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."
You are right. Our “government” has failed us. At least half of the US population is on the wrong side of the law as defined by the usurpers in power. The bigger problem is the “47%” that will continue to vote and take away our assets.
And let's not overlook the fact that the departing criminals will destroy as much evidence as possible on their way out the door.
Plus new administrations want to spend their time and political power implementing their agenda, not tied up in investigations and lawsuits with criminals from the previous administrations.
And don't forget the theft of evidence in the form of classified documents from the National Archives by Clinton henchman Sandy Berger.
He got caught but how many similar thefts and cover-ups go undetected?
They have things called Computers
Time is the best friend of criminals like the Clintons. People die, data disappears, people die, people forget, people die, witnesses can’t be located, people die. What was important now becomes a distant memory, people die. Plus, the pesky statutes of limitations.
On the plus side; there is no statute of limitations on murder, war crimes, murder, defrauding the IRS, murder, and treason...
Assign the Infernal Rectalvue Spvhincterprobghen agents to work on it instead of going after Conservative, Patriot, and Tea Party groups filings.
That will give them something constructive to do for a change!
Argentina? Man, you are generous. I’d peg us somewhere around Honduras or Bangladesh...
Well then they had damn well better get started!
With the Witch’s emails, and what she’s already done with them, talk about “endangering national security” is just about as serious as talk about “jeopardizing the chastity” of a 40 year old, $25.00 a trick truck stop prostitute.
Sorry about that. It’s not allowed. Right? /s
Gee, I wonder if that’s why they are receiving digital emails as hard copy?
And you can bet your last dollar that they found the dumbest, slowest people that they had (which must have in itself been a very difficult task, given the competition) and put them on the project.
Sort of like what I’ve observed in business prior to the Internet era - put the dumbest, slowest people possible in accounts payable.
We can probably get them from the Russians or the Chinese in a few days.
Maybe they have a plan to rescue ambassador Stevens in 35 years.
What REALLY PISSES me off more than ANYTHING is these BASTARDS work for us!!!! WE PAY THEM!!!! I am so DAMED ANGRY I am just beside myself, WE NEED TO STARVE THE BEAST!!! These LYING bastards can seize EVERYTHING we own for NOT paying them YET there are NO consequences to us for out right breaking the laws!!!
1) Some agencies have figured out that it’s cheaper, easier, and gets you in less trouble to post FOIAable documents online, and let folks fish for themselves.
2) Half a million pages isn’t a big production. (Depending on the documents, a half million might be a big production). You use computerized screening and coding both to identify relevant documents, and identify documents that need to be reviewed for privilege redaction.
3) 500 pages a month for emails? That’s one guy working part time reading each one on paper and using post-it notes. It would take an extraordinary person to do 500 emails a day, and a slow guy to need a week for 500, working online and tagging electronically.
I've no doubt at all you're right.
Just more stone walling BS.
At three emails per hour, they must have only one person working on it at DMV speed...:^)
You are right, put them on a public server like they did with Sarah Palin’s 24,000 e-mails. Then the news organizations invited the public to help search them online. Since Hillary said there was nothing classified in them, there should be no problem making them public.
Maybe the computing power at the NSA Nevada facility could be tasked with the job...instead of saving phone/fax/e-mails of all US citizens.
A nice defacto admission.
Why not just release them all at once?
There’s nothing classified there according to H...
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