state department declaration in hillary clinton email case
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The 55,000 emails belonging to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton won't be released anytime soon. In court papers filed Monday night, government lawyers announced that the State Department intends to publicly release electronic communications on January 15, 2016.The announcement was made in connection with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by VICE News last January, months before the controversy surrounding Clinton's use of private email to conduct business during her tenure as Secretary of State erupted. VICE News sought Clinton's emails and a wide range of other documents pertaining to her work as Secretary of State.TRANSCRIPT
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
JASON LEOPOLD,
Plaintiff,
v.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Defendant.
Civil Action No. 15-cv-123 (RC)
NOTICE OF FILING DECLARATION OF JOHN F. HACKETT
Please take notice that attached herewith is the Declaration of John H. Hackett, Acting
Director of the Office of Information Programs and Services of the U.S. Department of State (the
“Department”), filed in support of the Court’s order that “at or before the May 19, 2015 status
hearing, the Department of State shall provide a proposed schedule of production for Secretary
Clinton’s emails.” ECF No. 10. As set out more fully in the attached declaration, the
Department plans to produce releasable portions of Secretary Clinton’s emails, via the
Department’s production of the emails to the public on its FOIA website, by January 15, 2016.
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Date: May 18, 2015
Respectfully submitted,
BENJAMIN C. MIZER Acting Assistant Attorney General MARCIA BERMAN Deputy Branch Director
/s/ Robert J. Prince ROBERT J. PRINCE (D.C. Bar No. 975545) United States Department of Justice Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 20 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20530 Tel: (202) 305-3654 [email protected]
Counsel for Defendant
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