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State Department rejects GOP request for trove of Clinton aides’ emails

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The State Department is seeking to reject demands from the Republican Party that the diplomatic agency turn over hundreds of thousands of emails sent or received by several former aides to Hillary Clinton.

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Eyeing Clinton’s tenure, legislator probes State’s FOIA program

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Does the State Department obstruct valid requests for public records?

That’s what House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is trying to find out with a new probe of the department’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) program under Secretary John Kerry, former Secretary Hillary Clinton and three of their predecessors.

Citing an increase in FOIA-related litigation, Chaffetz asked the State Department to produce information about how the Office of the Secretary handles records requests.

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Everything you need to know about how the State Department classifies information

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We knew we'd get to this point in the Hillary Clinton e-mail story eventually: examining the nitty gritty of how information gets classified.

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State Department Releases Annual Fiscal Transparency Report

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Today, the State Department released the FY 2015 Fiscal Transparency Report pursuant to section 7031(b)(3) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2015 (Div. J, P.L.113-235).

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Judge Orders Monthly Release of Clinton Emails

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In response to a State Department proposal to incrementally release former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails every two months, a federal judge ordered Wednesday that the department instead disclose them every 30 days.

Justice Department lawyers representing the State Department offered in a Tuesday court filing to start posting Clinton’s emails on the department’s Freedom of Information Act website on June 30, with “rolling productions” made public every 60 days.

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Clinton Aides at State Handled FOIA Requests, Not Experts: WSJ

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During former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department, her political staff personally reviewed and negotiated the release of public records requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) — and in some cases blocked documents' release, according to The Wall Street Journal.

A Journal investigation found there existed a culture of "delay and inefficiency" at the State Department.

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Obama’s State Department repeatedly ignores open government laws

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The State Department has been dismissing about half of the press requests it receives for information under open government laws – a pattern of rejection that members of the Senate Judiciary Committee described on Wednesday as unacceptable and embarrassing.

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U.S. Sen. John Cornyn presses State Department on Clinton emails

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U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) pressed the State Department on May 6 about compliance with the Freedom of Information Act, specifically with regards to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email.

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Deadline Set for State Dept to Release Hillary’s Personal Emails

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A federal judge has ruled that the State Department has roughly three weeks to propose a deadline for the release of tens of thousands of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails, Politico reported.

The deadline, mandated by U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras in an order issued Tuesday, applies to work-related emails Clinton sent or received on her personal account.

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Judge sets deadline for deadline to release Hillary Clinton emails

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The State Department has about three weeks to propose a date by which it will release tens of thousands of work-related emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent or received on her personal account, a federal judge said in an order issued Tuesday.

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