State Department to release more Hillary Clinton emails Saturday
Under pressure from a federal judge, the State Department is planning to release 550 of Hillary Clinton's emails from her private server this Saturday on its website.
Last month, the department failed to meet a court-ordered deadline for the emails' full public release -- the emails have been released in batches every month since June to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests. The government was supposed to finish its publication of Clinton's emails by Jan. 29, but the deadline was later moved back one month after the State Department requested more time to process the documents.
In a federal filing Tuesday, the department said that the Saturday release would make up 14 percent of the remaining pages. The rest of the documents are still proceeding through the department's internal review process.
"The Department is committed to releasing former Secretary Clinton's emails as expeditiously as possible while also protecting sensitive information and consistent with our FOIA obligations," a State Department official told CBS News in a statement.
The news comes more than a week after the State Department confirmed for the first time that Clinton's email server contained 22 "top secret" emails.
And last week, the State Department inspector general revealed he had discovered that former Secretary of State Colin Powell and aides to his successor Condoleezza Rice had confidential and secret information in their personal emails. Powell rejected the claims and said they were unclassified at the time and should be considered unclassified now.
Earlier this week, Clinton, a Democratic presidential candidate, lost a key state primary in New Hampshire to rival Bernie Sanders. According to exit poll results, Clinton lost support from voters who believed she was not as honest and trustworthy as the Vermont senator.
CBS News' Margaret Brennan contributed to this report.