Some people raised eyebrows when in response to a freedom of information request the state department said it would take 75 years to review a Clinton aide’s emails.
Mind you, that’s not a review of all the emails, just some of them.
In a follow-up report, the state departments says its 75-Year Estimate “Not Outlandish”
The State Department on Tuesday defended its claim that releasing all the emails sought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) would take 75 years.
“It’s not an outlandish estimation, believe it or not,” spokesman Mark Toner told reporters Tuesday.
“It’s an enormous amount of FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] requests,” he added. “Very broad and very complex.”
The RNC has sued the State Department under FOIA, seeking all emails to or from four aides to former Secretary Hillary Clinton from 2009 to 2013.
The State Department has claimed that the result would yield roughly 1.5 million pages of documents that it and other federal agencies would need to go through page-by-page.
After discussion with the government, the RNC offered to impose some limits on the subject matter and dates of the emails of three aides, to pare the list of emails down to roughly 450,000 pages.
Since the State Department expected that it could process roughly 500 pages per month, processing all 450,000 pages would take 900 months, or 75 years.
And that doesn’t include emails of Bryan Pagliano, the IT expert believed to have set up and maintained Clinton’s private email server throughout her tenure at the State Department.
Nothing to Hide
Productivity Math
- 500 pages a month.
- 20 working days a month.
- 25 pages a day.
- 3.125 pages per hour
Some may find that hard to believe. However, we are talking about government bureaucrats that have a vested interest in not releasing any data.
It could easily take twice that long.
In 75 years, how many of those documents could possibly be security risks of any kind? Nonetheless, if given the mandate, bureaucratic wizards probably would take the time, and then some.
Can a robot do this somehow? Then again, what the heck is the RNC going to do with 1.5 million pages most of which are likely nothing but complete drivel.
This whole thing would best be handled by an indictment by the FBI. There is already plenty of evidence for that.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
No, it won’t take 75 years, and yes, there is an program for this.
75 ‘dog years’?……
You mean, Wikileaks? They could do it in a fraction the time. RNC should send them its request.
Actually, we have systems that scan and categorize such things. More to the point, however, federal law requires all records be kept accessible for FOI and Audit purposes. What DoS is admitting here is that they are not in compliance with FITARA, FISMA, and Privacy Act requirements. Now, we know that to be the case when an employee is able to go around IT systems in the first place. Incompetence could be an adequate explanation for non-compliance, but incompetence does not explain an organized, agency wide, cover up attempt.
“Incompetence” is not a legal excuse.
Book her, Dan-o.
Over my life time, the so called “State Department” has become totally anti the U.S. Constitution and anti their defined purpose.
It was awfully clever of Hellary to write those emails in English as the only language apparently spoken, read, or understood at the State Department is EBONICS. Way to go, Hellary!
FBI seeks 2nd secret filing in Clinton email case…
http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/06/fbi-offers-second-secret-filing-in-clinton-email-suit-223973
PREDICTION: CALIFORNIA WILL GO FOR BERNIE IN A LANDSLIDE TUESDAY Hellery will be finished and then indicted shortly thereafter.
No more Mrs. Inevitability: Former Bill Clinton pollster Doug Schoen says there is now more than a theoretical chance Hillary ‘may not be the Democratic nominee’ Pollster Doug Schoen writes that Hillary Clinton’s inevitability will be ‘eviscerated’ if she loses the California primary on Tuesday.
Nope
Clinton Cover-Up: 5 Shocking Revelations From Hillary’s Email Audit
Just how much did Hillary Clinton’s staffers know about her unauthorized private email use? A new State Department audit has claimed that not only did her team know, but also, that they may have violated federal laws in helping her do it! RadarOnline.com has a look at the most bombshell revelations from the 78-page report.
http://radaronline.com/photos/hillary-clinton-email-audit-revelations/photo/1301162/
As an outstanding and brilliant Supreme Court Justice once said…
“SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT.”
And today and tomorrow Hellery gets a HUGE DOSE OF BRIGHT SUNLIGHT.
And the wicked witch will MELT INTO THE PAVEMENT.
BERNIE WINS CALIFORNIA. HELLERY GOES DOWN IN TOTAL DEFEAT.
Hillary Indictment On Federal Racketeering Charges?
According to Huguenard, Obama-appointed FBI chief James Comey will recommend Attorney General Loretta Lynch treat “the Clinton Foundation (as) an ongoing criminal enterprise engaged in money laundering and soliciting bribes in exchange for political, policy and legislative favors to individuals, corporations and even governments both foreign and domestic.”
Strong stuff if only partly true! Huguenard cites credible evidence, indicating the Clinton Foundation is largely a money laundering, influence peddling racket.
Less than 10% of “tens of millions of dollars donated” went for charitable purposes, the rest for self-enrichment.
