State Department officials published roughly 5,500 pages of Hillary Clinton’s private emails Thursday afternoon in the eighth of nine court-ordered document releases slated for the end of each month.
The agency fell short of a court order compelling them to produce nearly 9,000 pages of Clinton’s private emails by the end of December. Instead, the agency will make another production of emails “sometime next week,” State Department officials said Thursday morning. That production will contain 2,900 pages of additional emails.
While the discovery of Clinton’s private email use rocked the Democratic primary in the spring and summer, the former secretary of state has since recovered from the harsh scrutiny. Her poll numbers rebounded after she delivered a dominating performance during an October hearing before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, when she faced multiple questions about her email network.
However, she must still contend with an open FBI investigation into her handling of potentially classified material. Law enforcement officials have given no indication that they plan to slow or stop the probe in the new year.
By Jan. 29, the State Department will have released roughly 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton and her legal team deemed work-related. She deleted an equal number of records she characterized as personal.
FBI officials have reportedly found a way to recover some deleted emails off the private server they apprehended in August, although authorities have remained mum on whether those records were personal or work-related.
Clinton swore under penalty of perjury in September that she turned over all work-related communications.
