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发帖数: 6571 | 1 Citing the agency's own errors in the handling of a request for emails of
four former aides to Hillary Clinton, the State Department is asking a
federal judge to extend the deadline to complete processing of the records
by more than two years.
Justice Department lawyers notified U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph
Contreras on Wednesday that State will be unable to meet the court-ordered
deadline of July 21 in the lawsuit the conservative group Citizens United
brought earlier this year seeking emails ex-State Department officials
Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, Melanne Verveer and Michael Fuchs exchanged with
individuals at the Clinton Foundation or a firm with ties to the Clintons,
Teneo Consulting.
The government lawyers asked Contreras to give State an additional 27 months
— until October 2018—to finish work on the request, processing documents
at a rate of about 500 pages a month.
State FOIA official Eric Stein said the agency thought in March that
searches turned up about 6,000 documents potentially responsive to the
request and that fewer than half of those were likely to be ultimately
responsive after duplicates were culled out.
However, in recent months, "the Department discovered errors in the manner
in which the searches had been conducted in order to capture documents
potentially responsive to Plaintiff’s requests," Stein told the judge in a
written declaration. One office he did not further identify searched only
the 'from' and 'to' fields of messages, meaning that forwarded messages
involving the individuals identified by Citizens United might not have been
captured.
In addition, Stein said State realized that "due to some errors recently
identified with the responsiveness review, some attachments to responsive e-
mails were inadvertently marked as non-responsive."
As a result, it now appears more than 14,000 pages are covered by Citizens
United's request and that number could grow as State wrestles with the
attachment issue, Stein said.
The litigation spiraling from the discovery over a year ago of Clinton's use
of a private email s during her four years of secretary of state seems to
be intensifying, as conservative groups, the Republican National Committee
and some in the media press to receive their requested records in advance of
the election.
Citizens United President David Bossie called the delay State requested this
week "outrageous" and explicitly accused the agency f trying to cover for
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
"This is totally unacceptable; the State Department is using taxpayer
dollars to protect their candidate Hillary Clinton." Bossie said. "The
American people have a right to see these emails before the election. If
transparency is truly important to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, they
will order the production of all of these records as ordered by the court by
July 21, 2016. The conflicts of interest that were made possible by the
activities of Hillary Clinton’s State Department in tandem with the Clinton
Foundation are of significant importance to the public and the law
enforcement community."
Asked about Bossie's claim that State is trying to aide Clinton by slow-
walking the records, a State spokeswoman had no direct comment.
However, State spokesman John Kirby blamed resource constraints and—as
POLITICO revealed Wednesday—a growing backlog of requests now numbering
over 29,000.
"We cannot comment as this matter is in ongoing litigation," Kirby said. "
Generally speaking, there has been a significant surge in FOIA requests to
the State Department in recent years and we are working diligently to
respond. The volume of FOIA requests received by the Department has tripled
since 2008."
"In fiscal year 2015 alone we received approximately 22,000 FOIA requests.
The requests are also frequently more complex and seek larger volumes of
documents, requiring significantly more time, resources, and interagency
coordination. While we have increased staffing for our FOIA office, our
available resources are still nonetheless constrained," Kirby said.
State says it has processed all work-related records in about 54,000 pages
of emails Clinton turned over to her former agency in 2014. However,
hundreds of requests for official-account and private-account emails from a
slew of Clinton aides are pending.
State said this week it is falling behind in routine processing of requests
as officials focus on the 106 FOIA lawsuits pending against the agency, most
of them involving emails or other records related to Clinton or her top
aides.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/06/clinton-emails-state-lawsuit-delay-request-224981#ixzz4D7V11gfY
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发帖数: 3242 | | A**d
发帖数: 13310 | 3 民主党的脸都是屁股变的
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【在 g********2 的大作中提到】
: Citing the agency's own errors in the handling of a request for emails of
: four former aides to Hillary Clinton, the State Department is asking a
: federal judge to extend the deadline to complete processing of the records
: by more than two years.
: Justice Department lawyers notified U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph
: Contreras on Wednesday that State will be unable to meet the court-ordered
: deadline of July 21 in the lawsuit the conservative group Citizens United
: brought earlier this year seeking emails ex-State Department officials
: Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, Melanne Verveer and Michael Fuchs exchanged with
: individuals at the Clinton Foundation or a firm with ties to the Clintons,
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发帖数: 6571 | 4 comeandgo信誓旦旦的说过，希拉里的电邮都是打印出来，装在麻袋里的，所以搜寻起
来很困难。
现在请comeandgo出来鉴定一下，看希拉里的电邮到底是不是装在麻袋里的。 | g********2
发帖数: 6571 | 5 如果国务院缺人手，我volenteer帮忙筛选电邮，不用开工资，我就不信一个月只能检
查500个电邮，又不是要你把电邮内容背诵下来，只是查查是不是跟那几个家伙的来往
信件，怎么会这么难查？ | S******8
发帖数: 24594 | | A**d
发帖数: 13310 | 7 所以说民主党一点逼脸都不要了
【在 g********2 的大作中提到】
: 如果国务院缺人手，我volenteer帮忙筛选电邮，不用开工资，我就不信一个月只能检
: 查500个电邮，又不是要你把电邮内容背诵下来，只是查查是不是跟那几个家伙的来往
: 信件，怎么会这么难查？
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