Conservative Patriot: U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE ORDERS RELEASE OF HUMA ABERDEEN (HILLARY'S LOVER) E MAILS

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE ORDERS RELEASE OF HUMA ABERDEEN (HILLARY'S LOVER) E MAILS

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Hillary Confidante Huma Abedin is Entangled in Email Scandal – Now a Judge Gives Her Bad News

By Katie LaPotin | Judicial Watch

Following the release of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s personal emails, the State Department has agreed to process for public release more than 29,000 pages of emails sent and received by longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin between 2009 and 2013.

According to POLITICO, Monday’s ruling comes after the conservative non-profit Judicial Watch sued the State Department for access to Abedin’s emails.

The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell reads:

“The parties have agreed that State will produce to Judicial Watch responsive, nonexempt records from within the recently received documents, excluding news clippings/briefings contained therein.”

The release of Abedin’s emails could also have a lasting impact on Clinton’s presidential campaign, should she win the Democratic nomination.

The State Department will begin reviewing Abedin’s emails on March 1st, one month after it finishes releasing all 55,000 pages of emails from Clinton’s archive.

It will then review the emails at a rate of at least 400 pages a month and disclose the releasable portion to Judicial Watch by April of 2017. However, it is unclear if all of the 29,000 pages in the archive will be reviewed during that time.

The Associated Press noted that Justice Department lawyers, who had initially not intended on releasing any of the emails from Abedin or any of the other senior Clinton staffers, had initially asked for a three-year period in which to process and release the emails.

Long-time aide to Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin (L), looks on as Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi October 22, 2015 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Image Credit: Getty - Alex Wong)

(Image Credit: Getty – Alex Wong)

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton claims that the group wanted to review Abedin’s emails to ensure that all possible records related to Clinton were reviewed, telling the AP after the decision was announced that:

“Obviously, she was as close an aide as you could have had to Mrs. Clinton. If Mrs. Clinton didn’t keep records she should have or destroyed or deleted them, maybe we can find them through Ms. Abedin. And Ms. Abedin’s activities are also controversial.”

Abedin, who is married to former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, turned over the emails last year following the controversy over her boss’s use of a private server while running the State Department.

She was one of several senior officials during Clinton time at State who was asked to turn over any work-related messages in their personal accounts following the revelation that Clinton had only used a personal email account.

The longtime Clinton aide and personal assistant also had an official government email account for State Department work.

An attorney for Abedin, who is currently working as a senior advisor to Clinton’s presidential campaign, has not yet responded to POLITICO’s request for comment.

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