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."
But when they create regulations that strangle the productivity of the private sector, they fine them if they don't comply.
This scenario should illustrate how bad the strict regulations are for our economy.
These people make the KGB look like hall monitors at the local elementary school.
BS! They have fundraised enough money to pay for thousands to help.
The public office must respond to a public records request in a “reasonable amount of time”. 75 years is not reasonable.
450 THOUSAND pages?
She was only in state for what, 3 years?
All she did was text and email...the whole time?
“if they want to blow her out of the water”
Since her election would be disastrous for us, why would they want to do that?
“This is real obstruction here.”
Oh, hell yes. Warrants should be issued.
I hope Trump gives all the stonewallers and their lawyers 75 years!
Ah yes. That big infallible government I see is doing its usual job of keeping us safe.
Better, Trump needs to latch onto this NOW and just freaking ROAR about it. It demonstrates so many things so God-awful wrong with our gov’t...
Our gov’t could use several less “czars”, but Trump needs to add one: Maybe Sarah Palin as anti-corruption czar. Put Chris Christie in at Attorney General, and maybe Ted Cruz as Special Prosecutor.
But that was before the purple "architects"/(unskilled peter-principled administrative hacks) invented the "agile" work flow process and propped it up atop enormous piles of Newspeak buzzwords and techno-bullshyte.
Now a meeting is typically required every week just to reserve the conference rooms and schedule the meetings for the next week.
P.S. I've implemented several document management systems.
With a few pieces of equipment and a few people I could scan and keyword search all of these documents within a month.
They are full of it - legal offices do this kind of stuff all the time, there is hardware and software to handle this kind of thing, the fed just needs to get out of the stone age technologically.
Dear State-dept L.I.F.E.R. technocrats,
Bullshyte!
Regards,
=HLPhat
Bernie and his millenials could breeze through them in no time at all.
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