“There is ample evidence already in the public record that the Clinton Foundation qualifies as a criminal enterprise and there’s no doubt that the FBI is privy to significantly more evidence than has already been made public,” said Huguenard.
http://rense.com/general96/hillindictFedRaq.htm
Hillary Clinton to be Indicted on Federal Racketeering Charges
James Comey and The FBI will present a recommendation to Loretta Lynch, Attorney General of the Department of Justice, that includes a cogent argument that the Clinton Foundation is an ongoing criminal enterprise engaged in money laundering and soliciting bribes in exchange for political, policy and legislative favors to individuals, corporations and even governments both foreign and domestic.
http://uspolitics24.com/hillary-clinton-indicted-federal-racketeering-charges/
THE ENTIRE CLINTON FOUNDATION IS A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
Bill, Hellery, and Chelsea should all be arrested for racketeering and running a criminal enterprise called the Clinton Foundation to which multiple RICO charges should be added to each of the myriad of offenses for each of them.
I believe the FBI only investigates; it doesn’t indict.
I think you are correct, David. The FBI would submit the evidence to the US Attorney General for indictment and prosecution. Given the record of the US Attorney General not investigating the fraud and corruption in the present administration, Hitlery seems to have nothing to worry about. Except that is, unless maybe the American people start showing some intelligence and not ignoring all the Clinton lies and scandals.
“The problem with democracy is: the voters will get the leaders they deserve”.
What If Bernie Wins California?
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/bernie-sanders-california-primary-213940
Clinton Email Scandal: Hillary Could Face A 10-Year Prison Stint If Her Server Was Hacked
http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/clinton-e-mail-scandal-hillary-could-face-a-10-year-prison-stint-if-her-server-was-hacked/
Hillary Posted Names of Hidden Intelligence Officials On Her Email…
Clinton IT Witness Ordered To Produce Immunity Agreement…
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/federal-judge-orders-clinton-witness-produce-reported-immunity-agreement-legal-basis-fifth-amendment-claims/
CUFFS FOR CANKLES 2016 and her conspirators such as Cheryl Mills and that woman Huma.
STATE DEPARTMENT THROWS HELLERY UNDER THE BUS FOR HER MASSIVE LIES
Hillary Clinton clobbered by State Department audit: Report finds she kept hacker attacks on her server SECRET, failed to hand over emails – and she and aides stonewalled inspector general
Hillary never sought approval for her private email setup from senior information officers – who would have refused the request because of security risks, an inspector general report says. The IG also found no evidence that lawyers had reviewed Clinton’s document-retention procedures to make sure the law was followed. Clinton, along with her top deputies Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan, and Huma Abedin, all refused to meet with investigators, the report’s authors complained. Worse for Clinton as she weathers new pressures on her presidential campaign, the audit found evidence of several hacking attempts on her private email server – and determined that she never reported them to the State Department’s cybersecurity experts.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3608941/State-Dept-audit-faults-Clinton-emails.html
They all say the same thing anyway, ‘ … we’re in this together.’ , and Mish can prove it.
You know if she wasn’t a woman…and the last dude who claimed to be Black…I might agree with this.
Oddly she keeps claiming to be “just a woman” to women just like the last guy claimed “I’m a black guy just like you.”
I would think that would be so obvious as to not need pointing out…and of course the oddity of “I’m a White Guy who hates everybody…and am on the record as such” does stand out as popular to me.
You’d think HIS opponents might pick up on that….but no, “I’m a victim here! Vote for me! Sinister Cabals are at work!
Now never mind MY sinister Cabal! We’re all victims here! Never forget that!…
They probably decided to delay producing the indictable evidence for 75 years because by then all the co-conspirators will be dead.
The US intelligence operatives and their informants have already been compromised. Hackers claim to have accessed Hilary’s server many years ago (and its public record that they had her “private” email address).
Maybe the reason Putin knew Obama’s every move in Syria / Ukraine is because the GRU (whatever the KGB is now called?) already knew the names of the high level intelligence officers in Europe courtesy of Hillary. And from those, they could easily get the names of lower level officers, informants, etc.
To quote the Russian intelligence service’s copy of Victoria Nuland’s state department phone call: “F&ck the EU!” So the list of compromised State and CIA officers goes far beyond what Hillary “accidentally” released
KGB is now FSB; Federal Security Bureau.
KGB, GRU, FSB … Sesame Street Co-op.
You are trying to distract from the real point: The US intelligence networks all over Eastern Europe and the Middle East were compromised. The hacker “guccifer” (and apparently many others) had Hillary’s email address, which means he also had the server’s IP address. The server was not encrypted, and state department officials say Hilary’s email account didn’t even have a password.
So to your side point: the ***FSB*** has complete, unredacted copies of everything Hilary sent by email. Names, locations, family events, informants. Everything.
Its the worst intelligence breach since Aldrich Ames, and every US intelligence official knows it even if they won’t say so publicly. Every current and potential informant knows it too.
