the fbi turned over the messages after it investigated hillary clinton<u+2019>s use of a private email server. | getty by madeline conway 10/21/16 03:41 pm edt updated 10/21/16 04:22 pm edt the state department on friday released an additional 247 pages of emails from hillary clinton<u+2019>s time as secretary of state. the messages, which the fbi turned over after it investigated clinton<u+2019>s use of a private email server, are among the roughly 1,050 pages that a u.s. district court judge ordered the state department to process before the november election in response to freedom of information act requests. story continued below the state department said it processed roughly 350 pages by friday, as required by the court order, and had released 247 of those because the others were copies of messages that it had already made public. of the 247 pages published online friday, some are close to the same as messages that were previously released, but with an added reply, such as a request to print the materials. many were notes about scheduling phone calls and other daily business at state. one new document processed, according to the state department, has been upgraded to "confidential"; it also reported that it re-released a "small number" of documents that had been upgraded and published previously. the department said those documents were not marked as classified when they were sent. the state department is slated to release two more batches of clinton<u+2019>s emails before the election, on nov. 3 and 4. it will eventually release some 5,600 work-related emails requested through foia, but it is only required to process 1,050 pages of them by early november. (judicial watch, a conservative watchdog group, had asked that the state department be required to process all 5,600 emails by then.) a separate document release from the fbi last week prompted some controversy because it included an allegation that a state department official had pushed the fbi to declassify one of clinton<u+2019>s emails and had discussed a <u+201c>quid pro quo<u+201d> arrangement. the state department denies that any such deal took place, and says the email<u+2019>s classification was not changed. by thomas wright by bill scher by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
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