The State Department is not going to be able to keep its cover up going for Hillary Clinton. A federal judge has ruled that State has to begin releasing the emails and continue to do so promptly on a rolling basis. It's a big loss for Mrs. Clinton.
Let's look at the background here.
1. Hillary violated federal rules by using her own personal email system rather than the government system while she was Secretary of State. During that time, she sent or received over 60,000 messages on the non-classified system.
2. A few months ago, press reports disclosed that Hillary still had every single one of those emails; none were in the possession of the State Department. Hillary says that she had the emails reviewed to see which pertained to her job as Secretary of State. She turned over paper copies of those emails to State, but she had the rest of them deleted and the server on which they were located destroyed. In sum, Hillary destroyed about half of her emails and only turned about 30,000 over to State.
3. In a big show, Hillary called on the State Department to release those 30,000 emails as quickly as possible. Of course, State has released none of them. Indeed, the State Department has been fighting all manner of lawsuits that would require the emails which still survive to be released to the public.
4. Just the other day, the State Department told the court in one of these proceedings that it would like to release the emails by some time in 2016. That would mean that it would be at least ten months for the State Department to review 30,000 emails. That comes to reviewing about 100 emails per day. There will no doubt be a task force in the State Department assigned to the task of reviewing the emails. If there are ten people involved, each one would have to review ten per day.
5. The judge saw the proposal by the State Department as the stall that it is. He ruled that the emails will have to be reviewed promptly and then released while the review of the others is ongoing.
What this means is that Hillary won't be able to hide behind her silence while knowing that the State Department has her back and will keep the cover up going. The judge is not going to accept just a few emails being dribbled out from the State Department. All of those emails that Hillary deigned to release to the State Department ought to be released over the next few months, or else the judge is going to issue sanctions.
We cannot get too excited about the release of these emails since they are the ones that Hillary decided she could distribute without problems. The rest we undoubtedly destroyed. Nevertheless, since it is possible to get email from others besides Hillary, a prompt release of this group from State will let investigators know if there are many that Hillary ought to have released but which she destroyed instead.
Let's look at the background here.
1. Hillary violated federal rules by using her own personal email system rather than the government system while she was Secretary of State. During that time, she sent or received over 60,000 messages on the non-classified system.
2. A few months ago, press reports disclosed that Hillary still had every single one of those emails; none were in the possession of the State Department. Hillary says that she had the emails reviewed to see which pertained to her job as Secretary of State. She turned over paper copies of those emails to State, but she had the rest of them deleted and the server on which they were located destroyed. In sum, Hillary destroyed about half of her emails and only turned about 30,000 over to State.
3. In a big show, Hillary called on the State Department to release those 30,000 emails as quickly as possible. Of course, State has released none of them. Indeed, the State Department has been fighting all manner of lawsuits that would require the emails which still survive to be released to the public.
4. Just the other day, the State Department told the court in one of these proceedings that it would like to release the emails by some time in 2016. That would mean that it would be at least ten months for the State Department to review 30,000 emails. That comes to reviewing about 100 emails per day. There will no doubt be a task force in the State Department assigned to the task of reviewing the emails. If there are ten people involved, each one would have to review ten per day.
5. The judge saw the proposal by the State Department as the stall that it is. He ruled that the emails will have to be reviewed promptly and then released while the review of the others is ongoing.
What this means is that Hillary won't be able to hide behind her silence while knowing that the State Department has her back and will keep the cover up going. The judge is not going to accept just a few emails being dribbled out from the State Department. All of those emails that Hillary deigned to release to the State Department ought to be released over the next few months, or else the judge is going to issue sanctions.
We cannot get too excited about the release of these emails since they are the ones that Hillary decided she could distribute without problems. The rest we undoubtedly destroyed. Nevertheless, since it is possible to get email from others besides Hillary, a prompt release of this group from State will let investigators know if there are many that Hillary ought to have released but which she destroyed instead.
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