A federal judge has upheld the Trump administration's right to not release two emails from Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonJoe Biden looks to expand election battleground into Trump country Biden leads Trump by 12 points among Catholic voters: poll The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden goes on offense MORE's private account on the grounds that they contain classified information related to the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

Politico reported Tuesday that U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that a "significant risk to national security" was at stake over the release of the emails, which led to her decision to allow the Trump administration to keep them sealed.

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"In light of the substantiation of the important national security interests at stake, it does not appear that the agency's failure to invoke Exemption 1 [for classified information] was part of an effort to gain tactical advantage, but rather, it stemmed from inefficiencies at and extraordinary burdens placed upon defendant's FOIA unit," Jackson wrote in her 12-page ruling.

Jackson had originally ruled that the two emails, titled "Quick Summary of POTUS Calls to Presidents of Libya and Egypt," be released to the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. But the State Department said it made a mistake by not originally marking the emails as classified.

The two emails are dated two days after the 2012 attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others.

Judicial Watch blasted the Trump administration earlier in the week for not releasing the emails, accusing Trump of going back on his promise to "drain the swamp."

“It is disheartening that an administration elected to ‘drain the swamp’ is stalling the release of documents to protect Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration," Tom Fitton said in a statement.