The final 3,800 pages of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails will be released later today.
But the most serious controversy surrounding the Democratic presidential frontrunner's exclusive use of a private email account — connected to a server she set up in the bathroom of her New York home — to conduct official government business is far from over. In fact, the worst of it probably lies ahead.
The 30,000 emails the State Department released over the past 10 months in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by VICE News in January 2015 did not contain any smoking guns about Clinton's tenure at State. But it was the emails the department deemed too sensitive to publicly disclose that attracted the most attention from the media and Clinton's detractors — and they will continue to do so.
More than 1,800 emails were withheld under exemptions to the FOIA law, including nearly 50 that were not released because they were deemed Top Secret and Secret. VICE News is currently fighting in federal court for a summary of the information contained in those emails.
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