State Dept. delaying release of Bill Clinton speech records until 2018

Published August 9, 2016 2:13pm ET



State Department officials are attempting to block multiple lawsuits seeking Bill Clinton’s speech schedules by redacting the documents heavily or withholding them until after the election.

A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee has yielded just 14 pages of schedules so far, most of which were redacted beyond coherence, said Raj Shah, an RNC spokesman. And on Monday, the State Department provided Politico with 1,000 pages of documents — most of which were redacted entirely and contained only text that read “Page Denied” — in response to a request filed more than six years ago.

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