The State Department said it would take 75 years for the release of emails from top aides to Hillary Clinton from during her time as secretary of State. Lawyers said it would take that long to compile the 450,000 pages of records from former Clinton aides Cheryl Mills, Jacob Sullivan and Patrick Kennedy, according to a court filing from last week, which was first reported by CNN.
"Given the Department's current [Freedom of Information Act] workload and the complexity of these documents, it can process about 500 pages a month, meaning it would take approximately 16-and-2/3 years to complete the review of the Mills documents, 33-and-1/3 years to finish the review of the Sullivan documents, and 25 years to wrap up the review of the Kennedy documents or 75 years in total," the State Department said in the filing.
In March, the Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a pair of lawsuits requesting the release of emails and records from Clinton and her top aides during and after her time at the State Department.
The Obama administration has failed to comply with records requests in a timely manner as required by law, Chairman Reince Priebus said in a March statement, noting that the RNC had previously requested the documents from State last October and December.......
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This govt does so much lying! Are you telling me they couldn't get 'em all SCANNED within a week? making 'em all instantly searchable and indexable, not to mention sortable by any parameters? WHAT ARE WE* PAYING THEM $3.3 trillion a year in "income taxes"** for??? They can do any task no matter how involved except the ones they're SUPPOSED to. Show of hands, please -- how may think there are any 450k pages of it anyway? That would be 426 PER WEEKDAY while she was Secretary of Hate, and I don't think she ever did any actual w-o-r-k, do you???
- *The amerikan sheeple, not including myself
- **not their real name