A federal judge told the State Department to “get more people on the case reviewing and releasing the emails of former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and her top aides.” The Washington Times,
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan also rejected the State Department’s timeline for searching the aides’ emails and insisted the government have them all put in an electronic system by the end of this week, and do an initial search to see which ones are related to the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks next week.
“There has to be some reallocation of resources because these are atypical cases,” the judge told Obama administration lawyers…
The State Department says it has the equivalent of about 63 full-time employees working on the thousands of open-records requests the department gets each year, and those staffers are being pushed to meet tight deadlines, including those imposed by more than a dozen judges now involved in some Clinton email-related cases…
Judge Sullivan said the obvious answer was to get more people: “It strikes me, we have to find the resources.”
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