State Department Misses Court-Ordered Goal On Clinton Email Release [View all]

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Source: Washington Post

By Rosalind S. Helderman December 31 at 4:44 PM

The State Department on New Year's Eve released thousands of pages of emails sent and received by Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state, but it still fell short of the number that a federal judge ordered should be made public by the end of the year.

The State Department is releasing about 55,000 pages of correspondence from Clinton's 2009 to 2013 tenure as secretary under a court order, after Vice News reporter Jason Leopold sued the department for failing to promptly respond to a public records response for the emails, among other records. Under the process outlined by the court, the State Department was required to release emails from the Democratic presidential front-runner every 30 days, starting at the end of June. It is required to make all 55,000 pages public by the end of January. The court set targets for each month's release.

Thursday, the department released 5,500 pages of emails — thousands short of the number necessary to meet the court's order that the department release 82 percent of the emails by the end of the year. State Department officials said they plan to release more emails next week to make up for the shortfall.

"We have worked diligently to come as close to the goal as possible, but with the large number of documents involved and the holiday schedule we have not met the goal this month," the department said in a release.

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