Judicial Watch is reporting that it has been informed by the FBI that the Bureau has located 30 pages of documents relating to the meeting between then attorney general Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton on the tarmac in a private plane in Arizona last year. The FBI also told Judicial Watch that it needs six weeks to process the documents before turning them over.
The back story here makes the FBI conduct even more outrageous. Judicial Watch made a request under the Freedom of Information Act for all documents related to the Lynch/Clinton meeting. Last fall, the FBI told Judicial Watch that no such documents existed. Then, in another lawsuit, Judicial Watch saw documents relating to the Lynch/Clinton meeting identified by the FBI. That meant that the FBI response to the original Freedom of Information request had been wrong (although we can't say if it was intentionally false.) The FBI reopened the original request and is now responding to Judicial Watch.
How is it possible that the FBI needs six weeks to produce these documents? It obviously has the 30 pages together in on place because it has an exact count of the number of pages. Most likely even a very slow reader could read the entire 30 pages in a half hour. What is the FBI going to do for the next six weeks that prevents it from turning over the file? Nothing comes to mind.
It is conceivable that the FBI is still checking about some of the documents. Even so, with the tiny number of documents involved, it seems more reasonable that the FBI get six days to complete its review rather than the six weeks requested.
The back story here makes the FBI conduct even more outrageous. Judicial Watch made a request under the Freedom of Information Act for all documents related to the Lynch/Clinton meeting. Last fall, the FBI told Judicial Watch that no such documents existed. Then, in another lawsuit, Judicial Watch saw documents relating to the Lynch/Clinton meeting identified by the FBI. That meant that the FBI response to the original Freedom of Information request had been wrong (although we can't say if it was intentionally false.) The FBI reopened the original request and is now responding to Judicial Watch.
How is it possible that the FBI needs six weeks to produce these documents? It obviously has the 30 pages together in on place because it has an exact count of the number of pages. Most likely even a very slow reader could read the entire 30 pages in a half hour. What is the FBI going to do for the next six weeks that prevents it from turning over the file? Nothing comes to mind.
It is conceivable that the FBI is still checking about some of the documents. Even so, with the tiny number of documents involved, it seems more reasonable that the FBI get six days to complete its review rather than the six weeks requested.
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