WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is releasing more of Hillary Clinton’s emails, but it won’t meet a court-ordered goal of getting 82 percent of them out by year’s end.
The New Year’s Eve release is to include about 5,500 pages of emails from Clinton’s private server while she served as the nation’s top diplomat. The department says in a statement that while it has “worked diligently” to come close to the goal, it will fall short because of the large number of documents involved and the holiday schedule.
State says it plans to release more Clinton emails next week.
The Democratic presidential candidate has faced questions about whether her use of a private email server was sufficient to ensure the security of government information and retention of records.
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I guess hell will freeze over, before we see Condoleezza Rice or Colin Powell’s private emails then.
Contempt of Court! Lock them all up!
Oh, wait, how would we get the emails then?
Of course there was this two weeks ago:
Hillary Clinton Faces Call for New Ethics Investigation After Son-in-Law Asked for a Business Favor
Rich people helping rich people.
I’m an attorney with significant public records litigation experience, and I can confidently state that this is very very normal in FOIA litigation for agencies to take longer producing documents than they are supposed to take. I had a FOIA request with CDC take years to be fulfilled, for example. Just an FYI in case people need to disarm the conspiracy talking points that I am sure are flaring up in conservative media
Can we put some extra manpower on this and just finish it, so we don’t have it be a news story every two months?