The State Department is saying it won't release Hillary Clinton's emails to the public until January 2016, just weeks before the Iowa caucuses. That news comes in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from Vice News. The State Department responded in a court filing that just scanning the 55,000 pages of email had taken five weeks, and that a review, which would separate out some personal emails that had been included, would take months. House Benghazi Czar Trey Gowdy can take comfort, though:
State Department officials have reaffirmed in recent weeks that they plan an earlier disclosure of a batch of the emails provided to a House committee investigating the Benghazi attacks. However, the department’s spokespeople have said only that the initial release will come “soon,” declining to be more specific about the timing of that first release.
Gowdy is presumably now thinking about where he'll move the goalposts the minute the State Department sends over all of the Benghazi-related emails.