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US court orders release of thousands of more Clinton emails

Thursday, 11 February 2016 9:27 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 12 February 2016 1:44 AM ]

A federal judge has ordered the State Department to make four additional releases of Hillary Clinton's emails between Saturday and the end of February.

A US court has ordered the State Department to release thousands of more Hillary Clinton’s emails during her term as secretary of state by the end of this month.

US District Judge for the District of Columbia on Thursday ordered the Obama administration to release batches of the still-undisclosed portion of Clinton's emails on February 13, February 19, February 26 and February 29 with "all remaining documents" before March 1.

In response, the State Department promised to make public over 500 of emails from the private server Clinton used during her time in office this weekend.

The department will now have to release the final 3,700 emails in four separate portions during this time.

“The Court expects that Defendant will endeavor to avoid any additional delay,” Contreras said in his order, referring to the administration.

Clinton has come under fire from her Republican rivals in the 2016 presidential race since it emerged in March last year that she used a personal email account on an unsecured private server for official business.

The former first lady has denied handling classified information on her private server. However, federal investigators, looking into the latest batch of Clinton’s emails released by the State Department, have determined that at least some of the emails contain classified information.

Clinton’s decision to use a private server potentially put thousands of pages of State Department emails at risk, but it also shielded her correspondence from congressional and Freedom of Information Act requests.

Clinton said last week that she is "100 percent confident" the ongoing investigation will not find wrongdoing.

Critics say the email scandal should disqualify Clinton, who is seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination, for the presidency, and claim the investigation has had an impact on her sinking poll numbers.

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