Two hundred ninety six of Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi-related e-mails will be released this afternoon by the State Department, following a lawsuit filed by the conservative group Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act.

“These are e-mails that were provided to the State Department, allegedly by Hillary Clinton,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton tells National Review. “All we know is that they’re new e-mails that weren’t previously on the State Department website that now will be.”

Judicial Watch filed the suit in May after “the State Department acknowledged receipt of the Freedom of Information requests but made no effort to respond with a document production, or a disclosure about its intent to withhold information, within the legally required 20 days.”

The State Department has tried to argue, with diminishing success, that Judicial Watch should wait until next year to find out what e-mails Clinton handed over to the agency from her private server.

Last week, a federal judge reopened another lawsuit filed by the group in an attempt to obtain the e-mails of longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

“These are agency e-mails and they should be all turned over and all those records should be searched,” Fitton says. “They’re still turning documents over to the Clinton Foundation prior to turning them over to us.”

Update: Judicial Watch now says the State Department has clarified that it will only be offering a new URL to the same Clinton e-mails already posted on its website. “They are not releasing new e-mails to us today,” says Judicial Watch senior attorney Ramona Cotca.

— Joel Gehrke is a political reporter for National Review.