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."
Well well. If the snake dept can’t do a three minute release job in 75 years, a job it’s already had a couple years to prepare — it’s one of the most incompetent ( and obviously dishonest - but just taking them at their “word” -— incapable ) agencies ever to afflict planet earth. Let’s shut them down and start over much smaller and with more effective people
They act like none of it is digital.
I assure you that is not the response they gave the FBI.
Just take enough of them to get her 20 years. That will most likely suffice.
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I call BS. I spent 35 years in IT. This is a one week project for a skilled database analyst.
They know they can lie and the media will cover for them.
Now I’m getting angry...
I’d settle for Chuck Norris.
Bump!
Let’s see, it took about 20 minutes to write the 20000 page Obamacare law. Find those folks and we can speed this up considerably.
Let’s look at the math. The government claims it can review and process 500 pages per month or given that government workers work 20 days per month they can process 25 pages per day.
Now lets look at how many documents were created per man day by Hillary’s staff. Mrs Clinton and her team were in office 4 years. 240 working days per year times 3 people times 4 years equals 2880 working days.
The government says they created 450,000 documents in those 2880 working days. Divide 450,000 by 2880 working days equals 156.25 documents produced per working day.
The math tells us these three brilliant government employees of Hillary produced 156.25 documents each per working day, or 19.5 pages per hour each. Yet the government worker(s) assigned to review the documents can only read and process 25 pages per day or 3.12 pages per hour.
I cannot recall a situation where it took longer to write a document than to read the same document. In this case we are being told it takes 4 times as long to read a page as it does to produce the page. Sorry, the math doesn’t work. Hopefully the judge will call them on it.
” but noted that FOIA requests have increased exponentially since 2008 “
I wonder why ?
I predict ‘vigilante justice’ in our future. And worldwide. That’s what happens when ‘justice’ becomes whatever they want it to be.....irregardless of the ‘law of the land’. We’re at that point, I fear.
Anarchy.
Worry for my kids.
I believe Marie is busy......lining up jobs for terrorists.
Maybe a coincidence but I think not. :)
Maybe they printed out those pages in 48 point font, quadruple spaced with four inch margins on the sides, top and bottom. A page is not a page is not a page. If they’re going that slow, they should send in some over the hill, seasoned secretaries and the Marines to take over - it’s that important. Have they digitized them?
I think you meant “...longer to read a document than to write the same document.”
A valid point.
“Let’s shut them down and start over much smaller and with more effective people”
Uh, oh. We’ve had an eruption of good sense.
So its more plausible to build maybe 10 hoover dams before they can get all her emails together.
What a crock.
Just sharpen the guillotines already.
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