The State Department wants to wait until October 2018 to reveal Clinton emails

The government has asked for a 27-month delay for the release of Hillary Clinton's emails to the public.
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If you increasingly agree with Bernie Sanders' complaint of being "sick and tired of hearing about [Hillary Clinton's] damn emails," despair: The State Department has petitioned a federal court for a 27-month delay in releasing the messages, a timeline which could well stretch the email drama through at least October 2018.

The department claimed it previously miscalculated the time and effort required to comply with the relevant FOIA requests, which it says "involve significantly more material, which is significantly more complicated, than the parties had originally anticipated."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.