New emails released by WikiLeaks shows members of Hillary Clinton’s campaign talked about how the 55,000 pages of emails they released to the U.S. State Department were “definitely” not all of the emails Clinton exchanged during her time as secretary of state.
In an email chain dated March 4, 2015, Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri wrote that Clinton aid Cheryl Mills was working with the State Department to publicly release the 55,000 emails given to the State Department. Palmieri then asks if everyone would “agree this is the right move”:
Team - wanted to let you know that Cheryl is working with State to get agreement on release of the 55k pages of emails she have to State. The hope would be that we are able to say tonight to the press that we are working with State to get emails released soon. Not sure where those discussions will land, but hope is either State agrees to release on timely basis or we pledge to release them ourselves in ten days/week.
Assume you all would agree this is right move?
In response, Clinton advisor Jim Margolis agreed he believed releasing the emails was the right move, but also asked if the “55K” included all the emails:
Yes.
If there is a release of the 55K, are there others that are not being released?
Joel Benenson, another Clinton strategist, responded to Margolis’ email with “Definitely.”
The same day, Clinton tweeted that she asked the State Department to release the emails.
The 55,000 pages of emails originally released to the State Department allegedly did not include approximately 30,000 “personal” emails.
While Clinton maintains the emails that were not released were personal in nature, the WikiLeaks releases comes as the FBI has reopened the investigation into Clinton‘s use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state, after government emails related to Clinton’s time as secretary of state appeared during the investigation into Anthony Weiner’s underage sexting scandal.