State Department to shift more workers to team handling Hillary Clinton's emails

Officials said the U.S. State Department plans to move 50 workers into temporary jobs to assist the office dealing with emails sent by Hillary Clinton on a private server during her time as secretary of state.

They will not be working on emails that are being released every month, but will fill in for the 20 permanent workers who have been pulled from their regular duties to sift through the emails, Reuters reports. The new staff will also help process an influx of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests; over the last fiscal year, FOIA requests were up 15.8 percent, and the agency had an overall backlog of 10,045 requests.

In an ABC News interview that aired Tuesday, Clinton apologized for using a private email address, saying: "That was a mistake. I'm sorry about that."

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