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Obama Govt Won’t Release Clinton TPP Emails Till After Election

  • U.S. President Barack Obama photographed inside the White House.

    U.S. President Barack Obama photographed inside the White House. | Photo: Reuters

Published 7 June 2016
Opinion

The trend of queries related to Clinton’s emails being postponed by the U.S. State Department until after the election continues.

The U.S. State Department is delaying in releasing data related to Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s correspondence with the United States Trade Representative related to the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership, International Business Times reported Monday.

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The materials were requested by news outlet IBT senior editor David Sirota, who was initially told they would be made available in April.

Now, however, a U.S. State Department representative told Sirota last they won’t be ready till Nov. 31, 2016, after the election.

Given the request was made initially in July 2015, the delay reflects a systemic problem, according to Nate Jones of the National Security Archive, as published in Common Dreams.

‘Their inefficiency is doing great harm to the democratic process," he said.
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