article_snippet: A top Hillary Clinton's aide is at the center of a lawsuit filed by a government watchdog group, which claims the U.S. State Department hid emails the U.S. State Department was required to hand over as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.
article_snippet: Clinton and the Obama administration concealed records and lied to obstruct a federal court and Judicial Watch from finding out about the secret emails,' Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Clinton’s closest political associates claimed. '
article_snippet: Clinton said durign a press conference on Tuesday in New York City that Clinton had deleted more than 30,000 'personal' emails from Clinton 'clintonemail.com' server after determining with no outside input that they were unrelated to Clinton government work.
article_snippet: Clinton said nothing about other accounts on the server, including Abedin's.
article_snippet: Clinton plainly violated Clinton own legal obligations,' Judicial Watch said in a press release. '
article_snippet: And the State Department's Office of General Counsel found this week that the State Department's Office of General Counsel had retained just 61,000 emails, out of more than 1 billion sent by the agency's employees, in 2011 – in the middle of Clinton's tenure.