US State Department Releases Some 550 Hillary Clinton's Emails

 
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23:00 13.02.2016
The US State Department has released the latest batch of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails, publishing 551 emails.

Department spokesperson Mark Toner said that the US Department of State will release about 550 emails by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by February 13, and will complete the releasing of documents by February 29.

Release of Clinton’s Emails to Continue Saturday, End on February 29
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — As many as 81 messages were  reportedly classified, while three were branded secret.
The US State Department will complete the release of Clinton’s emails by February 29.

In March 2015, Clinton has come under severe criticism for using her personal email account and server for official purposes while serving as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. Subsequently, the authorities discovered top classified material in at least several of her emails.

A US District Court judge ordered the State Department to make public all of approximately 55,000 pages of Clinton’s emails by January 2016.

The State Department, however, renegotiated the deadline because of the massive snowstorm that hit the Washington, DC area in January, and caused the US federal government to close, in addition to affecting internal processing.