article_snippet: One day later Judicial Watch, a center-right group known for blanketing Washington with FOIA requests, has demanded that a federal court reopen a case a federal court agreed to drop last year because Abedin's emails were never properly searched.
article_snippet: In all, Judicial Watch has filed 18 FOIA lawsuits against the State Department, 'all of which are being carefully considered in light of Mrs. Clinton’s and the department’s misconduct and misrepresentations,' Farrell said. '
article_snippet: At the time the Abedin lawsuit was wending the Abedin lawsuit way through federal court, the State Department said in writing that the State Department had exhaustively searched the State Department archives and provided everything Judicial Watch asked for.
article_snippet: In its filing, Judicial Watch wrote that the State Departmentrepresented to Judicial Watch that the records of the Executive Secretariat had been searched.'
article_snippet: At no point did the State Department inform Judicial Watch that the Secretary’s emails and the emails of Ms. Abedin and other high level officials could not be searched,' the court petition reads. '
article_snippet: Had Judicial Watch known that the State Department’s search excluded Secretary Clinton’s emails and the emails of Ms. Abedin and other high level officials, Judicial Watch would not have stipulated to the dismissal of this case.'
highlights_snippet: Judicial Watch agreed to drop a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit over Abedin's records last year after State said Judicial Watch had handed everything over .
  