Judge says State Dept. ‘will have to answer for’ destroyed Clinton emails

Published July 20, 2015 5:52pm ET



A federal judge warned the State Department it would “have to answer for” the destruction of Hillary Clinton’s private emails if the agency doesn’t “want to do anything out of the ordinary to preserve” records from her server.

U. S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras also blasted the State Department for its seemingly haphazard approach to the dozens of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits seeking Clinton’s private emails.

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