AP rebukes State Department for lengthy response to Clinton docs

[Tacoma]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2015/11/ap-rebukes-state-department-for-lengthy-response-to-clinton-docs-215939

The Associated Press rebuked the State Department on Monday, accusing the agency of dragging their feet on producing documents related to Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary.

The State Department, asked to produce Clinton's public schedule for the duration of her time in office, has said it will need a month to process 400 pages of the material—a pace that, according to AP calculations, would require four years for the department to complete the task.

"AP (and the citizens of this nation) should not have to wait another four years, long after the 2016 election in which Secretary Clinton is a presidential candidate, to receive a full set of her schedules from her tenure as Secretary of State. AP respectfully suggests that a reasonable production schedule would require State to produce all of Secretary Clinton's 'mini schedules' and 'final schedules' no later than the Spring of 2016," the AP wrote in court-filed response to the State Department.

The most transparent administration ever conducting business as usual... We would be in far better hands if the Gambino family were running the nation...

[kit saginaw]

The State Department wants us to think their employees are so unbelievably busy doing fathomlessly complicated tasks like coordinating the entire World's affairs, that they don't have time to do what busy State Department employees are actually supposed to be doing.

That's childlike, lazy-ass lib logic. 

I'll save the AP the trouble...  clinkton and her staff were morally corrupt incompetents.  The emails will show it.  You can't redact chaos.

   

[mhughes]

I wonder what kind of time constraints are in the FOIA law.  Too busy to go read it right now.

[kit saginaw]

I wonder what kind of time constraints are in the FOIA law.  Too busy to go read it right now.

There's a law that allows the Government several days to respond to each of the 400 pages.  -'Respond' being a legalese term. 

Of course, the 'response' is crafted in a series of silly meetings that a lot of us have to sit-through in our workplaces.  You can't do your work on-time if you have to attend an unrealistic sequence of frivolous meetings about doing your work.

Then the Government informs the FOIA-seekers about options for judicial review, and its determinations.  -Adding several more days.

[daidalos]

Actually what that looks like to me, is the State Department is trying to avoid releasing anything that might be damaging to Hitlary Klinton politically. Until either the election is over and she's beaten. Or she's already in office as POTUS when we find out.

[daidalos]

Actually what that looks like to me, is the State Department is trying to avoid releasing anything that might be damaging to Hitlary Klinton politically. Until either the election is over and she's beaten. Or she's already in office as POTUS when we find out.

Given that this State Department, under this President.

Was/is/were/are dragging their feet in the same fashion with answering the Congress and the subpoena's it has issued, as it attempts to look into the Benghazi affair.  What else but "covering something politically damaging up" could possibly motivate a governmental agency such as the State Department to act that way? Particularly even when under Congressional Subpoena. Which even the POTUS himself, must answer to if given one.