State Department Still Needs to Process 40,000 Hillary Emails
It’s recovered 72,000 emails in total.
Judicial Watch announced today that the State Department told a federal court that officials still need to process 40,000 out of 72,000 emails that belonged to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The watchdog organization filed a lawsuit to receive her emails in May 2015. The department has only processed 32,000 and released a small amount of those.
Judicial Watch reported:
The hearing focused on the State Department’s progress on processing the tens of thousands of emails Clinton failed to disclose when she served as Secretary of State, some of which were emails sent by Clinton aide Huma Abedin that were found on the laptop of her estranged husband Anthony Weiner. The State Department has processed 32,000 pages of emails so far, a small number of which have been released, but 40,000 pages remain to be processed.
Judicial Watch asked the court to require the State Department to identify any records from the seven FBI discs that it intends to withhold, and why, in a timely manner. The State Department disclosed to the Court that it was adding extra resources to its FOIA operation but would not commit to a faster production of the Clinton emails. On October 19, Judge Boasberg ordered the State Department to “explain how its anticipated increase in resources will affect processing of records in this case and when the processing of each disk is likely to be completed.” Surprisingly, the Tillerson State Department and Sessions Justice Department previously argued to the court that there was diminished public interest in the Clinton emails.
In November 2016, the State Department was ordered to produce no less than 500 pages of records a month to Judicial Watch, emails of which the FBI found in its investigation into Clinton’s non-government email system. The State Department has produced 23 batches of documents so far. At the current pace, the Clinton emails and other records won’t be fully available for possible release until at least 2020.
The organization even had harsh words for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson:
“Secretary Tillerson should be asked why his State Department is still sitting on a motherlode of Clinton emails,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It is disheartening that an administration elected to ‘drain the swamp’ is stalling the release of documents to protect Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration.”
The press release from Judicial Watch also mentioned that in another lawsuit the department admitted to the organization that “it received 2,800 Huma Abedin work-related documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that were found on her estranged husband Anthony Weiner’s personal laptop.”
Last week, the FBI announced that it found even more emails on Weiner’s computer. Remember, almost a year ago around this time, the FBI said that it found communications on Weiner’s computer during its investigation of him sexting with an underage girl.
The State Department said it hopes to release these emails by December 31, 2017.
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I’m singing “Emails are Forevah” to the tune of the James Bond theme song of “Diamonds are Forever.”
Never knew discussion of yoga and bridal gifts could be sooo voluminous. Maybe a new reality program… “Emails of the Rich and Famous.” Let’s face it “Keeping up with the Clintons” has been one of the longest TV runs ever. Supporting cast comes and goes.. and when they write someone out the the show… they are really written off.
One must consider how hard it must be to find people with a strong enough stomach and gag reflex to wade through those Hillary yoga emails.
The Freedom of Information act is a fucking joke. Government officials straight up ignore requests, miss deadlines ordered by courts, or ‘lose’ documents. All with no consequences or repurcussions.
Until these pukes are held personally liable for failure to comply with the law its going to continue to be a joke.
One of Hillary’s privately stated reasons for using the private server was to avoid FOIA requests.
One would think that such a violation showed intent, and that there would be some significant repercussions to prevent flagrant avoidance of government transparency laws and rules.
That must be examined, and changed.
Failing that, mens rea standards must be significantly redefined for all citizens to match government officials’.
I thought the reply to Congress and the FOIA request (both to Judge and Judicial Watch) was that they had gone through ALL of them, already!
Funny how a new administration can suddenly bring on a new “finding” of emails of the now departed administration……
Put. Them. ALL. In. Jail. For. Life. – Hillary. Huma. Susan Rise. ValJar. Holder. Obama. DWS, and the Pakistani hackers-on-the-payroll, too!
Running out the clock with help from Sessions and company. Yeah. That swamp is draining real fast.
“Hopes” to release…
I “hope” to find a million dollars, too.
We’ve discovered now that Mueller and Comey were complicit along with Clinton and Obama in what is tantamount to treason.
Which, seems to be leading to Session’s complicity.
Which is leading to the reason why Sessions won’t indict Clinton.
Forget MS-13, AG Sessions: they’re small-time gangsters. While you’re selling out your country, elected and appointed gangsters of unimaginable corruption are looting our nation from within.