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发帖数: 4150 | 1 The State Department has sought to delay the court-ordered release of emails
between four of Hillary Clinton's top aides and officials at the Clinton
Foundation and a closely associated public relations firm.
The motion, filed in federal court by the Justice Department late Wednesday,
seeks to put off the release of the emails by 27 months. It was first
reported on by The Daily Caller.
In the filing, the State Department says it originally estimated that
approximately 6,000 emails and other documents were exchanged between the
aides — identified as former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael
Fuchs, former Ambassador-At-Large Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff Cheryl
Mills, and Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin — and the Clinton Foundation
and Teneo Holdings, a communications shop that former President Bill Clinton
helped launch.
However, the State Department said that due to errors in the initial
document search, the number of "potentially responsive documents" was in
fact more than 34,000. The department estimated that it had more than 13,000
pages still left to review.
U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras had previously ordered the State
Department to release the requested documents by July 21.
If the State Department request is granted, the emails would not be released
until October 2018, nearly halfway through the first term of a potential
Hillary Clinton presidency. The documents are being sought by the
conservative nonprofit group Citizens United.
"The American people have a right to see these emails before the election,"
Citizens United President David Bossie told The Daily Caller, adding that
the delay was "totally unacceptable."
The motion was filed two days after Attorney General Loretta Lynch met Bill
Clinton at the Phoenix airport. Lynch denied the meeting was anything other
than a chance encounter, but Republicans and Democrats have criticized her
for at least creating the appearance of a conflict of interest in the midst
of a federal investigation into Hillary Clinton's time as America's top
diplomat.
On Thursday, State Department spokesman John Kirby cited a surge in Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) requests in explaining the State Department
extension request.
"The Department handles FOIA in an entirely nonpartisan manner," Kirby said.
The former secretary of state has come under scrutiny over whether she used
her position to aid corporate and foreign government donors to the Clinton
Foundation.
In addition, Abedin worked as an employee at Teneo while simultaneously
working at the State Department while Mills held a position at the Clinton
Foundation while also serving in the State Department. Both matters have
been flagged by Congress as possible conflicts of interest.
Fox News' Jennifer Griffin and Matt Dean contributed to this report. | t*******d
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