It would take American officials 75 years to finish reviewing thousands of pages of email records belonging to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aides, according to the US State Department.
Department lawyers argue that according to court filings submitted last week compiling the 450,000 requested pages of records for former Clinton aides Cheryl Mills, Jacob Sullivan and Patrick Kennedy would take three quarters of a century, the CNN reported Monday.
“Given the Department’s current [Freedom of Information Act] (FOIA) workload and the complexity of these documents, it can process about 500 pages a month, meaning it would take approximately 16-and-2/3 years to complete the review of the Mills documents, 33-and-1/3 years to finish the review of the Sullivan documents, and 25 years to wrap up the review of the Kennedy documents — or 75 years in total,” the State Department said in the filing.
The statement comes after the Republican…