Calls to seize the thumb drive that contains Hillary Clinton’s work-related emails spread to a courtroom Wednesday when a federal judge was asked to consider taking the drive into custody.
Larry Klayman, an outspoken critic of the Clintons and numerous other public figures, filed a motion Wednesday in a racketeering case he brought against the former first family earlier this year in which he asked the court to seize the stored emails held by David Kendall, Clinton’s attorney.
Concern over Kendall’s possession of the emails has grown in the wake of an inspector general memo that indicated the batch likely contains hundreds of classified documents.
Clinton has repeatedly insisted she never sent or received anything marked classified at the time on the private server she had installed in her Chappaqua, N.Y., home.
But dozens of the emails that have been released to the public so far have been classified, raising questions about her campaign’s claims that no sensitive material resided on the server.
Critics have pressed the State Department on why it is allowing Kendall to retain copies of records now known to be classified while denying a barrage of external requests for the documents, including one from the Intelligence Community inspector general.
The State Department’s only response has been to assure the public that Kendall’s office has been examined by the FBI for security reasons.
