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[h=4]State Dept. proposes Clinton email release every 2 months[/h]The State Department filed a proposal Tuesday with a federal judge to release emails from the private account of former secretary of State Hillary Clinton every 60 days.
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The State Department has released 296 emails from Hillary Rodham Clinton's days as secretary of state. One shows that Clinton received information on her private email server about the 2012 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya. (M AP
Democratic presidential hopeful and former secretary of State, Hillary Clinton meets with parents and child care workers at the Center for New Horizons on May 20, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois.(Photo: Scott Olson, Getty Images)
The State Department filed a proposal Tuesday with a federal judge to release emails from the private account of former secretary of State Hillary Clinton every 60 days.
The proposal is in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Jason Leopold of Vice News, which sought the release of all of Clinton's emails, along with other documents, from her tenure as secretary of State.
The State Department says there are about 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton turned over to the agency from her private account, which it needs to review before making public. Nearly 300 emails related to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya that left four Americans dead were released last Friday.
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Clinton has been heavily criticized for conducting government business on a private email account, a practice which was discouraged by the Obama administration.
Several Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., who chairs the House committee investigating Benghazi, argue that because Clinton used a private email server, she could have removed any damaging emails before handing them over to the State Department.
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The Department is keenly aware of the intense public interest in the documents and wants to get releasable materials out as soon as possible," the Justice Department lawyers representing State wrote in the filing.
Initially, the State Department proposed releasing all 55,000 pages of emails only after a compete review had been conducted, with a proposed release date of Jan. 15, 2016. In that proposal, the agency laid out a procedure to review, and where necessary redact, the emails at a pace of roughly 1,000 per week.
Under the current proposal, the emails would be released in batches as the review process goes on.
Leopold's lawyer, Ryan James, plans to file a response to State's proposal, calling for the emails to be released every two weeks, the Associated Press reports.
"I do not believe that additional rolling productions every 60 days is sufficiently frequent to enable the public to engage in fully informed discussion about Secretary Clinton's leadership style and decisions while at the helm of the State Department," James said in a statement.
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