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 The department said in a federal court filing it needed until Feb.
29 after realizing this week that it had "overlooked" emails
amounting to 7,254 printed pages that it should have already shared
with other agencies for them to review for sensitive information.
It said expected heavy snow in Washington, D.C., had interrupted
delivery of these emails to other agencies. Many federal offices
closed early on Friday afternoon.
In a statement, Mark Toner, a department spokesman, said "the
remaining emails are also the most complex to process as they
contain a large amount of material that required interagency
review." He said the department would release as many emails "as
possible" on Jan. 29, the original deadline ordered by the court.
Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential
nomination, sent and received email on a private server in her home
between 2009 and 2013, but this arrangement did not become public
until early 2015.
 The revelation has dogged her campaign. Republicans and other
critics say she was skirting transparency laws and endangered
sensitive government information. Clinton says she did nothing
wrong.
After a government inspector general raised concerns that classified
information may be outside government control, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation took the server and other equipment from at least two
private technology firms that managed Clinton's systems for
examination.
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A little more than 80 percent of the roughly 30,000 work emails
Clinton returned to the State Department in 2014 have now been made
public after Jason Leopold, a VICE News reporter, sued the
department under freedom of information laws.
More than 1,300 of those emails have been partly redacted in the
public release because the State Department says they contain
classified information.
Ryan James, Leopold's lawyer, said he would "vigorously oppose" an
extension.
"I think it is fair to ask how many more extensions is State going
to seek and what's in the remaining emails that requires so much
more time to review and release them?" James wrote in an email.
Spokesmen for Clinton did not respond to a request for comment.
Whether District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras will grant the
extension is unclear, but if he does it will push the release back
until after the casting of votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and
South Carolina, the first four states in the presidential nominating
process.
(Reporting by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Grant McCool and James
Dalgleish)
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