In a federal court filing earlier today, the Associated Press news wire blasted the Obama/Kerry State Department for dragging out the release of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's e-mails.
Reported Politico's Hadas Gold shortly after 3:30 p.m. Eastern (emphases mine):
The State Department, asked to produce Clinton’s public schedule for the duration of her time in office, has said it will need a month to process 400 pages of the material—a pace that, according to AP calculations, would require four years for the department to complete the task.
"AP (and the citizens of this nation) should not have to wait another four years, long after the 2016 election in which Secretary Clinton is a presidential candidate, to receive a full set of her schedules from her tenure as Secretary of State. AP respectfully suggests that a reasonable production schedule would require State to produce all of Secretary Clinton’s ‘mini schedules’ and ‘final schedules’ no later than the Spring of 2016," the AP wrote in court-filed response to the State Department.
None of the Big Three – ABC's World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, and the NBC Nightly News – evening newscasts tonight mentioned, much less devoted a story to, the development.
To be fair, all three network newscasts, anchored from Paris, focused primarily on Friday evening's deadly terrorist attacks. Even so, every newscast paid significant attention to the political disagreement between President Obama and GOP presidential candidates about the wisdom of moving forward with the administration's plans to admit some 10,000 Syrian refugees onto American soil.
