State Department to release Hillary Clinton's emails in January 2016

The State Department says it would like to make January 15, 2016, the deadline to complete its review of 55,000 pages of emails from Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state.

In a document related to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in January by Vice News, acting director of Information Programs and Service John Hackett wrote: "The Department understands the considerable public's [sic] interest in these records and is endeavoring to complete the review and production of them as expeditiously as possible. The collection is, however, voluminous and, due to the breadth of topics, the nature of the communications, and the interests of several agencies, presents several challenges."

Clinton turned over the emails, stored on a private server, in December, and 12 State Department staffers have been assigned full-time to review the emails, Politico reports. It took until earlier this month for all of the emails to be scanned into a computer system.

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