3,000 Clinton emails to be released today
July 01, 2015 01:40
Some 3,000 pages of Hillary Clinton's emails from her time as top US diplomat will be made public online today by the State Department, following the orders of a federal judge.
Clinton's electronic correspondence has been the focus of controversy since her admission in March that she had used a private account for all her email correspondence while secretary of state between 2009 and 2013.
Republican rivals contend that Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, used the private account in order to keep it out of the public record.
But she has argued that as of late 2014 she had sent 55,000 printed pages from roughly 30,000 emails to officials who will archive the data and make it available to the public, as is required under US law.
The remainder of the messages were deemed personal by Clinton and were deleted from her family's private server, she and her lawyers have said.
The State Department announced it intended to make the entirety of the Clinton archive public after purging it of classified or confidential information, a move backed by Clinton who vowed transparency in the process after stressing she chose to use a private account for reasons of practicality and not obfuscation.
In May, a judge ordered the process accelerated. The State Department's release on Tuesday would bring the amount of published emails to seven percent of the total, as required by the judge.
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