State Department officials are set to publish roughly 270 pages of Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails mid-Friday afternoon, although some may be duplicates or near-duplicates of records already released by the agency.
The emails are among the 5,600 work-related emails recovered by the FBI during its year-long probe of Clinton’s server.
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The former secretary of state’s staff deleted those records off her server before handing over 30,000 emails to the State Department in 2014, claiming the deleted documents were personal in nature.
Roughly half of the deleted emails are copies of records included in the original batch of 30,000. That means 2,800 of the emails set for release over the coming days will be never-before-seen documents that Clinton’s team attempted to withhold from the government.
The new emails, scheduled for release Friday afternoon, will emerge thanks to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by conservative-leaning Judicial Watch. The pages released today will be some subset of the 350 pages of emails that State agreed to screen and release in the Judicial Watch case.
Through a separate lawsuit brought by Jason Leopold of Vice News, the State Department has agreed to process 1,850 pages of Clinton’s emails by Election Day.
