The State Department is set to release a new batch of Hillary Clinton’s private emails Monday amid a broadening FBI investigation into whether the former secretary of state mishandled classified information on her private server.
State officials have said they plan to release “6,106 or more pages” of emails Monday, according to court documents filed in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Vice News that has forced the agency to publish Clinton’s emails on a rolling basis.
The agency fell short of a court-ordered benchmark for the production of emails at the end of July, blaming the shortfall on intelligence community officials who helped review the records for sensitive information.
Intelligence community reviewers began assisting the State Department after two inspectors general raised concerns about classified material that was found among a small sample of Clinton’s emails.
Clinton’s campaign has attempted to downplay the controversy in recent weeks, as her poll numbers have began to reflect public skepticism over her private email use.
Clinton has claimed she never sent or received anything that was marked classified at the time.
But intelligence experts have warned that high-level officials are still responsible for handling classified information properly, regardless of whether it is marked as such.
