BTW, as I recall even the way they “turned them over” was meant to delay and obfuscate. They printed them out and delivered them, didn’t even deliver them digitally. All then had to be scanned by hand in order to cross-correlate, etc. That takes months.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/11/technology/security/hillary-email-paper/
Another instance where it made no sense. They turned over the paper records and electronically deleted the files. They got to decide what to keep and what to delete (without proper security clearances) If this is not against the law, it should be. They incorrectly stored the deleted classified files on a USB (laws broken the first week, laws broken not handing over emails when exiting State).
And the fact that it slowed down the process by months is mind boggling (I know I read that it did), but am IT. Optical Recognition Technology and proper scripting (text conversion program) could have made a searchable database in a week.