You probably also saw that Clinton asked the State Department to release her emails to the public, and they have agreed to do so "as soon as possible."
Now, as the initial controversy over the episode is subsiding, we're beginning to get a clearer picture of what the State Department is doing to get Clinton's emails out of their boxes and into the public record.
The State Department has not put an exact time line on the process, but officials say the full review is expected to take "several months." However, a smaller subset of emails will be released sooner.
That subset contains about 300 emails -- totaling 900 pages -- which have already been turned over to the House Select Committee on Benghazi in response to a request related to their ongoing investigation of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012.
After those have been made public, the department will complete the full review and ultimately release the entire cache of emails.
Well, not everything. The State Department is reviewing the emails to determine what information they can and cannot share with the public.
The review will follow the process laid out by the Freedom of Information Act -- commonly referred to as FOIA -- which includes several categories of information exempted from public release.
Staff at the State Department will have to sort through the 55,000 pages and "redact" any information that meets the exemption criteria before they release them, and it's that redaction process that's holding up the release.
FOIA's webpage lists nine fairly broad categories of exempted information which would be redacted from these emails if it's found. These include everything from trade secrets and confidential financial information to data that would constitute an invasion of personal privacy.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters on Thursday the State Department will also remove any emails "deemed not to be agency records" -- meaning emails that are personal in nature and do not pertain to State Department business.
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