CNN: State Department: We need until January 2016 to release Clinton emails

By Jethro Mullen, May 19, 2015, CNN

(CNN)The State Department says it needs until next year before it will be ready to publicly release tens of thousands of Hillary Clinton emails from her time in charge.

The uproar over Clinton's exclusive use of private, rather than official, email during her tenure as Secretary of State erupted earlier this year and is still rumbling on.

In an effort to defuse the crisis ahead of the announcement of her 2016 presidential run, Clinton said in March that she wanted "the public to see my email" and had asked the State Department to release them.

The department is also under pressure from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuits seeking the release of documents related to Clinton that haven't been made public.

For one of those lawsuits -- brought by Vice News -- the State Department on Monday produced a court-requested schedule for publicly releasing roughly 30,000 emails that Clinton handed over to it in December. Clinton provided the emails in paper form, amounting to about 55,000 pages, according to the department.

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