Hillary Clinton: ‘I want the public to see my email’

Hillary Clinton wants the State Department to release her emails.

After two days of silence, the former secretary of state and likely 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, tweeted that she has asked the State Department to release emails sent and received from the personal email address she used during her time in the government.

“I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible,” she said.

But the review process “will take some time,” State Department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf said in a statement.

“The State Department will review for public release the emails provided by Secretary Clinton to the Department, using a normal process that guides such releases,” Harf said. “We will undertake this review as quickly as possible; given the sheer volume of the document set, this review will take some time to complete.”

Clinton has been under scrutiny since it was revealed Monday by the New York Times she never used an official government email address during her time as secretary of state, but rather a personal email address.

Though she is not the first secretary of state to do this, her aides failed to preserve the official government correspondence sent and received from her personal email account onto department servers — something required by the Federal Records Act.

Her aides recently turned over roughly 55,000 pages of her personal emails to the State Department after reviewing tens and thousands of pages of them; however, it is unclear how many emails were not given and what exactly was on them.

Furthermore, the server for her personal email address was kept at her home in Chappaqua, New York, the Associated Press reported Wednesday, raising more questions of email security and what exactly she could be hiding.

Now, in a move that appears to seek to quiet critics, her emails will eventually be released, per her request — though the quantity is yet to be determined.