Posted on 01/22/2016 2:11:22 PM PST by jazusamo
The State Department on Friday sought to delay its final release of emails from Hillary Clinton's personal server, blaming a massive snowstorm hitting Washington as well as an internal "oversight."
In a court filing, the department asked a federal court to delay by a month the Jan. 29 deadline for it to release the last batch of roughly 55,000 pages of Clinton's emails believed to be work-related.
The emails, thousands of which have been released on a monthly basis since last year, have become a constant headache
for Clinton's front-runner Democratic presidential campaign. More than 1,300
of the emails from the former secretary of State's private email account and server have been classified -- some at a level higher than top secret.
Roughly 82 percent of Clinton's emails have been released, the State Department says.
However, last week the State Department realized that more than 7,200 pages of Clinton's emails had not yet been sent to other agencies, which are required to review them for potential redactions before they can be made public.
"State overlooked some necessary consultations at a time when the Clinton email team's efforts were focused on processing records that had already gone through interagency consultation in order to meet the monthly interim goals," the department said in Friday's court filing. "Thus, this oversight was not detected until the push to meet the final deadline."
The effort to send those pages to other agencies was "interrupted" by the massive snowstormexpected to blanket Washington this weekend, it added.
"[T]his storm will disrupt the Clinton email team's current plans to work a significant number of hours throughout the upcoming weekend and could affect the number of documents that can be produced on January 29, 2016," the Obama administration said.
Ahead of the storm, the federal government closed its doors early on Friday, and much of official Washington has shut down. The storm's closures could extend into next week, potentially delaying the department's work even further.
The State Department will still release some emails on Jan. 29, spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement -- but not the entire remaining tranche of emails.
"We will strive to produce as many documents as possible on that day," Toner said.
The department spokesman added that remaining undisclosed emails are "the most complex to process" because they contain "a large amount of material" that needs to be approved by other agencies.
However, he insisted that the delay was not due to ongoing debates about classification of Clinton's messages. The State Department and Clinton's presidential campaign have maintained that none of the messages that passed through the former diplomat's personal server were classified at the time they were sent, a position that the federal intelligence agency watchdog disputes.
The department asked the court to push the deadline for the full collection of documents back to Feb. 29.
A delay in the release of the emails would push the final batch even later into the presidential primary season, after the first four state nominating contests.
The State Department has complained for months that a focus on Clinton's email setup while secretary has caused a spike in the number of Freedom of Information Act requests and lawsuits, which have drained its resources.
In addition to the 55,000 pages of work-related emails, Clinton deleted a similar number of allegedly personal emails from her personal server. That server is now in the hands of the FBI, which is investigating it for potential mishandling of classified information.
Oh no, really? sheesh
Just want a slight day till after the general election.
The AL GORE CLIMATE change excuse.
It’s Friday, there’s a snow storm.... perfect.
The Judge needs to slap them. They are look anything in his face and ignoring him. Judges usually don’t like that. But, its the Clintons.
Publishing emails has nothing to do with the weather. Just another “dodge” by the Hitlary clan, use any excuse you can to avoid the inevitable.
Absolutely...Slap them and slap them hard.
Laughing in his face. I hate auto correct.
“The Judge needs to slap them.”
You didn’t finish your sentence. .....slap them in jail!
The Clinton excuse machine at work.
The oldest one...
It’s part of a right wing conspiracy.
1. Its just another thing to throw against the wall to see if it sticks.
2. I dont recall.
3. At this point, what does it matter?
4. We didnt do anything wrong
5. We didnt know we were doing anything wrong
6. You cant prove we knew we were doing anything wrong.
7. Theres no evidence of any wrongdoing.
8. Thats old news. It’s all been gone over in the last few weeks/ months/ years.
9. I would never do that.
10. Everybody does that.
11. Ah hah hah hahahahaha
Interesting. A past event was somehow affected by something that is in the future. I'll have to remember this on April 15th from now on:
'Sorry, I couldn't fill out my return because my dog is gonna eat it next week.'
What a bunch of jackasses.
Busy flushing them down the toilet.
Hillary today said the above top secret email (congress can’t scan see them) was a New York Times news story someone forwarded.
She can’t speak for more than two minutes without lying.
BUMP!
“And the dog ate them!”
“Thus, this oversight was not detected until the push to meet the final deadline.”
Bull! They’re professionals, not my township clerk’s secretary!
I could cut them slack, if they had not dragged this out for months, and just last month they blamed Christmas. Many people need to be held accountable for this.
This just out today - I don’t think it was ever a
“New York Times story someone forwarded”.
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EXCLUSIVE: Clinton email exposed intel from human spying
By Catherine Herridge, Pamela K. Browne Published January 22, 2016 FoxNews.com
At least one of the emails on Hillary Clinton’s private server contained extremely sensitive information identified by an intelligence agency as “HCS-O,†which is the code used for reporting on human intelligence sources in ongoing operations, according to two sources not authorized to speak on the record.
Both sources are familiar with the intelligence community inspector general’s January 14 letter to Congress, advising the Oversight committees that intelligence beyond Top Secret — known as Special Access Program (SAP) — was identified in the Clinton emails, as well the supporting documents from the affected agencies that owned the information and have final say on classification.
According to a December 2013 policy document released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence: “The HSC-0 compartment (Operations) is used to protect exceptionally fragile and unique IC (intelligence community) clandestine HUMINT operations and methods that are not intended for dissemination outside of the originating agency.â€
It is not publicly known whether the information contained in the Clinton emails also revealed who the human source was, their nationality or affiliation.
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