A freelance journalist is suing the State Department to find out why Hillary Clinton’s lawyer was able to keep copies of her e-mails after they knew that some of the e-mails were classified. Journalist David Brown filed a Freedom of Information Act request in August for all records about the decision to allow the lawyer to retain a drive with 30,000 Clinton e-mails from the time she was Secretary of State. (Politico, September 8, 2015, by Josh Gerstein)
Since The New York Times revealed in March that Clinton used a private account to conduct State Department business, courts have ordered a quarter of the e-mails in question, with redactions, released to the public. (Courthouse News Service, September 9, 2015, by Tim Ryan)
In the meantime, Sergio Munoz of MediaMATTERS, September 2, 2015, argues that The New York Times exaggerated the Clinton e-mail imbroglio that began with a routine Freedom of Information Act review. “In fact, the current Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) review of Clinton’s emails that has led to interagency disputes over retroactive classification would have taken place regardless of whether Clinton used a private email account,” wrote Munoz.