The FBI is probably a wholly owned subsidiary of the Clinton Plantation. LHO, where are you when we need you?
perhaps some of these jokers could help the State departments 56,000 employees to get through more than 3 pages a day.
https://careers.state.gov/learn/what-we-do/mission
The Department’s Civil Service, totaling more than 11,000 employees, provides continuity and expertise in accomplishing all aspects of the Department’s mission. There are also more than 45,000 locally employed Foreign Service staff at overseas posts.
http://www.allgov.com/departments/department-of-state?detailsDepartmentID=575
According to the federal website, USAspending.gov, the State Department spent $30.8 billion from 2000-2008 on private contracts. More than 80,000 companies and other organizations were paid by the State Department for a variety of goods and services ranging from building construction ($5.5 billion) to guard services ($1.7 billion).
The top 10 recipients of State Department contracts are:
Veritas Capital Management II LLC $4,156,962,997
Lockheed Martin Corporation $1,183,415,679
Caddell Construction Co. $933,497,273
Blackwater Lodge and Training Center, Inc. $805,156,795
BL Harbert Holdings, LLC $720,614,502
Fluor Corporation $578,405,014
First Kuwaiti General Trading and Contracting Co. $500,776,199
G4s PLC $490,613,999
Computer Sciences Corporation $433,316,984
Triple Canopy Inc $418,051,498
Nothing says “Veritas” like Diplomacy.
Let’s see, four aides, four years, 16 man years – that is ALL it TOOK them to build this volume of email. Therefore, if the government puts 16 people on it – I am SURE the RNC would pay for it – the work would be done in 1 year.
Additionally, the MAJORITY of the emails are PROBABLY copies to ALL 4 – so, ACTUALLY, you could probably get it done in 3 months, in time for the election.
Both the FBI and the State Department have serious credibility problems now.
Don’t forget that foreign powers all have copies of Clinton’s email server (certainly the Russians and Chinese do courtesy of that “guccifer” hacker, and probably many other countries).
How safe will State department and CIA operatives be, operating in foreign countries under foreign espionage laws? Its not a question of “IF” the cover was blown, its only a question of “WHEN”.
And once the foreign intelligence services got the names of the higher ranking case officers (that is who would be on SecState’s radar) — they are easy to follow and get the names of the entire US intelligence network on the ground… including foreign citizens that are working with US agencies. And foreign services have had years since Hilary’s server was breached to track down the entire network.
Hilary (and Bill) had no idea that all 19 of the 9/11 highjackers had entered the country before his term ended — and that was before Hilary released the names of operatives and contacts everywhere.
Domestically, Hilary may or may not be convicted in a court of law — but she will either be the next OJ Simpson (as a matter of law, he is “not guilty” also), or Hilary will be dressed in an orange jumpsuit.
Either way, all CIA and state department operatives are as good as dead / captured. Already. No matter what happens in any election.
Their biggest problem is that theyre a bunch of Nobodies relative to the Wars they’ve started and will never end.
You want to invade Russia and ask for an opinion on the matter from the Justice Department?
That ain’t the American People who have a problem if that’s the case.
“The United States Marshal Service will now Forward Deploy to Kandahar Province in order to effect this power grab…”
Yeah!
Get some Supreme Court of the United States you!
Oh, no! It’s 4 on 4!
So much for them!
“Government efficiency” : an oxymoron, just like “military intelligence”.
The Russians, Israelis, Chicoms and who knows who else have them. Pay them for the analysis they presented their people.
The Perfect End to Democratic primary: Anonymous Superdelegates Declare Winner Through Media. Glenn Greenwald.
https://theintercept.com/2016/06/07/perfect-end-to-democratic-primary-anonymous-super-delegates-declare-winner-through-media/
They can’t release any classified email anyway. What’s the point?
exactly
The only thing they would release is silliness. Millions of pages worth – an still redacted.
Goring had no problem coming clean at Nuremberg.
He was on trial for his life and regularly offered the option of Suicide by the most unprofessional prison guards in human History.
He chose not to hide anything remarkably.
Sadly these folks think they’re hiding something more than their Dishonor.
Well…History has a word for these people…and “merely dead” aint one as that’s simply assumed in these matters.
These matters are never to be made a matter for “private privilege” not because your loyalty is being “merely questioned” but precisely BECAUSE you are disloyal.
These regulations exist so hopefully you “die well.”
Sadly The Clinton’s dont appear to have gotten the memo.
So You Go Girl™
“A date that will live in Infamy” indeed…
Reblogged this on John Barleycorn and commented:
Slow walking corruption investigations is a trademark of this administration.
F*cking Liar. Since the DNC have thrown Bernie under the bus (This fake “love fest” over Bernie is HALARIOUS!-Halariously FAKE). I will vote for the lesser to 2 evils-TRUMP!