State Department to delay release of Clinton Foundation emails until late 2018: They're not even bothering to be subtle about their corruption.

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SOURCE: AMERICAN THINKER

URL: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/07/state_department_to_delay_release_of_clinton_foundation_emails_until_late_2018.html

by: Rick Moran


It's hard to fathom the depth of corruption in Hillary Clinton's State Department, largely because the documentation that would expose it is lost; deleted; or, as in the case of emails sent from Hillary Clinton aides to the Clinton Foundation and Taneo Corporation – a corporate partner – delayed.

Someone might want to ask Mrs. Clinton how it is that her top aides were sending 700 emails a month to the Foundation.  In a standard work week, that's about 35 emails a day.  Didn't these people have work to do?

The Justice Department has filed a brief on behalf of the State Department asking for more time to gather together the 34,000 emails sent from Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Fuchs, and Ambassador at Large Melanne Verveer to the Foundation over the course of Clinton's tenure.  How much time?  DoJ picked a nice, round, number: 27 months.

You might recall that both Abedin and Mills were double-dipping – working for the Foundation or Taneo Corporation while drawing their full salaries from the State Department.  Were they conducting private business on the taxpayers' time?

From the Daily Caller:

The State Department originally estimated that 6,000 emails and other documents were exchanged by the aides with the Clinton Foundation. But a series of “errors” the department told the court about Wednesday evening now mean the total has grown to “34,116 potentially responsive documents.”

During Clinton’s four years as America’s chief foreign diplomat, her aides communicated with officials at the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings where Bill Clinton was formerly both a client and paid consultant, on the average of  700 times each month, according to the Justice Department filing.

David N. Bossie, president of Citizens United, which requested the documents under the Freedom of Information Act, called the delay “totally unacceptable” and charged that “the State Department is using taxpayer dollars to protect their candidate, Hillary Clinton.”

“The American people have a right to see these emails before the election,” Bossie told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras, a President Obama-appointed judge, had previously ordered the State Department to release the requested documents by July 21. But Department of Justice lawyers informed Contreras Wednesday night that “the [State] department discovered errors in the manner in which the searches had been conducted in order to capture documents potentially responsive to plaintiff’s request.” The motion was filed by Justice Department attorney Joseph Borson on behalf of the State Department.

Borson also provided new details about how few resources the State Department has devoted to answering 106 separate Freedom of Information Act requests that are pending before it, many of them ordered by federal judges. Only 71 “part-time” retired foreign service officers are being used to review all of the pending FOIA requests.

Not a bug – a feature.  They draw out the FOIA requests for years and then complain that the process is taking too long. 

[EC]

Pity you don't have any judges left of the caliber of Lord Denning.

During the Denning Inquiry (into the Profumo affair) he was also being stonewalled. The Home Office requested a delay (for about the 15th time) and his response was "You will have the requested documents in my chambers by Friday, or you and your principals will be in gaol Friday. It is your choice, gentlemen. Court adjourned."

[DB]

Can you imagine if this were a Republican administration doing this and the wall to wall MSM coverage of it? The NYT, Washington Post and others would be getting their next Pulitzer prize over it... Democrats, what news? We've become full blown banana republic...

[Fishrrman]

Go to the Russians and get them sooner....  ;)

[WAC]

Hillary's emails and home  server are merely the tip of the iceberg........ The emails tipped off the FBI about something much deeper going on between the Clintons, her aides and the Clinton Foundation..... They ALL worked for the Clinton Foundation at the same time they were working at the State Department.
 Very interesting  that two days after thes meeting between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch, the Justice Dept. files a motion for the State Department seeking to delay the release of Clinton Foundation emails by 27 months. ..Note!...just in time for the statue of limitations to expire.

I still say that the Clinton Foundation escapades is what the FBI wants to hit the Clintons with, and have evidence to do so...the problem is that involves leaders of other nation states which opens a whole nother can of worms.  I believe the FBI's 3 hour meeting with Hillary was to do a deal.....or reveal what they have and let her squirm.

[Fishrrman]

WAC wrote:
"I believe the FBI's 3 hour meeting with Hillary was to do a deal.....or reveal what they have and let her squirm."

The "airport meeting" between Lynch and Bill wasn't Bill's idea.
He was invited there.
And once there, he was offered the position of being "the messenger".
But.... what was "the message"?

As I posted here months ago, I believe it goes something like this:

Bill was told to tell her:
OK, ma'am, here's the deal. The government has the goods on you, and it has 'em good. You're going to have a tough time winning in a court of law.
But... drop your candidacy, recluse yourself to a very private life, and this scandal will disappear into the hidden vaults of history.
Your choice, ma'am.

The meeting with the FBI agents was pro forma.
They already know all they're going to know about her, him, the emails, and the business dealings.

Let's see what the Clintons do next.

[flowers]

WAC wrote:
"I believe the FBI's 3 hour meeting with Hillary was to do a deal.....or reveal what they have and let her squirm."

The "airport meeting" between Lynch and Bill wasn't Bill's idea.
He was invited there.
And once there, he was offered the position of being "the messenger".
But.... what was "the message"?

As I posted here months ago, I believe it goes something like this:

Bill was told to tell her:
OK, ma'am, here's the deal. The government has the goods on you, and it has 'em good. You're going to have a tough time winning in a court of law.
But... drop your candidacy, recluse yourself to a very private life, and this scandal will disappear into the hidden vaults of history.
Your choice, ma'am.

The meeting with the FBI agents was pro forma.
They already know all they're going to know about her, him, the emails, and the business dealings.

Let's see what the Clintons do next.

Interesting would be almost worth it to see them go away.

[WAC]

WAC wrote:
"I believe the FBI's 3 hour meeting with Hillary was to do a deal.....or reveal what they have and let her squirm."

The "airport meeting" between Lynch and Bill wasn't Bill's idea.
He was invited there.
And once there, he was offered the position of being "the messenger".
But.... what was "the message"?

As I posted here months ago, I believe it goes something like this:

Bill was told to tell her:
OK, ma'am, here's the deal. The government has the goods on you, and it has 'em good. You're going to have a tough time winning in a court of law.
But... drop your candidacy, recluse yourself to a very private life, and this scandal will disappear into the hidden vaults of history.
Your choice, ma'am.

The meeting with the FBI agents was pro forma.
They already know all they're going to know about her, him, the emails, and the business dealings.

Let's see what the Clintons do next.

Well I don't know about that....I would prefer Hillary be taken down with the Clinton Foundation money laundering machine....as this would also hit on ay politicians just as corrupt as they are and as much on the international stage. 
No atter how this plays out.....Bills meeting with Lynch could easily derail the investigation...and delay is what the Clintons seek so that she can be seated as President......then it would be very difficult to take wither cases against her because in office they can use the leverage of the Presidency for 4- 8 years easily.

[WAC]

Interesting would be almost worth it to see them go away.

They will never go away.....they are the heart of all that's wrong with Washington. In or out of office.

[DB]

I see this as a test of just how corrupt our federal government has become. We all know Hillary broke multiple laws, laws that have put numerous lesser people in prison. If the FBI, DOJ, etc. can sweep it under the Obama rug and it stands we are a nation no longer under the rule of law. When there's in your face public lawlessness at the highest levels it permeates everything else and spreads like cancer. At this point there's no evidence it isn't malignant.

[flowers]

They will never go away.....they are the heart of all that's wrong with Washington. In or out of office.

Very sadly you are correct.