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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