Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Department

[jimbo]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

That does not change the time spent on a freedom of information request. The Republican National Committee could file that request regardless of where the emails were stored. There is no particular reason the RNC needs them as a part of the investigation either. They're just trying to dig up dirt above and beyond what the internal investigation is already looking for. Which coincidentally is a good reason to have a private email server for personal correspondence with non-classified information. It would actually save some time on a freedom of information request by not requiring staff to sift through trivial nonsense.

Several problems with your assertions. The problem is that Hillary used a private unsecured server as her only email server. That is not in question. Hillary has admitted as much and State has confirmed. It is not up to you or I to decide what is pertinent to the investigation and neither Hillary nor State has been forthcoming as to the location and content of the emails. First denying they ever existed, then that they were not sensitive or classified, than that they were classified after Hillary received them. Now it's just too much bother to retrieve them.

Regarding separate emails for private and public e mails, that's not only a good idea, that's what supposed to happen. Hillary didn't do that. Hillary did not use two e mail servers. In fact one her excuses was that she had already gone through her emails (which apparently didn't take 75 years) and deleted only personal e mails and remitted the rest. Doesn't this suggest that private and SOS related were intermingled? And more important that private users had access to her job related e mail server and account?

There is no rule that FOI requests must be limited to only those requests that can be honored in a few minutes.

 

[iguanaman]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

Do you have any clue how long it takes to not only read 450,000 pages of email, but get a decision on what if anything with in them might need to be redacted? For conservatives who seem to think government is incredibly slow and inefficient you seem to have a very high expectation of expediency on a request of this magnitude.

Not to mention that this is yet another fishing expedition.

 

[mike2810]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

Do you have any clue how long it takes to not only read 450,000 pages of email, but get a decision on what if anything with in them might need to be redacted? For conservatives who seem to think government is incredibly slow and inefficient you seem to have a very high expectation of expediency on a request of this magnitude.

- emails have been read by someone and classified in some manner. Not all 450,000 emails are classified in such a way that they could not be made public right away.
- Depending on the level of classification, they may or may not need to be edited for release to the public.

- I would expect it to take time, but not 75 years. That equates to 156,000 hours (2080 hrs/yr * 75).

 

[Sherman123]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

What a load of bull****. If Clinton has something to hide, we can't trust her (with nuke codes).
Period.

Too bad you're going to have to.

 

[Abbazorkzog]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

Too bad you're going to have to.

....Wat? No I don't. Lol.

 

[shrubnose]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

74 and a half years after the election is over with Clinton's opponents will have all the info that they need.

:lol:

 

[Casca XV]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

BS....writing takes a lot longer than reading. It sure did not take 75 years to create them. This is another Democrat party attempt to cover up their corruption.

 

[Casca XV]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

74 and a half years after the election is over with Clinton's opponents will have all the info that they need.

:lol:

She already admitted to destroying Govt. documents which is a federal felony.

 

[Arjay81]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

Do you have any clue how long it takes to not only read 450,000 pages of email, but get a decision on what if anything with in them might need to be redacted? For conservatives who seem to think government is incredibly slow and inefficient you seem to have a very high expectation of expediency on a request of this magnitude.

Do you have any idea how fast this request would be complied with were it for a Republican secretary of state? This is a totally illegal stone walling of a legal request that would just embarrass Obama and his subjects.

 

[Arjay81]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

What's humorous is that it actually has been. What minor transparency problems the Obama administration has had pales in comparison to the bull**** that Bush and Cheney pulled.

Until asked an actual question and being expected to provide a truthful answer. Then transparency goes out the window.

 

[shrubnose]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

She already admitted to destroying Govt. documents which is a federal felony.

Come back and tell us all about it after she moves into the White House.

:lol:




"Better days are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch,running out of time,GOP.

 

[Arjay81]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

No, they'd still have to read them and redact them regardless of what server they were on.

And getting instructions on what to redact from this administration takes a loooong time.

 

[Arjay81]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

At an average of 23 documents per day that is how long it would take. May not seem like a lot, but keep in mind how many different agencies have to go over each document and approve them. Also realize that they would be working on other things as well. There are countless freedom of information requests that are made every day. Do we have to put them all on hold for just this one? Maybe if you allowed them to hire some staff specifically for this project it could get done sooner, but then republicans would have to let government create jobs via regulation and of course that's a no-no.

Yet it was expected that any law, ie healthcare or treaty with Iran, get read and approved in no time at all. That, by itself is thousands of known pages and there was no problem. I guess it is only a problem if it negatively impacts a democrat.

