The State Department is preparing to turn over emails the FBI discovered through its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email set-up to a conservative watchdog group.
A court filing late last week says the State Department and Judicial Watch, which has fought for the release of Mrs. Clinton’s private emails, intend to negotiate a proposed production schedule for the emails recovered from Mrs. Clinton’s private server and are set for a status conference on Aug. 22.
The filing says that on Aug. 5, the FBI completed transmission to the State Department of documents it recovered during its investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email system as secretary of state.
The filing also says the State Department has “voluntarily agreed” to produce “non-exempt” agency records responsive to Judicial Watch’s open records request contained in that information.
“In our filing, we advised that we would be prepared to suggest a production schedule to the court on August 22nd,” State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said in a statement to Fox News.
Previously-unreleased emails Judicial Watch posted last week showed Mrs. Clinton and top aides exchanging messages with the then-chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and a top Clinton Foundation official and donor.
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FBI Director James B. Comey declined last month to recommend criminal charges in the case, but said Mrs. Clinton and her aides were “extremely careless” in her private email set-up.
He said the FBI discovered “several thousand” work-related emails that were not in the batch of the approximately 30,000 that Mrs. Clinton turned over to the State Department in 2014.
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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