Shockah! State Dept. asks for extension on Hillary staff emails; Betcha can't guess for how long ...

Sarah D. | 5:36 PM on June 30, 2016

OH COME ON https://t.co/xb893PZNDe

— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair ? (@senatorshoshana) June 30, 2016

We’re sure there’s a very good explanation for this:

BREAKING: State Dept asks court for extension of time to produce HRC staff emails – wants until October 20, 2018

— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) June 30, 2016

And that explanation is corruption.

More from Politico:

Citing the agency’s own errors in the handling of a request for emails of four former aides to Hillary Clinton, the State Department is asking a federal judge to extend the deadline to complete processing of the records by more than two years.

Justice Department lawyers notified U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras on Wednesday that State will be unable to meet the court-ordered deadline of July 21 in the lawsuit the conservative group Citizens United brought earlier this year seeking emails ex-State Department officials Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, Melanne Verveer and Michael Fuchs exchanged with individuals at the Clinton Foundation or a firm with ties to the Clintons, Teneo Consulting.

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“This is totally unacceptable; the State Department is using taxpayer dollars to protect their candidate Hillary Clinton.” [Citizens United President David] Bossie said. “The American people have a right to see these emails before the election. If transparency is truly important to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, they will order the production of all of these records as ordered by the court by July 21, 2016. The conflicts of interest that were made possible by the activities of Hillary Clinton’s State Department in tandem with the Clinton Foundation are of significant importance to the public and the law enforcement community.”