The FBI HAS recovered Hillary Clinton's secret emails from private computer server

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Clinton used private server to send work emails while Secretary of State
FBI is probing how classified date ended up on Clinton’s private server
Clinton said around 30,000 emails during four-year term were personal
Said those were deleted while work emails were sent to State Department
Now, a source close to the investigation says emails have been recovered
Source revealed agents are sorting through them to distinguish which may contain sensitive information

Published: 22:23 EST, 22 September 2015 | Updated: 23:25 EST, 22 September 2015

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has recovered personal and work-related emails from Hillary Clinton’s private computer server, a source has revealed.

The federal agency is probing how classified information ended up on Clinton’s private server, which was set up in her New York home while she served as Secretary of State.

Investigators obtained the server from Platte River, a Denver-based company that had managed it.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has recovered personal and work-related emails from Hillary Clinton’s (pictured speaking in Arkansas this week) private computer server, a source has revealed

Clinton has said that a review by her aides concluded around half of the 60,000 emails exchanged during her four-year term as America’s top diplomat were personal in nature.

The Democratic presidential hopeful said the personal emails were deleted from the server and paper copies of work emails were sent to the State Department last year.

However, experts have said that unless the server was wiped the deleted emails could still be salvaged.

Now, some of those deleted emails have been recovered and agents are currently in the process of separating personal messages with ones that contain sensitive information, a source close to the investigation told Bloomberg News.

However, the exact number of emails extracted from the server is not known.

Government watchdogs have determined that classified information did end up on the server, sparking the FBI enquiry.

The federal agency is probing how classified information ended up on Clinton’s (pictured speaking in Iowa) private server, which was set up in her New York home while she served as Secretary of State

The FBI is refusing to cooperate with legal efforts to compel the release of emails from Hillary Clinton's private server, which the former Secretary of State has said she turned over this summer

The probe is set to take months more to complete, according to the unnamed source.

The controversy over her use of an unsecured private server to conduct government business while Secretary of State has cut into Clinton’s lead in opinion polls for the Democratic nomination to run in the 2016 presidential election.

She has been criticized heavily by Republicans who claim using the private server jeopardized the security of classified data.

Earlier this month, Clinton apologized for launching a series of federal investigations and risking the exposure of national secrets by setting up the private email server in her home in Chappaqua, New York.

'That was a mistake. I'm sorry about that. I take responsibility,' Clinton told ABC News anchor David Muir.

She claims she sent no information via email that was classified at the time and received no material marked that way.

The FBI is examining the server to see whether any information, including classified information, was mishandled.

The State Department, under a court order, has been releasing more than 30,000 work-related emails in monthly batches. Almost 8,000 have been posted on their department's website so far.

But the FBI has thrown efforts to publicly release the emails into chaos after refusing to co-operate with an order by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan to co-ordinate with the State Department.

James A. Baker, a general counsel attorney for the FBI, sent a letter to the Justice Department - its own parent agency - that would not even confirm the agency was involved.

'We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of any ongoing investigation, nor are we in a position to provide additional information at this time,' he wrote to Sullivan.

The judge has also ordered the State Department to speed up its review of emails from two key aides to Clinton.

A judge has also ordered the State Department to speed up its review of emails from two key aides, Huma Abedin (pictured) and Cheryl Mills, to Clinton

On Tuesday, Sullivan gave the department until October 2 to complete a keyword search of thousands of work-related messages sent or received from private email accounts by aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills.

Lawyers for the agency had asked for weeks longer to complete the task.

A line-by-line review of the emails will then be conducted to see if they contain confidential information.

The conservative political advocacy group Citizens United sued over what it argues is the slow response to its public-records request for the emails.

The State Department had indicated the emails wouldn't be released until at least December.