Watchdog Accuses State Department of Slow-Rolling Release of Chelsea Clinton Emails

Free Beacon ^ | June 23, 2016 | Alana Goodman

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Citizens United: 'The public has a right to inspect these emails before November' A watchdog group asked a federal court on Thursday to order the State Department to expedite its release of Chelsea Clinton-related records, arguing that at the current rate it would take the department 38 years to produce all the documents.

Citizens United has been suing the State Department to turn over correspondence between department officials and Chelsea Clinton, who used the pseudonym “Diane Reynolds” in many of her emails. It is also asking for emails between State Department officials and the Clinton family’s long-time aides Amitabh Desai, Justin Cooper, and Oscar Flores.

The D.C. district court ordered the State Department to release portions of the records to Citizens United on a rolling basis every four weeks, but did not specify an end date to complete the production.

On June 1, the State Department said it had found nearly 4,000 documents responsive to the Citizens United request, but over the past two months it has released just 17 of them.

“Thus, in the past two months, Defendant has produced only 17 documents out of a reported total of 3,924, and at a rate of only 127 pages per month,” said Citizens United in the motion to modify the production order on Thursday. “At this rate, it would take Defendant more than 38 years to complete production to Plaintiff.”

The group asked the court to “modify its order of April 19, 2016, to require that, in each subsequent four-week document production, Defendant review at least 2,000 pages of documents for production to Plaintiff, producing all non-exempt documents.”

Citizens United says it is in the public’s interest to review correspondence between Chelsea Clinton and State Department officials before the presidential election, due to Chelsea’s senior role at the Clinton Foundation.

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Some emails between Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton were released in an unrelated document production by the State Department. In one of these messages, Hillary told her daughter on the night of the Benghazi attack that it was carried out by an “al Qaeda-like group.”

[piroque]

BTTT

[Patriot Babe]

Oh Oh.....oooooo not good at all

[aposiopetic]

Hillary told her daughter on the night of the Benghazi attack that it was carried out by an “al Qaeda-like group.”

That had gotten really upset watching YouTube.

[Ann Archy]

But St. Chelsea is a MOM and Hillary is a GRANDMA.....

[Two Kids' Dad]

I wonder what the actual number of views that video got before the story broke. Guessing fewer than 1,000. It was the blame shift that made it popular and spawned the copycats.

[stars & stripes forever]

Why would CHELSEA need a pseudo name DIANE REYNOLDS for her mother’s PRIVATE server?

[aposiopetic]

Probably just the moviemaker himself refreshing the page.

[kitchen]

There was post claiming less than 10 views before the white hut came up with it as an excuse. How many of those views were on computers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or foggy bottom is unknown.

[Busko]

The so-called daughter of the rapist should be dragged into a cell for a nice stretch! She is nothing but a buffer for her sow!