Judge Irked By State Dept.'s Delay In Releasing Rest Of Clinton's Emails

Source: Politico

By JOSH GERSTEIN 02/09/16 03:29 PM EST

A federal judge said Tuesday he was disturbed by the State Department's failure to meet a deadline he ordered to finish the public release of 54,000 pages of email messages Hillary Clinton sent or received during her four years as secretary of state.

"The government has put me between a rock and a hard place....which is a position I don't like to be in," U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras said during a half-hour-long hearing Tuesday.

Contreras signaled that he was not inclined to grant State's request that the deadline for a release of all remaining pages of Clinton's emails be extended until the end of this month. However, he did not immediately set a new deadline for State to complete its work on the Clinton messages.

"The department should expect to produce something on the 18th, if not sooner," the judge said.



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