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."
I could actually see it taking longer to read an email 4 years after it was written than it took to write it. Typically, the person writing the email and the recipient have some degree of context concerning what the email was about, whereas someone reading it 4-8 years later would not have that context.
It may also be that the people reading the emails at State have to compare the emails to guides concerning what is not for public release and what is available for public release. I also suspect that they are having a regular employee who has other tasks to complete respond to the FOIA requests.
Finally, because of computers and the internet, the sheer volume of documents that get produced these days is very high and it would not shock me if the government has not quite gotten around to figuring out how to handle it since they seem so bad at figuring out how to handle things they have a motivation to get right.
Total bs. Kinko’s has a division that process those suvkers in about one week. These clowns are completely off base.
Correction the physical plant I saw at Kinko”s could scan 1,000,000 sheets of paper per day.
Whoever told them 75 years needs jail time.
You think it would take the IRS that long to go through that many documents belonging to a conservative?
It is a mystery. If it would take 75 years for the State Department to assemble and read the material....how did Hillary read it in four years? She must have been ‘blasted’ with 10,000 emails per day. Must be all that yoga-traffic.
We have an illegitimate criminal government filled with fascist degenerate “workers”. Truly pathetic.
I would walk into that dept and say you got 7 days to print em all in sequence or your all fired period end of story...
>> it would take 75 years
Explains the time it took to respond to the Benghazi siege and murders...
Incarcerate the scumbags.
WHAT... ON STONE FRICKING TABLETS..... ON ROPE KNOT THING THE INCAS USED.....ON ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HEIRYLOGLYPHS.....ON SUMERIAN CLAY TABLETS..... PASSED DOWN BY CAVE MEN BY FIRESIDE....
THE HELL....
Perhaps a modest bounty for any/all Clinton documents can be established for a selective and public reading for we of the hoi polloi?
Yep - with that kind of efficiency, they would still be counting hanging chads in Florida.....they must need the extra time to concoct suitable lies for all the bad looking evidence....
It takes a long time when you have to read and redact each document.
Wouldn’t be surprised if the Russians or Chinese are sitting on a full copy of Clinton’s emails. They can either disclose a few choice ones if they want to blow her out of the water, or better yet, hold onto them as blackmail.
Can I try this excuse with IRS on my tax audit?
If this were a Republican they would have an army of lawyers and IT specialists working on it 24/7.
Pfft..
If Nixon were a democrat, he would have finished his term. Republicans are the ones who eat their own. They are doing it with Trump and they’ve been doing it for decades.
Spineless disgraces.
Outsource it to India.
What exactly is the point of retaining records if you can’t produce them when needed?
What a steaming pile of BS.
Catch a clue.
All deleted. Digital Heaven.
IMO,This is obstruction of justice far beyond what Nixon was alleged to have done when his secretary ,Rose Mary Woods, accidentally erased 18 minutes of innocuous conversation not even in context of the break in headed up without Nixon’s knowledge by John Dean, white House Counsel. This is real obstruction here. Where is the FBI? Where is WAPO?
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