The revelation was in response to a May 2015 lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch against the State Department after it failed to respond to a Freedom of Information request (FOIA) seeking all emails of official State Department business received or sent by Abedin between January 2009 and February 2013 "using a non-state.gov email address."

This is a disturbing development. Our experience with Abedin's emails suggest these Weiner laptop documents will include classified and other sensitive materials," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a statement, naming Abedin's ex-husband, Anthony Weiner.

"When will the Justice Department do a serious investigation of Hillary Clinton's and Huma Abedin's obvious violations of law?" the statement added.