The State Department doesn’t have enough staff to deal with Freedom of Information Act requests being submitted for Hillary Clinton’s emails, the department said in a Tuesday evening court filing. On top of that, 10 percent of those it hired to do the job have already quit.
The department had said it would hire 50 staffers by February. However, it had hired just 39 as of this month, and four had quit. Of the remaining 35, just 15 have security clearances that make them eligible to actually review sensitive documents. The remaining 20 can do only administrative work.
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