Government lawyers told U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta Tuesday that an undetermined number of the emails among the 30 were not included in the 55000 pages previously provided by Clinton to the State Department. The agency said it would need until the end of September to review the emails and redact potentially classified information before they are released.
The FBIs notes on their investigation into Clintons emails including interviews with her and her staff could be released as early as Wednesday. However the Benghazi emails will take a little longer to be released.
The emails were obtained during the FBIs investigation into the server which concluded with the bureau recommending no criminal charges.
Earlier this month the House Select Committee on Benghazi revealed Clinton used a program called BleachBit to virtually shred deleted emails and prevent them from being recovered before returning her server contents to investigators.
According to Cong. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi Hillarys legal team used BleachBit which according to its software developer can prevent recovery of deleted files.
She and her lawyers had those emails deleted and they didnt just push the delete button; they had them deleted where even God cant read them. You dont use BleachBit for yoga emails or bridesmaids emails. When youre using BleachBit its something you really do not want the world to see."
Clinton as recently as last week has maintained that the only emails that were deleted and not handed over to the State Department from her home-brewed server were personal and related to matters not having to do with her professional Secretary of State duties.
Clinton told CNNs Anderson Cooper last week that: Theres a lot of smoke and no fire."
Gowdy responded in typical fashion:
Its arson. Its pyromania. Its not smoke."According to the AP:
The FBI said it would need until the end of September to review the emails and redact potentially classified information before they are released."
Following the discovery Jason Miller Senior Communications Advisor for Donald Trumps presidential campaign responded saying:
Hillary Clinton swore before a federal court and told the American people she handed over all of her work-related emails. If Clinton did not consider emails about something as important as Benghazi to be work-related one has to wonder what is contained in the other emails she attempted to wipe from her server.
Todays disclosure that 30 additional emails about Benghazi were discovered on Hillary Clintons private server raises additional questions about the more than 30000 emails she deleted."
The Clinton campaign has not commented on the matter.
