State Department officials will not attempt to search the private server Hillary Clinton turned over to the Justice Department Wednesday, court documents indicate.
“The Department is not currently working with the DOJ, the FBI, or other government agencies to search former Secretary Clinton’s private email server” for records related to a high-profile Freedom of Information Act case, the agency said in filings Friday.
Instead, State Department officials said their search of the personal emails submitted by two of Clinton’s top aides and several agency databases for relevant records was sufficient.
The Justice Department on Wednesday took custody of the server, which has been managed by Platte River Networks since 2013, from a facility in New Jersey after an inspector general revealed emails classified up to “top secret” had been hosted on it.
David Kendall, Clinton’s attorney, surrendered three thumb drives to the Justice Department on Aug. 6, according to filings in the FOIA case brought by Judicial Watch.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, called the filing “woefully deficient.”
“The court, Judicial Watch and the American people are no closer to learning where all of the emails of Hillary and her top aides can be found,” Fitton said. “The State Department refused to answer questions about what is even in its possession.”
The watchdog group is seeking information about the special employment status given to Huma Abedin, Clinton’s former deputy chief of staff, that allowed her to work simultaneously for the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and a consulting firm called Teneo Strategies.
The server given to the Justice Department this week contains no data from Clinton’s time as secretary of state. The emails it once contained were apparently migrated onto another device, which has not yet been identified, in 2013.
