If Hillary didn't use her email for classified information, why a year for State to release?

[morningfog]

The State Department says it needs until next year before it will be ready to publicly release tens of thousands of Hillary Clinton emails from her time in charge.

The uproar over Clinton's exclusive use of private, rather than official, email during her tenure as Secretary of State erupted earlier this year and is still rumbling on.

In an effort to defuse the crisis ahead of the announcement of her 2016 presidential run, Clinton said in March that she wanted "the public to see my email" and had asked the State Department to release them.

The department is also under pressure from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuits seeking the release of documents related to Clinton that haven't been made public.

For one of those lawsuits -- brought by Vice News -- the State Department on Monday produced a court-requested schedule for publicly releasing roughly 30,000 emails that Clinton handed over to it in December. Clinton provided the emails in paper form, amounting to about 55,000 pages, according to the department.

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The review should be finished by the end of the year, Hackett said, but he asked the court to accept the proposed date of January 15, 2016, in order "to factor in the holidays."

Judges in the Freedom of Information Act lawsuits still have to decide whether to accept the proposed schedule.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/19/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-state-department/

State claims it will take a full year to review 30,000 emails that Hillary and her team were able to got through in pretty short order. And Hillary claims she didn't use her email for classified information. Strange it will take State this long.

[hrmjustin]

1. And Hillary wants them to speed it along.

[morningfog]

2. No doubt. January 2016 would be bad timing, rolling relase would be bad.

Why will it take State a year? Especially if there is no classified material?

[hrmjustin]

4. i just heard on tv that they m7ght speed it along.

[kenfrequed]

3. Hmph

I kind of want them to hurry up and release their report as quick as possible. This shouldn't be hanging over the election and if she did something wrong I would prefer that she make decisions about her campaign now rather than later.

Obviously the Republicans want this to be the story of the election and are setting this up as their strategy.

Of course my counter-strategy would be to run Bernie Sanders instead.

[NCTraveler]

6. Your counter-strategy is currently in place. nt.

[kenfrequed]

7. True!

And I will make no secret of supporting Bernie! But if he loses and Hillary wins I don't want more conspiranoid bullshit hanging over the general election. Of course some right wing idiots will spout out bullshit no matter what. That said I am not advocating running a campaign based on their game but I will point out that they have been plotting their election strategy against her for eight years now.

[NCTraveler]

5. Not sure.

I would ask the state department. Or follow their releases. I'm sure this question is being yelled from certain circles.