Hillary Clinton’s campaign got advance warning from the State Department that the agency planned to release a batch of emails last year related to the Benghazi, Libya, terrorism attack in 2011, according to the latest WikiLeaks release.

The attacks — and Clinton’s role in the affair — became the focus of intense congressional scrutiny.

“Someone here just got a tip that the State Department may be planning to release her Benghazi emails tomorrow or Monday.”

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WikiLeaks got ahold of thousands of Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta’s emails and released one Wednesday showing that Deputy Communications Director Kristina Schake emailed campaign staff on April 9, 2015.

“Someone here just got a tip that the State Department may be planning to release her Benghazi emails tomorrow or Monday,” she wrote. “Not sure the source is reliable. Has anyone heard anything about this?”

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Heather Samuelson, one of the lawyers who determined which of Clinton’s emails were private and which should be turned over to the State Department, sent a follow-up email to the campaign on April 13: “Quick update on this — DOS says the release of the 300 will likely happen on Thurs or Friday. Will keep you posted as I hear anything further on my end. Thx”

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Samuleson followed up two days later informing the staff that the release could be further delayed. Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri thanked her for the update.

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The State Department release did not actually come until the following month. It was was part the 30,000 emails that Clinton turned over to the State Department from her private server, which she set up in new New York home to bypass the government’s official system.

The first batch made public by the State Department included roughly 300 emails, about 850 pages. They covered everything from policy briefs to scheduling requests to exchanges with staff. It including a warning in June 2011 from State Department aide Jake Sullivan of a “credible threat against the hotel that our team is using.” Ambassador Christopher Stevens, one of four Americans killed in the attacks that September, sent an email about the fragility of the security forces in Libya.

Emails produced by the State Department form part of the basis for a scathing report issued in June by the House Select Committee on Benghazi and a separate report by two Republican congressmen highlighting parts they believe demonstrated Clinton’s deceptions.

Clinton’s Republican opponent in the presidential race, Donald Trump, jumped on the latest revelation. Trump spokesman Jason Miller referenced WikiLeaks documents published Tuesday indicating that the Clinton campaign got updates from the Justice Department about the criminal investigation into her email use. That probe ended with no charges

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“Today’s disclosure that the Clinton campaign was coordinating with the State Department over the release of Clinton’s Benghazi-related emails shows an unacceptable level of collusion between the Obama administration and her campaign,” he said in a prepared statement. “Coming on the heels of revelations that the Clinton campaign was coordinating with the Department of Justice, one has to wonder what other favors the Obama administration has given Clinton and her campaign.”

When news of the email release in May of last year broke, Clinton commented on the campaign trail in New Hampshire.

“It’s beginning,” she told reporters. “I just would like to see it expedited, so we could get more of them out more quickly.”

By then, of course, she had had plenty of time to prepare a response. About six weeks had passed since she received a heads-up that they were coming.