Posted on 11/09/2015 9:30:01 PM PST by doug from upland
This is actually one of the least substantive points made by defenders of Hillary Clinton in the e-mail scandal, but Glenn Kessler's fact check makes a couple of important points. The media has often repeated the claim by Hillary and her team that the State Department has estimated that it could have found 90-95% of her e-mails by checking the server for those cc'd on the messages. Not only is that Hillary's estimation and not State's, it's demonstrably false in any case:
First of all, the State Department is correct. The "90 to 95 percent" figure comes from the Clinton campaign. There has never been a calculation made by the State Department of the 55,000 pages of the e-mails provided by Clinton from her private e-mail account. So Clinton got that wrong.
"Of the more than 30,000 e-mails that Secretary Clinton provided to the State Department last year, more than 90 percent were sent to or from a state.gov e-mail address," a Clinton campaign spokesman said. "That is observable by looking at the e-mails that were provided for release by the department. These messages would have been captured in the State Department's record system. It has since been learned that the State Department's archiving system did not maintain every e-mail, but that does not change that these messages were captured by State's system and thus should have been available."
Let's unpack that statement. Essentially, Clinton's lawyers looked through the e-mails and found that at least one person in the e-mail chain -- either sending an e-mail to Clinton or receiving it -- had a state.gov e-mail address. So in theory, if a search was requested of the e-mails of person who corresponded with Clinton, Clinton's e-mails would have shown up.
However ...
The problem is, of course, that a requested search of Clinton's e-mails would have turned up nothing, because she did not maintain a state.gov account. That's why the State Department had trouble finding her e-mails in response to congressional and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in the first place.
Exactly. Searches for e-mails in response to legal inquiries would necessarily focus on the sender's account, or that of a direct recipient. The decision not to use an official State Department e-mail account meant that Hillary's e-mails would not be found in FOIA or Congressional demands -- and that was the entire point of using a private server. Media outlets and activists filed numerous FOIA requests for those e-mails while Hillary was Secretary of State, and she allowed State to falsely represent to several federal courts that there were no records responsive to those requests.
That includes the Congressional inquiries as well. Congress held several hearings on multiple investigations of the sacking of the Benghazi consulate, and the State Department launched its Accountability Review Board probe. Hillary and her team said nothing about the private e-mail server, and only admitted to it when the current Select Committee on Benghazi discovered it in August 2014. It was only then that the State Department belatedly demanded the contents of Hillary's server, and only then that Hillary provided the e-mails that she decided they could have.
This claim has been used by Hillary and her defenders as a smoke screen, a way to claim transparency where none existed before the select committee forced it on Hillary. For years, she misled Congress and federal courts to hide her communications even though both have legitimate oversight over the executive branch. Kessler's fact check on this silly claim provides another reason to remind everyone of this base deception.
Hitlery has been lying since before she said “ I do..”
Espionage.
If she were to be elected President, God help the USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msLcjA3yXzo
We have video of her from 15 years ago that explains the whole thing was planned.
It is frightening. But will there even be a country left by Jan 20, 2017?
I would estimate that even Al Capone was law abiding 90-95% of the time.
Even more frightening. She will still not be in jail.
This assumes that all other Government employees follow the law and use government email accounts. We know that Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills both had clintonmail accounts on her server.
Thanks doug from upland.Now, what about the pinocchios here:
Hillary Clinton: People Are Fleeing Syria Because of "Climate Change"
Just three? How’s about 900?
That would be better. Or 9,000.
Seriously, I have my doubts. The economic debt bomb will not be avoided nor corrected.
Jeb can’t fix it (not that you said that). Shocking, I know.
You cannot top the lies these folks come up with.
She has been lying since she said, “Ma ma.”
But it is not like she used the word scholarship instead of appointment or something serious like that.
The Washington Compost may give her three Pinocchios, but they will still endorse her for President.
Speaking of which, has Fox News declared Trump the loser of the debate yet?
Pray America wakes
“Hillary is running for a lot of reasons—one of ‘em is because she wants to stay out of jail.”
Trump added that, “if we had honest government, Hillary wouldn’t be allowed to run.”
Trump mentioned that General David Patreaus got two years probation for sharing classified information with his mistress “and he was somebody that everybody liked, everybody respected.”
“What [Hillary Clinton] did is so much worse,” Trump said. “If I win, we’re going to look into that crime very, very seriously folks.”
Her father yelled at her pregnant mother’s swollen belly..... are you a girl or a boy?
hillary thought from the womb...... I think I’m a man
They'll try to be subtle about it, using the "expectations" game. Perhaps they'll bring the Kraut over to offer some deep-sounding pronouncements why Trump has already lost.
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