State Department blames FOIA backlog on Hillary Clinton

State Department officials are using the recent spate of Hillary Clinton controversies to shield the agency from having to turn over documents in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

Although the National Security Archives filed its FOIA request in 2001, State Department officials asked a federal court Friday for a six-month extension of the deadline to produce the documents because “a significant portion of [State’s] FOIA-processing resources are currently devoted to reviewing for public release the collection of approximately 55,000 pages of emails that were recently provided to State by former Secretary Hillary Clinton…and to making those documents available to the public by posting them on a department website.”