<p>Complying with a court order, the State Department has contacted the FBI to ask if the law enforcement agency has come across certain official records as it conducts a review of Hillary Clinton's email server and back-up records her lawyer kept on a thumb drive.</p><p>A top State lawyer wrote to the FBI's general counsel Wednesday to advise that a federal judge wants the FBI to indicate whether the server and thumb drive might contain records responsive to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the conservative group Judicial Watch.</p><p>"The Department requests that the FBI 'inform it about any information recovered from [former Secretary Hillary] Clinton's server or thumb drive that is: (a) potentially relevant to the FOIA request at issue in this case; and (b) not already in the Department's possession,'" State Principal Deputy Legal Adviser Mary McLeod wrote in a letter to FBI General Counsel James Baker (posted <a href="http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000014f-9493-d9a6-a5ff-b69bac320000" target="_blank">here</a>).</p><p>McLeod asked for a written response from the FBI by Sept.