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FOIA News: Another Court Orders State Dept to Expedite Production

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Court Orders State Department to Expedite Delivery of Clinton Emails

Tom Fitton, Newsmax, Jan. 17, 2018

The Deep State bureaucracies in Washington give awful life to the cliché that "the wheels of justice turn slowly." This is the case with the State Department and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s e-mails.

Last year, the FBI uncovered 72,000 pages of documents that Clinton attempted to delete or did not otherwise disclose. The State Department had been processing these documents at a rate that would have required us and the American people to wait until at least 2020 to see them.

Now I’m pleased to tell you that a federal court judge has ordered the State Department to speed up the processing and production of these emails. U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg ordered State to finish processing the remaining documents by Sept. 28, 2018.

Read more here.