 

[Arjay81]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

That does not change the time spent on a freedom of information request. The Republican National Committee could file that request regardless of where the emails were stored. There is no particular reason the RNC needs them as a part of the investigation either. They're just trying to dig up dirt above and beyond what the internal investigation is already looking for. Which coincidentally is a good reason to have a private email server for personal correspondence with non-classified information. It would actually save some time on a freedom of information request by not requiring staff to sift through trivial nonsense.

Which of course, in your opinion, forgives the 2000+ classified emails on this private server. The "trivial nonsense" is your attempt at a defense on this.

 

[eohrnberger]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

What's humorous is that it actually has been. What minor transparency problems the Obama administration has had pales in comparison to the bull**** that Bush and Cheney pulled.

The Least Transparent Administration - WSJ

The difference being that it was only Obama who made the promise of 'The most transparent administration in history', and then promptly forgot about it.
But no matter. Can add this to the already long, long list of empty promises, i.e. lies, that this president and his administration told.
Seems that lying is the only way they do anything.

 

[eohrnberger]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

This is nonsense.

So basically, anybody in Washington can do anything they want as long as they destroy the emails. We won't piece it together for a century?

Are you serious?

This is a corrupt bitch who's busted, and the state department is playing political games of hide the sausage.

Hillary, the State Department, Obama, and the administration have been playing 'hide the sausage' on this for years now.

That's part of the government corruption and government accountability problem.

It's the DC Zit that begs to be popped, and a large part of the electorate are demanding that it be popped. High time, I'd say.

 

[eohrnberger]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

Do you have any idea how fast this request would be complied with were it for a Republican secretary of state? This is a totally illegal stone walling of a legal request that would just embarrass Obama and his subjects.

Except they have to shame, as you can see by the posts here.

 

[Fearandloathing]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

Do you have any clue how long it takes to not only read 450,000 pages of email, but get a decision on what if anything with in them might need to be redacted? For conservatives who seem to think government is incredibly slow and inefficient you seem to have a very high expectation of expediency on a request of this magnitude.

False argument.

Each of them has a classification in the header. Most will be non issue. So only the headers have to be read with the exception of items directly related to the case

 

[Skeptic Bob]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

Having been through a number of Freedom of Information Act requests in my former career I can assure you it isn't 450,000 UNIQUE pages. They are inflating that number by including all the duplicated emails in each and every reply and forward. And those "pages" aren't entire pages. A very large number of them will be just a couple sentences and a signature line. If you have ever printed out email chains you know what I am talking about.

A small IG appointed team with some IT experts could GREATLY narrow that page count down with just a couple weeks of filtering.

 

[eohrnberger]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

False argument.

Each of them has a classification in the header. Most will be non issue. So only the headers have to be read with the exception of items directly related to the case

Read headers?

Aww hell. These things are on a computer and can be filtered based on that header. I'll bet that you could throw out 90% of them as not of any concern or needing any further review, and focus on the 10% that are or might be.

This 75 years bull**** is exactly that, and is only the continued illegal stone walling as perpetrated by Hillary, her aides, the State Department, Obama, and his administration.

 

[apdst]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

The difference being that it was only Obama who made the promise of 'The most transparent administration in history', and then promptly forgot about it.
But no matter. Can add this to the already long, long list of empty promises, i.e. lies, that this president and his administration told.
Seems that lying is the only way they do anything.

The Left holds Obama to a lower standard because he's black.

 

[shrubnose]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

Bush and Cheney had nothing to with Hillary's or the administration's problems. They've been gone for nearly 8 years, and while in office had little to do with the Clinton's or Obama.

This is a current ongoing problem.

A hundred years from now we'll look back on this and laugh.

By that time they'll have been done with those emails for 25 years.

:lol:

 

[eohrnberger]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

The Left holds Obama to a lower standard because he's black.

Now wait. Isn't that inherently racist?

Or is it only racist when it presents a disadvantage or greater obligation. If presents an advantage or lesser of an obligation, then it's not racist?

 

[Fearandloathing]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

Read headers?

Aww hell. These things are on a computer and can be filtered based on that header. I'll bet that you could throw out 90% of them as not of any concern or needing any further review, and focus on the 10% that are or might be.

This 75 years bull**** is exactly that, and is only the continued illegal stone walling as perpetrated by Hillary, her aides, the State Department, Obama, and his administration.

What did you expect?

She did the same thing in the Whitewater investigation only 'discovering' crucial documents after the final filing date.

It seems Americans get to chose between two candidates both with serious legal problems. The Republicans have ceded the high ground by embracing Trump where it seems he has a huge problem.

 

[apdst]

Re: Request for Hillary Clinton emails would take 75 years to complete, State Departm

Now wait. Isn't that inherently racist?

Or is it only racist when it presents a disadvantage or greater obligation. If presents an advantage or lesser of an obligation, then it's not racist?

Of course it's racist. You'll never hear the liberals admit it, though.