State Department fails to release Clinton documents to Associated Press

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AP:

Some records may not be made public until after the Iowa caucuses and N.H. primary.

STEPHEN BRAUN

Sept 9 2015

 

WASHINGTON — The State Department has failed to deliver nearly 70 pages of documents to The Associated Press, as instructed by a federal judge, about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton’s hiring of longtime aide Huma Abedin as a special government contract staffer. The department provided only seven pages of emails.

 

Meanwhile, government lawyers asked another judge to delay releasing thousands of pages of documents from Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state until January 2016.

 

The State Department’s request to delay until next year its release of emails and other Clinton-related documents sought by news media and legal and political organizations raised the prospect that significant information about Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state might not surface until after presidential nomination contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.

 

Impatient with years of previous delays from the State Department over requests by the AP for emails and documents from Clinton and several of her top aides, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon set a strict schedule for release of the material last month that included an order to deliver to the AP an estimated 68 pages of documents related to Abedin by Tuesday.

 

The department instead provided only five documents, two of them partially censored.

 

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