State Department officials announced Monday their intention to publish 7,000 pages of Hillary Clinton’s private emails in a late-night document release, surpassing their own previous estimates.
The agency said the publication, which is slated for 9 p.m. Monday, will produce more emails than did the document releases in May, June and July combined.
After falling short of a court-ordered benchmark at the end of July, releasing just 2,206 pages of emails, the State Department vowed to get back on track by publishing additional emails in August and September.
State officials had promised to release at least 6,106 pages of emails at the end of August, the largest batch of records to be posted online since the agency began putting out emails in May.
But the agency cited its “commitment to releasing these emails to the public as expeditiously as possible” in announcing the addition of 1,000 pages of emails to the August release.
Reporters expressed frustration with the State Department’s decision to withhold Clinton’s emails until the late evening at the end of June, when the agency released its first major batch of records.
State officials then planned an early afternoon release of the emails in July.
