2016 Postmortem

csziggy

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7. "Hillary's hubris" - more like the State Department's blocking

Wed Dec 28, 2016, 03:30 PM

Dec 2016

From the VICE article:

Contreras ordered State to propose a deadline for releasing all of Clinton’s emails. And at a hearing on May 19, the State Department did: Jan. 15, 2016, two weeks before the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.

In a 13-page declaration, John Hackett, the State Department’s FOIA chief, said the “intensive,” time-consuming task of reviewing Clinton’s emails would not be completed until the end of the year. And for the first time, the government disclosed that Clinton’s emails had been turned over to the State Department in “paper form in twelve bankers’ boxes” in December 2014, about a month after I filed my FOIA request.

That seems to indicate that Clinton turned over her emails to the State Department in a timely fashion in response to the FOIA. The State Department was the entity fighting the FOIA all the way along, not Hillary Clinton or the Clinton campaign.

Hillary Clinton was no longer the Secretary of State and had no control over what the State Department did at that point. She was NOT attempting to"circumvent FOIA requests"

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