Clinton E-Mail Releases Threaten to Drag on Past 2020 Election

  • Government attorney briefs judge on pace of document review
  • Judicial Watch chief rails at State Department ‘slow-walking’

FBI Says Clinton's Use of Email Not a Crime

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The slow-drip release of e-mails from Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of state may drag on beyond the first term of the next president, according to a timetable presented in court Monday by a Justice Department lawyer.

It may take five years for the State Department and other government agencies to vet, redact and release the remaining messages recovered from Clinton’s private e-mail server as well as those found more recently on a laptop used by a top aide, based on the pace proposed by Justice Department lawyer Lisa Olson.