The Clintons perfected this stall technique. First, they refuse to produce documents in a timely manner. Then they claim that they should not produce the documents because there is no interest in them. Then a few documents get lost and fond much later. Finally, the Clintons claim that "this was already investigated and there was nothing to it."
An example is the request for documents by Judicial Watch.
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72,000 New Clinton Docs!
October 27, 2017
President Trump’s efforts to
drain the Washington swamp are being seriously hindered by Deep State,
particularly in the State and Justice Departments.
As an example, the State Department just revealed in a federal court
hearing that it has yet to process 40,000 of 72,000 pages of Hillary
Clinton records that the FBI recovered last year. The revelation came in
our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton’s emails that were sent or received during her
tenure from February 2009 to January 31, 2013 (Judicial Watch, Inc. v.
U.S. Department of State (No.
1:15-cv-00687)). The case is before Judge James E. Boasberg.
The hearing, which took place last week, 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, only a small
number of which have been released, but 40,000 pages remain to be
processed.
We 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.
But right after the hearing, 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 fewer than 500 pages of records a month
to Judicial Watch, emails 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! (We originally filed
the lawsuit in May 2015.)
Clinton attempted to delete 33,000 emails from her non-government server. The FBI investigation
recovered or found a number of these missing emails, many of which were
government documents. We know that some of these recovered emails are in
the pile of documents on which the State Department now sits.
Secretary Tillerson should be asked why his State Department is still sitting on this mother lode of Clinton emails. It
is disheartening that an administration elected to “drain the swamp” is
stalling the release of documents in order to protect Hillary Clinton and
the Obama administration.
In a related lawsuit, the State Department admitted 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. The State Department expects to complete its
review and production of the FBI records by December 31, 2017.
This is all a slow-motion cover-up, and it’s being conducted in a department
allegedly reporting to President Trump. The President needs to clean
house and get the American people these Clinton documents ASAP!
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