AP sues State Department in move to release Clinton emails

The Associated Press filed suit Wednesday against the U.S. Department of State in a push toward the release of emails and government-held information related to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tenure at the post.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., one day after Clinton admitted to using a private email address while serving as secretary, is the result of repeated requests first made by the nonprofit news organization in 2010 that the information be made public. AP claims those requests, which were made again in 2013, went ignored by the State Department.

Some of the sought-after information includes Clinton’s schedule, calendars, correspondence with aids likely to be instrumental in her presidential campaign and emails regarding the department’s role in NSA surveillance, as well as the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan, according to the New York-based news agency.

Clinton said she turned over all official emails, amounting to approximately 30,000 communications, that were sent and received from the account to the State Department last year. Once the department has completed its review, those emails will be available online, but that process can take 450 days.

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