Clinton Emails: 305 Messages Need Further Review, Court Documents Say
Source: ABC News
Aug 17, 2015, 4:15 PM ET
By JUSTIN FISHEL
Intelligence community officials involved in the review of Hillary Clinton’s emails have flagged 305 messages for further inspection, new court documents released Monday say. The emails were found in a sampling of 20 percent of the total 30,000 emails.
The documents were filed by State Department lawyers in Washington DC federal court as part of an ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. They were intended to provide an explanation as to why the State Department did not meet the requirement to release 15 percent of her 30,000 emails by July 31.
The State Department lawyers did not specify the nature of the emails nor did they say specifically that they may be secret in nature, only that the intelligence community reviewers have "recommended 305 documents — approximately 5.1% — for referral to their agencies for consultation," the document said.
“The IC reviewers “perform preliminary screening of emails to identify their agencies’ equities,” and,“[w]hen an IC reviewer identifies an agency equity in an email, that email is sent to the relevant agency for consultation," the document says.
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State Department Finds Thousands of Philippe Reines Emails It Claimed Did Not Exist
J.K. Trotter
8/17/15 12:30pm
Earlier this year, Gawker Media sued the State Department over its response to a Freedom of Information Act request we filed in 2013, in which we sought emails exchanged between reporters at 33 news outlets and Philippe Reines, the former deputy assistant secretary of state and aggressive defender of Hillary Clinton. Over two years ago, the department claimed that “no records responsive to your request were located”—a baffling assertion, given Reines’ well-documented correspondence with journalists. Late last week, however, the State Department came up with a very different answer: It had located an estimated 17,000 emails responsive to Gawker’s request.
On August 13, lawyers for the U.S. Attorney General submitted a court-ordered status report to the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia in which it disclosed that State employees had somehow discovered “5.5 gigabytes of data containing 81,159 emails of varying length” that were sent or received by Reines during his government tenure. Of those emails, the attorneys added, “an estimated 17,855” were likely responsive to Gawker’s request:
The Department has conducted its preliminary review of the potentially responsive electronic documents in its possession, custody, and control from Mr. Reines’ state.gov email account (as opposed to records it received from his personal email account). The assemblage comprises approximately 5.5 gigabytes of data containing 81,159 emails of varying length. Based on a review of a portion of these emails, the Department estimates that 22% of the 81,159 emails may be responsive. Therefore, the Department believes that it will need to conduct a line- by-line review of an estimated 17,855 emails for applicable FOIA exemptions. Moreover, some of the responsive records may need to be referred to other agencies for consultation or processing.
It is not clear how the State Department managed to locate this tranche of Reines’ correspondence when it had previously asserted that the emails simply didn’t exist. These newly discovered records are from Reines’ government account, and are not related to the 20 boxes of government-business emails stored on his personal account that Reines recently handed over to the government, despite his prior claims to Gawker that his official use of non-governmental email was limited: “My personal email was the last place I wanted reporters intruding.”
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