Posted on 06/06/2016 6:18:12 PM PDT by jazusamo
The State Department said it would take 75 years for the release of emails from top aides to Hillary Clinton while she was serving as secretary of State.
Lawyers said it would take that long to compile the 450,000 pages of records from former Clinton aides Cheryl Mills, Jacob Sullivan and Patrick Kennedy, according to a court filing from last week, which was first reported by CNN .
"Given the Department's current [Freedom of Information Act] (FOIA) workload and the complexity of these documents, it can process about 500 pages a month, meaning it would take approximately 16-and-2/3 years to complete the review of the Mills documents, 33-and-1/3 years to finish the review of the Sullivan documents, and 25 years to wrap up the review of the Kennedy documents -- or 75 years in total," the State Department said in the filing.
In March, the Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a pair of lawsuits requesting the release of emails and records from Clinton and her top aides during and after her time at the State Department.
“The Obama administration has failed to comply with records requests in a timely manner as required by law,” Chairman Reince Priebus said in a March statement, noting that the RNC had previously requested the documents from State last October and December.
Priebus cited the FOIA, under which the suits were filed, in calling for full disclosure of the email records.
On Monday, State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau declined to comment about the RNC’s lawsuit, CNN reported, but noted that FOIA requests have increased exponentially since 2008 and explained the difficulty of keeping up with the requests with current staffing and resources.
"The volume of FOIA requests received by the Department has tripled since 2008. In fiscal year 2015 alone we received approximately 22,000 FOIA requests," Trudeau said. "The requests are also frequently more complex and seek larger volumes of documents, requiring significantly more time, resources, and interagency coordination. While we have increased staffing for our FOIA office, our available resources are still nonetheless constrained."
Put Marie Harf on it. Give her something constructive to do.
Another day, another insult to my intelligence.
Take them all and their computers and lock them in prison until they finish
75 years, ya’say? Really?
Well, sounds like you better get started...
Where is Steven Seagal when we need him ?
Time is the best friend of criminals like the Clintons. Data disappears. People forget. Witnesses can’t be located. People die. What was important now becomes a distant memory. Plus, the pesky statutes of limitations.
Time for judges to start jailing high ranking State Department employees. Start with Kerry.
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The FBI has more than enough to get Herself indicted. Let’s put her in jail where she belongs and let the State Department continue to work (allegedly) to release the rest of the emails. We can add to Herself’s sentence as more criminal acts are discovered.
I have an idea, PUT KOSKINEN ON IT! /s
Dog ate my homework.
Yeah, sometimes they shoot themselves in the back of the head.
Well, I really don’t like to call someone a lying SOB, but that’s what these people are.
Absolutely! Worth repeating.
We’re in a slow race to see whether the leftists take full command of the US or if the patriots will take them out first. There will be no other result, since the leftists are not slowing down.
Just put them all out on a public server, and have the public go through and organize the mess in a sort of “folding at home” computer effort.
I don’t see the harm in it. I mean: it’s not like it would endanger national security or anything.
And, if it WOULD endanger national security, why even bother to go through it? Just put her in jail: you just said she was guilty.
And to think the Nixon Presidency ended because of 18.5 minutes of missing ‘tape’ recording.
Put someone competent on it. Say Edward Snowden....
For sure it all depends on how many people you have doing it.
Just more stone walling BS.
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