The FBI has 'reopened' its consideration of a request for records on the infamous tarmac meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton in 2016.

Last week, it was revealed that Lynch, President Obama's last attorney-general, used a secret email address for official business under the name Elizabeth Carlisle.

Lynch used the account to discuss her notorious meeting with Clinton while his wife's own email scandal was being investigated by the FBI.

On Wednesday, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) announced that they 'received a letter from the FBI bureaucracy informing us that it has 'reopened' our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request' between Lynch and Clinton.

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The FBI has 'reopened' its consideration of a request for records on the infamous tarmac meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch (left in November 2016) and former President Bill Clinton (right in July) in 2016

Stepping into a crisis: Lynch's decision to let Bill Clinton meet her on her own government jet battered her reputation and led to a secret email account being revealed

One email that was released to the ACLJ showed staffers appearing to panic after they got whiff of the meeting between the pair

This email shows staffers preparing to discuss the meeting between Clinton and Lynch after a press conference in Phoenix

The transcript above shows that the fourth question asked to Lynch dealt with her meeting with Clinton. Lynch responded that she spoke to Clinton about 'his grandchildren'

American Center for Law and Justice President Jay Sekulow called the development a 'positive sign,' in an interview Wednesday on Fox & Friends.

The FBI and Department of Justice intitially said they did not have documents detailing the tarmac meet-up, before recently releasing numerous emails.

According to the ACLJ, the agencies are now searching for more records.

The FBI’s newest letter to the ACLJ – dated one week after the ACLJ accused the government of lying to them about the existence of records – now states that 'records potentially responsive to your request may exist'.

'While we appreciate that the FBI has "reopened" the case file and is now "searching" for documents responsive to our duly submitted FOIA request from more than a year ago, it stretches the bounds of credulity to suggest that the FBI bureaucracy just discovered that "potentially responsive" records "may exist" on its own accord,' Sekulow said in a statement.

Lynch had to step aside last year from deciding on whether to charge Hillary Clinton with breaking the law for having her secret server in an alleged breach of national security law because of her meeting with Bill Clinton on her private plane in Phoenix.

That was followed by James Comey, the sacked FBI director, revealing in devastating testimony to the Senate that she had ordered him to call the Clinton investigation a 'matter'.

Last week, hundreds of pages of DOJ documents were published after legal action by the conservative campaign groups Judicial Watch and the ACLJ

Lynch has issued no statement since Comey's evidence under oath and is now facing calls from Republicans to be the focus of a special counsel investigation into the 2016 election.

It would be separate from Robert Mueller's probe into allegations the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.

Last week, hundreds of pages of DOJ documents were published after legal action by the conservative campaign groups Judicial Watch and the ACLJ.

It was revealed last week that Lynch's address used a pseudonym that appeared to be inspired by her family, as Elizabeth Carlisle was her grandmother's maiden name, while her own middle name is also Elizabeth.

It is not illegal for government officials to use a pseudonym, as long as their records are preserved.

Lynch's attorney, Robert Raben, told the Daily Caller that she had done so to keep her inbox manageable.

'That address was and is known to the individuals who process [Freedom of Information Act] requests; the practice, similar to using initials or numbers in an email, helps guard against security risks and prevent inundation of mailboxes,' he said.

Her predecessor Eric Holder had three email addresses. The most notorious was Lew Alcindor, the birth name of basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, while before that he had gone under the names Henry Yearwood, apparently a combination of family members' names, and David Kendricks, from two members of The Four Tops.

Lynch was involved in a series of exchanges under her secret name, but it was clear that those who were involved in the emails knew who Elizabeth Carlisle was.

The content of the Lynch emails show how her officials panicked about the revelation of the meeting with Bill Clinton at the end of June 2016.

Her head of public affairs, Melanie Newman, repeatedly asked to speak by phone with reporters asking questions about the meeting - which means it is impossible to know what she said to them.

One NPR reporter told her it was a 'bad perception problem', while when she was asked whether Lynch was guaranteeing she would accept whatever recommendation was made by her staff on prosecuting Clinton, Newman wanted to deal with the question by phone.

Lynch recused herself eventually in a firestorm of criticism, and days later, in July, Comey cleared Clinton.

The documents also revealed how the DOJ tried to provide 'talking points' to the FBI on the meeting, and called in a former assistant attorney general who Judicial Watch said is a friend of John Podesta, who was Clinton's chief of staff.

The content of the Lynch emails show how her officials panicked about the revelation of the meeting with Bill Clinton at the end of June 2016. Lynch (pictured in January 2017) recused herself eventually in a firestorm of criticism, and days later, in July, Comey cleared Clinton

Newman also wrote 'talking points' for Lynch herself before she was asked about the meeting.

Many of the documents were heavily blacked out despite being issued under the Freedom of Information Act.

Page after page of blacked out copy covers the 'talking points' being edited and even their final version.

One official told her colleagues 'there are a lot of angry people...' then used a sad-face emoji.

And the attempts by her team to influence the media are also spelled out.

At one point Marshall Miller, a former senior DOJ official, emailed saying she had been asked to go on Fox News to discuss the unfolding scandal and asked if Lynch's spin team had anyone they could suggest in his place.

And the FBI asked for 'guidance' on what it could say about a report that agents guarding Lynch had ordered 'no photos' on the tarmac

Such an order would be in breach of the First Amendment and it is unclear why the FBI would need 'guidance' on what to say about it if its agents had been acting lawfully.

Newman again avoided having any response recorded on email by saying to an official 'can someone call me'.