Yet another batch of emails from Hillary Clinton's personal email server were released Thursday afternoon.
The New Year's Eve news dump included more than 1,200 emails from the former secretary of state's personal email account, which dogged her campaign for the early part of her candidacy.
The release now brings the total number of email pages made public to more than 40,000. That, however, did not meet the court-ordered mandate that the State Department release 43,000 pages by the end of the year. The State Department said it will release more emails next week to account for the missed deadline.
"We have worked diligently to come as close to the goal as possible, but with the large number of documents involved and the holiday schedule we have not met the goal this month," the department said in a release.
The dump of emails came at 4 p.m. EST on New Year's Eve, a time when Americans are unlikely to be reading the news.
Clinton's campaign says it was not up to them when to release the emails, and sought to deflect "snark" on the timing the day before the emails were released. Instead, the court order requires the State Department to release emails every 30 days.
To preempt any snark abt tomorrow's penultimate email release on #NYE: the end-of-month timing is not set by the campaign or State Dept— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) December 31, 2015
Many reporters tweeted snarky responses at the inopportune timing, nonetheless.
Batch of Emails on New Years Eve G H Auld Lang Zyne I— Michael Roston (@michaelroston) December 31, 2015
Overall, many of the emails were heavily redacted, and provided little news to pull out.
But the emails did reveal some insight about what life was like in Clinton's inner circle at the State Department.
Here are three things to digest from Thursday's email dump:
Clinton was perplexed by the viral 'Texts from Hillary' meme
The image of Clinton using her blackberry on a plane while donning sunglasses has become an iconic photo, as well as a meme that launched the "Texts from Hillary" Tumblr account.
But when a State Department diplomat emailed to note the photo went viral, Clinton was perplexed.
"Why now?" she responded. "That was on way to Libya?"
Clinton's former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, assured her the photo was great.
"You look cute," Mills wrote.
Hillary was apparently on her way to Libya in that iconic Texts from Hillary image, per email release pic.twitter.com/8Jod0Mbzum— Emily Cahn (@CahnEmily) December 31, 2015
Riding in cars with Clinton
Philippe Reines, one of Clinton's top advisers, was perturbed that none of his colleagues responded to what he thought was a hilarious flow-chart to determine who rode alongside Clinton on car rides.
"I did NOT/NOT receive sufficient appreciation for the below," Reines wrote in an email. "Only Jake reacted. It took HOURS to get the formatting right. Literally hours to ensure it would work on every size font. Without positive reinforcement I'm not sure I can continue to really invest myself in these missives/diatribes."
Hillary aide "spent hours" putting together a flow chart to determine who could ride in a car with her https://t.co/yD5ksw4VsR— Will Rahn (@willrahn) December 31, 2015
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is a fan
Buried in Clinton's emails are notes from many notable names, including Kissinger — who served as secretary of state under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
At the bottom of a lengthy letter, in which he requested documents from his time at the State Department be declassified, Kissinger hand-wrote a line of praise.
“I greatly admire the skill and aplomb with which you conduct our foreign policy," Kissinger wrote in the Feb. 7, 2012, memo.
Fmr SoS Kissinger is Clinton a fan. “I greatly admire the skill & aplomb with which you conduct our foreign policy." pic.twitter.com/y9MQjvnDAb— Emily Cahn (@CahnEmily) December 31, 2015