State Department plans to release Hillary Clinton's e-mails in January 2016

The State Department is proposing a deadline of January 2016 to complete its review and public release of 55,000 pages of e-mails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exchanged on a private server and turned over to her former agency last December. The proposal came in a document related to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Vice News filed in January seeking all of Clinton’s e-mails. “The Department’s plan … would result in its review being completed by the end of the year. To factor in the holidays, however, the Department would ask the Court to adopt a proposed completion date of January 15, 2016,” State’s acting director of Information Programs and Services John Hackett said in a declaration filed in US District Court in Washington.

“The Department understands the considerable public’s [sic] interest in these records and is endeavoring to complete the review and production of them as expeditiously as possible. The collection is, however, voluminous and, due to the breadth of topics, the nature of the communications, and the interests of several agencies, presents several challenges,” Hackett added.