State Department Asks for More Time to Release Hillary Emails, Cites Snowstorm
The State Department is pushing to delay its release of the final batch of Hillary Clinton‘s emails and they cited the big snowstorm hitting the East Coast this weekend as a reason why.
Jason Leopold, the Vice reporter who filed the FOIA request for all her emails, posted the motion online today, and it starts off by asking for the one-month extension.
A judge had ordered State to post the emails by January 29th, but they need that extended to February 29th. Why? Because of the “significant amount of work to be done before it can be released.”
There were apparently some internal issues about a number of emails not being sent to all agencies required by the oversight process they’ve laid out. State also says, “The unexpected task of sending these documents for consultation has cut into the time available for the other processing tasks that must be completed before documents can be posted.”
And they also bring up the big snowstorm/snowzilla/snowmaggeddon/whatever we’re supposed to call it:
The National Weather Service has declared a blizzard warning to be in effect from 3:00 PM Friday, January 22 until 6:00 AM Sunday, January 24. The Office of Personnel Management closed federal offices at noon Friday. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has announced that bus and rail service will be suspended over the weekend. Because the Clinton email team must perform its work onsite… this storm will disrupt the Clinton email team’s current plans to work a significant number of hours throughout the upcoming weekend and could affect the number of documents that can be produced on January 29, 2016.
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