Like previous downloads, it's unlikely they'll illuminate much beyond the minutiae of her daily interactions with staff, lawmakers and outside supporters during her tenure as secretary of State. Friday's batch is the latest in a series of monthly releases of Clinton's emails that will continue until January of 2016 in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
The House Select Committee on Benghazi has already vetted the messages related to their inquiry into the 2012 attacks on the U.S. embassy in Libya, which was the impetus for the email release.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is also examining Clinton's private server to see whether government information was mishandled.
The former secretary of State’s more than 10 hours of testimony before the House Benghazi committee last week failed to uncover significant new information, and since then, Democrats have used the issue to galvanize their supporters who believe the Republican-led probe is politically motivated.
In their latest salvo, Clinton ally David Brock has filed an ethics complaint alleging that Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., inappropriately disclosed private information about a GOP whistleblower who claimed the committee was specifically targeting Clinton.
Moments after the committee concluded, its Republican chairman, Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, conceded they’d failed to uncover any new information as part of the $4.7 million investigation, saying Clinton hadn’t testified "that much differently" than she did two years ago before a Senate committee.
Clinton’s standing in the Democratic primary has dramatically improved since the State Department’s last email release in September. In addition to her Benghazi committee testimony, her campaign has been buoyed this month by her showing in the Oct. 13 Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas and by Vice President Biden's decision last week not to challenge her for the nomination.
In a series of television interviews, Clinton has said her use of a private email server was a mistake.
