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Correspondence revealing just how involved Secretary Clinton was in pushing the TPP won't be released until late November.
By Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel | Report
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| Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on November 19, 2009. (Photo: US Embassy Kabul Afghanistan) |
The State Department is poised to wait until after the general election to publish informative emails sent and received through a private server by Hillary Clinton during her tenure as top US diplomat.
Correspondence revealing just how involved Secretary Clinton was in pushing the contentious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) won't be released until late November, the International Business Times reported on Monday.
Officials at State initially told reporter David Sirota that his Freedom of Information Act request for Secretary Clinton's messages on TPP would be fulfilled by April of 2016. The department told the IB Times last week, however, that it won't be able to comply with the request until Nov. 31 -- a calendar date which doesn't even exist, as there are only 30 days in the month.
The 12-nation international trade agreement has stalled in Congress with opposition coming from both sides of the political aisle. It has also animated the presidential race with GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump rallying voters in opposition to the trade pact. Republicans on Capitol Hill have, generally speaking, been more supportive of the TPP than Democrats.
The Trump campaign has already seized on the department's stonewalling. The businessman's senior policy advisor, Stephen Miller, said on Monday that "Hillary Clinton's TPP emails should absolutely be released, as her support for TPP threatens to permanently undermine US workers and sovereignty."
He added in a statement to the IB Times that "Hillary is 100 percent controlled by corporate interests, including foreign corporate interests, and it is essential these emails see the light of day."
Following the lead of the Associated Press, major media outlets declared Hillary Clinton the winner of the Democratic Primary on Monday night based on an anonymous survey of superdelegates.
Clinton claimed on the trail last year that she is opposed TPP in its current form. But as Secretary of State in 2012 she stated that the agreement "sets the gold standard in trade agreements."
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