State Department Blocks Release Of Hillary Clinton-Era TPP Emails Until After The Election

International Business Times ^ | 6/6/2016 | David Sirota

[mac_truck]

Trade is a hot issue in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. But correspondence from Hillary Clinton and her top State Department aides about a controversial 12-nation trade deal will not be available for public review — at least not until after the election. The Obama administration abruptly blocked the release of Clinton’s State Department correspondence about the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), after first saying it expected to produce the emails this spring.

The decision came in response to International Business Times' open records request for correspondence between Clinton’s State Department office and the United States Trade Representative. The request, which was submitted in July 2015, specifically asked for all such correspondence that made reference to the TPP.

The State Department originally said it estimated the request would be completed by April 2016. Last week the agency said it had completed the search process for the correspondence but also said it was delaying the completion of the request until late November 2016 — weeks after the presidential election. The delay was issued in the same week the Obama administration filed a court motion to try to kill a lawsuit aimed at forcing the federal government to more quickly comply with open records requests for Clinton-era State Department documents.

[mac_truck]

Surprise, surprise, surprise...

[Gaffer]

EVERY job at State above GS-15 should be vacated after the election. Fire or transfer every effing one of them to Libya, Syria, Mogadishu or wherever. Once done, cut the comm lines.

[Mr. K]

From “the most transparent administration in history”

[Thank You Rush]

“”EVERY job at State above GS-15 should be vacated after the election. Fire or transfer every effing one of them to Libya, Syria, Mogadishu or wherever. Once done, cut the comm lines.””

Super suggestion. We would never miss them!

[USCG SimTech]

Putin has everything.

Putin will blackmail to prevent a release.

[Gen.Blather]

The text of the TPP is still secret. Several months ago a news outlet quoted an unnamed senator who said only about 25% of the text dealt with trade. Much of it deals with refugees and other issues.

I would like to see the text. I would also like to see an extensive unbiased report on how the US has done under the existing mega-trade deals like NAFTA and GATT. I’m willing to bet that none of the touted benefits have materialized. We have proven ourselves bad negotiators on the behalf of US citizens. (Of course, these trade agreements man not be about benefiting the actual citizens. Just a thought.)

[rolling_stone]

if the gop doesn’t scream they are totally worthless

[dandiegirl]

Trump needs to get out there everyday and talk about the massive amount of “stuff” the BO administration feels the need to hide. Most corrupt in history

[tumblindice]

Political deja vu: It’s fall, 2012 all over again.

[null and void]

And they blandly assert the delay is not politically motivated, no siree Bob!...

[combat_boots]

For example, the governing council, Pharma, intellectual property, and farm.

[null and void]

Gaffer ~ EVERY job at State above GS-15 should be vacated after the election. Fire or transfer every effing one of them to Libya, Syria, Mogadishu or wherever. Once done, cut the comm lines.

Thank You Rush ~ Super suggestion. We would never miss them!

Neither would the people in Libya, Syria, Mogadishu or wherever.

Can we include the former Sec State?

[jch10]

Were these requested by Congressional Committee? If so, subpoena them. Accept no excuses!

[rawcatslyentist]

We’ll just have to elect her to find out what’s in them.

[I want the USA back]

Obviously to protect her royal hipness, the queen of America.

[Liz]

TPP emails still under wraps?

Could it have something to do w/ the Clinton Foundation and the Obama Foundations (smirk)?

Obama considers TPP central to his presidential legacy and to his foreign policy and economic legacies.

Now, TPP is best understood against the backdrop
of Obama's post-presidential get-rich-quick foundation plans.

NOW ISN'T THIS INTERESTING? few, if any, of the RCEP and
TPP countries contributed to the buck-raking Clinton Foundation.

Looks like the Clintons and Obama divvied up the globe so that each have their own countries in order to collect big buck get-rich-quick foundation donations, honorarium, cosultancies, and int'l insider business deals.

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THE FACTS ARE THESE Obama's trade deal giveaway is a huge scam...best examined against the backdrop of Obama's two tax-exempt foundations (two-that we know of).

Obama's priming the pump for donations to his two Foundations.

All of Obama's thinly-veiled actions....

(1) promoting TPA and TPP,

(2) his immigration suck-ups

(3) his non-action WRT ISIS, IRAN....

.....are best understood against the backdrop of Obama's future get-rich-quick plans as an ex-president----more specifically, his two get-rich-quick Foundations (two foundations that we know of).

All these entities control billions of dollars---and Obama is lying-in-wait for his share: foreign donations, lucrative insider trade deals from untapped resources, energy deals, telecom deals, arms sales, consultancies, million dollar honorarium...and so on and so forth.

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WIKI REFERENCE: Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and the six states with which ASEAN has existing FTAs (Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand). RCEP negotiations were formally launched in November 2012.

[haircutter]

JUST GOES TO PROVE THAT B. HUSSEIN HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE..

BUT AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS SWORN IN..THE TRUTH SHALL BE KNOWN.

HILLARY AND HUSSEIN ARE BOTH UP TO THEIR EYE BALLS IN CRIME TOGETHER..AND NOW WE HEAR THE CLINTON’S ARE GOING TO SHOW HUSSEIN HOW TO SET UP A LAUNDRY MACHINE FOUNDATION...

ONLY IN AMERICA.

[McGruff]

“a controversial 12-nation trade deal will not be available for public review — at least not until after the election.”

Well then Trump should make it a campaign issue.

[apocalypto]

Maybe some hacker will release them.

[johniegrad]

Well then Trump should make it a campaign issue.

He has to. If he doesn't, it will say something about this election I don't want to hear.