server. The FBI recommended against criminal charges.
The State Department is now reviewing nearly 15,000 previously undisclosed emails recovered as part of the FBI investigation. Lawyers for the department told U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg on Monday that they anticipate processing and releasing the first batch of these new emails in mid-October, raising the prospect that new messages sent or received by Clinton could become public just before November’s election.
Boasberg is overseeing production of the emails as part of a federal public-records lawsuit filed by the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch. Representing the State Department, Justice Department lawyer Lisa Olson told the judge that officials do not yet know how many of the emails are work-related, rather than personal.
Clinton, who was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, had claimed she deleted only personal emails prior to returning more than 55,000 pages of her work-related messages to the State Department last year. The department has publicly released most of those emails, although some have been withheld because they contain information considered sensitive to national security.
The thousands of previously undisclosed Clinton emails obtained by the FBI came from the accounts of other people she communicated with or were recovered through the bureau’s forensic examination of her old server.
Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon reiterated Monday that Clinton provided all the work-related emails she had “in her possession” when the State Department asked for copies in 2014. “If the State Department determines any of them to be work-related, then obviously we support those documents being released publicly as well,” he said.
Olson said the department earlier this month received seven discs containing “tens of thousands” of emails Clinton sent or received during her tenure as the nation’s top diplomat. The first disc, labeled by the FBI as containing nonclassified emails not previously disclosed by Clinton, contains about 14,900 documents, she said.
She said it was “extremely ambitious” for the agency to complete its review and begin releasing the first batches of emails to Judicial Watch by Oct. 14, given the volume of messages.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
It’s about time to stop gathering INFO and start enforcing the law! It is so ludicrous to think that so many charges can be made against a person and all the initiative is concentrated on obtaining more information. They already have enough info to put them all before a firing squad! So, let’s get this show on the road and let everything else play out in court!
CBS, NBC and ABC hardly give any time to this story. If it was Trump then they would be having bulletins on.
One of Trump’s first actions as President will be firing the FBI Director and bringing criminal charges against him. At least this is what should happen, in my opinion.
Hillary would have been better off if she had been straightforward back in 2013. This could turn out to be a huge problem for the Clinton campaign if some bombshell email is release a week or two before the election.
Slick Hil-liar-y and slick Willie are the “New Copper Red Pan” compared to the old “Teflon Don’s”…*Those who know, — would know.. They will never stand trial.. ‘Cause they IS our definition of what ‘is’, actually is, folks!.. Lol. PS:*Rome is burning again, in case you didn’t notice.. Go figure..
Maybe the rumours are true that Hillary is physically washed up and likely may not even be fit enough to stand let alone actually be capable of being the president …… unless Bill then runs the show by proxy behind the scenes with Hillary fronting the operations.
@Dez: Think the Presidential debates MIGHT be a little stressful on Hitlery????
When The Donald gets in Hiitlery’s face about her numerous lies and various scandals, will her deteriorating health suddenly take a turn for the worse??? Will the lame street media step in and call FOUL, as if asking tough question to a potential President of the United States, whether man or woman (in Obammies case we still are unsure) were out of the political correct realm.
If she can’t stand up to The Donald’s questioning, she sure as HE double hockey sticks couldn’t be counted on the stand up to a foreign dictator.
Germany;s Merckel has made some very, very poor dicisions relating to her Muslim immigration policies in that country. Hindsight being 20/20, I suspect the German people feel that they made a very grave mistake in placing her in the position that she is in.
Will America make the same mistake??????
yep!!!
It appears that with Billy Boy Clinton’s health…probably AIDS….he could only run it from his Grave…
Hillary’s days, just like everyone else are numbered and then she has a meeting face to face with Almighty God who knows ALL her sins and wickedness and she will be speechless as she stands there GUILTY in all her sins and He pronounces eternal damnation upon her and casts her into eternal darkness forever.
My guess is that she’s going to have that meeting sooner than she thinks.
Whatever happens in this election, I know that God will have His will done in all matters upon the earth.
The entire world is gone to hell and mankind is soon to see what all this talk and warning of the judgment day is all about!
Well stated…
VERY WELL stated!
Hillary Clinton is by far the most dishonest female person running for office that all of our AIR TIME is devoted to her EMAIL SCANDALS, instead of finding out how she will run our country, NOW with all this CRAP about her other money SCANDALS.
Can she really be trusted to make sound decisions and judgments to KEEP you and all of us in this great country really safe and sound. I DON’T trust her even running a McDonalds, she might learn how to FLIP burgers, but what happens when she forgets to flip YOUR BURGER and then it is cooked WELL DONE. I think our government needs to be OVERHAULED TOO. I could go on & on, but my TIME IS DEVOTED TO DONALD TRUMP 110%, Lets show him WE REALLY CARE ABOUT HIM AND WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER THE MOST. KEEP AMERICA SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN.