State Dept. names ‘transparency czar’ for Clinton emails

Published September 8, 2015 7:21pm ET



Secretary of State John Kerry has appointed an official to lead the State Department’s response to requests through the Freedom of Information Act and by Congress as scrutiny of Hillary Clinton’s emails intensifies.

Kerry tapped Ambassador Janice Jacobs, a career diplomat, as the agency’s “transparency czar” Tuesday in anticipation of a report from the State Department inspector general about how the agency handles federal records.

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