State Department seeks 1-month extension on Clinton emails [View all]

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(might screw up her chances at the Primaries if they released it sooner)

WASHINGTON — The State Department asked a federal court Friday for a one-month extension to publish the last of Hillary Clinton’s emails during her time as secretary of state, citing a complex review of some messages across different agencies of the government.

State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the department wouldn’t be able to meet its court-mandated goal of Jan. 29. About 9,400 of 55,000 pages are left, but Toner said those remaining “contain a large amount of material that required interagency review.”

The department will make public as many as possible next week, he said, but is asking for the final deadline to be pushed back until Feb. 29.

“State Department staff have been working extremely hard to process these emails, and we are committed to getting them out,” Toner said. “The court’s goal for this month’s production represented the largest number of pages to date. The remaining emails are also the most complex to process.”
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/state-department-seeks-1-month-extension-on-clinton-emails/