The Associated Press filed a
lawsuit Wednesday against the State Department to force the release of
email correspondence and government documents from Hillary Rodham
Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
The legal action comes after
repeated requests filed under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act have
gone unfulfilled. They include one request AP made five years ago and
others pending since the summer of 2013.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia, comes a day after Clinton
broke her silence about her use of a private email account while
secretary of state. The FOIA requests and lawsuit seek materials related
to her public and private calendars, correspondence involving longtime
aides likely to play key roles in her expected campaign for president,
and Clinton-related emails about the Osama bin Laden raid and National
Security Agency surveillance practices.
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