Posted on 06/08/2016 8:31:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
State Department spokesman Mark Toner defended its estimate that it would take 75 years to release the emails from Hillary Clinton’s top aides during her time as secretary of state on Tuesday. He noted that the RNC’s court filing contained an “enormous amount of FOIA requests” that are “very complex.”
“It’s a very broad range involving a number of people over a period of four years,” he said. “It’s not an outlandish estimation believe it or not.”
In March, the RNC filed a pair of lawsuits seeking the emails after having failed to receive the documents from State in requests filed last October and December.
“The Obama administration has failed to comply with records requests in a timely manner as required by law,” Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement at the time.
The RNC's FOIA request is seeking emails from three of Clinton's former aides: Cheryl Mills, Jacob Sullivan and Patrick Kennedy.
"Given the Department's current [Freedom of Information Act] 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 argued in the filing.
Well, I think Hillary should be imprisoned for about that long, so I guess I could live with that.
All of the State Dept. spokesspeople are so smarmy but Toner takes the cake.
Throw these bums in jail...and take away any benefits. Better yet, waterboard them, seize their assets and exile them. Criminals all.
"We are hiring thousands of Islamic terrorists with the "lost" 10 billion dollars.
By allah, for our waiting even one year America will die, and this will be moot."
I suggest we tell the IRS the same thing.
From what I understand, Kinko’s can process 1,000,000 pages per day.
If they had required digital it would take fifteen milliseconds to sort through it all, and then they'd have to indict her.
The US State Department has 11,000 employees. Task each employee with reviewing ten document per day.
This should really piss off people, for a variety of reasons. But chief among them is that it is even more proof they think we are so stupid that we would believe such tripe as this.
I bet the hacker Guccifer could provide them to us much more quickly...
Pure, naked smirking evil.
The judge needs to jail people for contempt. Say for 75 years.
The time has come to awake Van Winkle!
Except, after they got the hard copies, they received the server itself. So they have all the electronic copies as well.
500 pages a month.
30 days in a month.
Maybe Hillary’s State Department hires college graduates who can only read 20 pages a day?
Heck! Doing more would require reading 3 pages an hour!
Hildabeast can sit in a holding cell for the duration.
Maybe if they weren’t so corrupt at every turn, they would have less work complying with reasonable legal requests.
IOW they’re doubling down on their initial `Eff off! We’re the federal government.’
Something like that.
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