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-Lurid Crime Tales-
The State Department said there's less urgency to release Clinton's emails due to low interest
2017-07-24
[CIRCA] The State Department argued at a federal hearing Thursday that its ability to process the 100,000 Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook...
 emails ordered released under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has been hindered by a lack of manpower due to a "hiring freeze" and that the urgency to release the documents has been diminished by the public's lack of interest in the subject, according to the watchdog group that won the lawsuit for the document's release.
No, the public most certainly does not lack interest. Sorry. Oh, and did you check with the big boss before staking out this hill to die on?
But Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that sued the State Department in May 2015 for the thousands of emails and documents, isn't buying it.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton is accusing the State Department of slow-rolling the emails being sent from the FBI to the State Department, a large number of which Clinton "failed to disclose" to the government when she served as secretary of state, he said.
'Urgency?' What 'urgency?' Peter W. Smith, a GOP operative and Republican donor who had told the Wall Street Journal he'd tried to obtain Hillary Clinton's missing e-mails from Russian hackers, was found dead just days after the interview.
On July 15, the FBI allegedly turned over to the State Department a new disk of emails belonging to former Clinton aide Huma Abedin. The emails were apparently discovered on a laptop owned by Abedin's estranged husband, Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner
...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac six-term New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City...
. Weiner pleaded guilty in May to sending a number of text messages and sexually explicit pictures last year to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.

There apparently are 7,000 emails from Abedin on Weiner's laptop, said Fitton, who added that State Department and Justice Department lawyers are "claiming they have to appraise them, whether they are personal or government, and then sift through what can be shared publicly."
Posted by:Fred

#16  Is the WH still doing the citizen petition thing? I've got a feeling there would be an over-whelming response in the affirmative for expedited handling of Hildabeest's emails.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-07-24 19:27  

#15  They had said allow 6-8 weeks.

The Israeli consulate did it in less than two weeks, including settling some confusion about payment.

Not impressed yet.
Posted by: gorb   2017-07-24 17:47  

#14  Its not the interest or lack of interest that is important here. It is the principle!
Posted by: Daniel   2017-07-24 14:48  

#13  State Department's doing something right - got our renewal passports back in two weeks, including Post Office time back and forth, without any expedited service. They had said allow 6-8 weeks.
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-07-24 13:00  

#12  the urgency to release the documents has been diminished by the public's lack of interest in the subject

Culling opportunity . . . .
Posted by: gorb   2017-07-24 12:46  

#11  Clearly they aren't afraid of the 'dictatorship'.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-07-24 11:44  

#10  Perhaps the justice department can find new ways to motivate them. Throw a few in prison and they'll redouble their efforts.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-07-24 11:44  

#9  Tillerson may not be performing any better than Sessions.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-07-24 10:31  

#8  Who runs the payroll over there. Just delay their monthly checks one day for every week of delay. There's less urgency as the deplorables people have a low interest in your work as well.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-07-24 08:53  

#7  State Department spokeswoman Pooja Jhunjhunwala told Circa "‎the Department takes its records management responsibilities seriously.

Yeah sure. Like when the State Dept. and Obama knew and allowed Hillary to send and receive top secret and SAP documents from her home-based, unprotected personal commuter? Cough up the damned emails and quit trying to protect this sleazy, evil, crook.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-07-24 07:56  

#6  Deep-State department
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-07-24 07:26  

#5  The Tommy Vietor statute of limitations: "Dude, that was a long time ago..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-07-24 07:03  

#4  The beaucrats of the state department are just practicing 'suicide prevention' .
Seeing how investigating the Clintons tend to give one an overwhelming desire to kill oneself, or be robbed by robbers, or 'die of natural causes'...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-07-24 05:42  

#3   The state department does not make this call
Posted by: Newc   2017-07-24 03:32  

#2  Unfortunately, Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Joseph Rago could not be reached for comment.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-07-24 00:41  

#1  ...that the urgency to release the documents has been diminished by the public's lack of interest in the subject, according to the watchdog group that won the lawsuit for the document's release.
Fine. Is there a CyberSecurity Group in the Defense Department that can handle the job that State is too incompetent to handle? Don't you think that the DoD spooks would love to look through States's files. *Evil Grin*
Posted by: magpie   2017-07-24 00:34  

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