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WASHINGTON (AP) — It could take months for the government to review Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails from her time as secretary of state, to see which ones can be released.
The State Department announced the review after Clinton said last night on Twitter that she wants the public to see her emails, and that she has asked that they be released.
It was disclosed this week that Clinton conducted official business using a private email account. Clinton's email practices gave her significant control over access to her message archives, highly unusual in government.
The months of review could be a distraction for Clinton as she nears an expected presidential campaign.
It's not clear what might be stopping Clinton from releasing them immediately on her own. Her spokesman and the State Department have said she never received or transmitted classified information on her private email account, so there should be no concerns about compromising national security.
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222-w-34-(Mark Smith, AP White House correspondent, with Secretary of State John Kerry)--Secretary of State John Kerry says the State Department will move swiftly to review emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote on her personal account when she held his job. AP White House Correspondent Mark Smith reports. (5 Mar 2015)
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217-w-31-(Rita Foley, AP correspondent, with Mark Halperin, Managing Editor, Bloomberg Politics)--Will the revelation that Hillary Clinton used a private email account throughout her term as Secretary of State damage her possible presidential run? AP correspondent Rita Foley has an answer. (5 Mar 2015)
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APPHOTO WX105: FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2013 file photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. The State Department agreed Thursday to review thousands of messages from a private email account that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used for official government business, but it cautioned that the process will move slowly and perhaps take months. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) (23 Jan 2013)
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