(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it is fighting the State Department for a full production of records responsive to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for the emails found by the FBI on Anthony Weiner's laptop. According to then-FBI Director James Comey, Weiner's laptop contained "hundreds of thousands" of emails of former Secretary Clinton.

Weiner is an ex-Congressman and the incarcerated husband of former Clinton top aide Huma Abedin. He was convicted of having sexually explicit communications with teenage girls. In October 2016, FBI investigators from its New York field office discovered Abedin's emails on Weiner's laptop, including data indicating the emails went through Clinton's "private" non-"state.gov" email system.

The court filing comes in May 2015 lawsuit Judicial Watch filed against the State Department (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00684)). Judicial Watch sued after the State Department failed to respond to a March 2015 FOIA request seeking:

All emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013 using a non-'state.gov' email address.

In an April 15, 2018, interview with George Stephanopoulos, former FBI Director James Comey stated that there were "hundreds of thousands" of Hillary Clinton-related emails that had been found "on Anthony Weiner's laptop" in its investigation of the Clinton email scandal.

In fighting the State Department's effort to close the case, Judicial Watch refers to the State Department claim that only 3,000 of those "hundreds of thousands" are agency records and 147 total emails were unique agency records. Judicial Watch argues that the State Department has not released information on the total number of emails that they reviewed, how they reviewed them, how many emails were personal and not agency records and how the agency would have made those determinations.