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.
I think you meant “...longer to read a document than to write the same document.”
A valid point.
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.