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State Department sued for Hillary Clinton e-mails with Mohamed Morsi's wife

With Hillary Clinton's practice of using a private e-mail account as secretary of state drawing major attention, a conservative group filed a new lawsuit Wednesday demanding her communications with the wife of ousted Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsi.

The case Judicial Watch filed in U.S. District Court in Washington seeks access to Clinton's contacts with Morsi's wife, Nagla Mahmoud.

Accounts published last August in Arabic news outlets and picked up on conservative websites said Mahmoud had reacted angrily to criticism Clinton leveled at Mahmoud's husband. Mahmoud also threatened to make public e-mails she received from Clinton, presumably messages that were flattering to Morsi, who hailed from a political party connected with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement.

The watchdog group says it requested all records of contacts between Clinton and Mahmoud under the Freedom of Information Act in August 2014, but has yet to receive them.

Judicial Watch also demanded records of communications between Mahmoud and Clinton's deputy chief of staff, Huma Abedin.

A State spokesman said Wednesday the agency does not comment on ongoing litigation.

State spokeswoman Marie Harf said Tuesday that 55,000 pages of personal e-mail records the agency obtained from Clinton last December will be searched in response to future FOIA requests. She said there was no plan to review past requests to see if the newly-obtained Clinton e-mails were responsive.

Morsi served for about a year as Egypt's first democratically elected president before being ousted by the Egyptian military in a coup in July 2013.