Hillary Clinton faces criticism over new email releases

Clinton raised concerns about the spillage of closely held information in an email to her chief of staff, Cheryl Mills.

But the inspector general said even as the number of requests skyrocketed, the department cut funding for the division responsible for handling the requests – adding to what seemed to outsiders to be a veil of secrecy surrounding Mrs. Clinton’s activities at the department. Clinton has repeatedly tried to down play the significance of her private server use throughout the past year.

Foggy Bottom offered no explanation as to why the release was delayed from Thursday evening, as originally scheduled, to the dead of night on Friday.

Mike Pompeo, R-Kansas questions Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The nation’s intelligence community “won’t stand” for anyone getting away with deliberately mishandling classified material, and it’s preparing for its own revolt, if Lynch refuses to prosecute, he said.

As a result, the employees had “no way to independently locate Federal records from such accounts unless employees take steps to preserve official emails in Department recordkeeping systems”.

Further, the report indicates that providing faulty responses to requests made while Clinton was in office was in fact a long-standing problem.

Less serious – indeed, more humorous – she expressed dismay, again to Sullivan, that someone at the State Department was … wait for it … using a personal email account.

“OIG’s past and current work demonstrates that department leadership has not played a meaningful role in overseeing or reviewing the quality of FOIA responses”, the report states, adding that searches “do not consistently meet statutory and regulatory requirements for completeness and rarely meet requirements for timeliness”.

This isn’t the first time Clinton has had fax issues at the State Department.

“While the volume of State Freedom of Information Act requests has tripled since 2008, our resources to respond have not kept pace”, Kirby said.

While the previous releases contained unintentionally humorous material about printing all emails and struggles with the fax machine, this round of messages revealed how Clinton dealt with mistakes by her staff, policy suggestions and family members contacting her during the Benghazi crisis. The emails released Friday also were not fully processed, officials said.

Under the FOIA, citizens and foreigners can compel federal agencies to turn over copies of federal records and requires an agency to respond within 20 days, a deadline often missed in practice across the USA government. The topic is unclear because of redactions, but Clinton is plainly anxious to get her hands on a set of talking points being developed for her. That brought the total to more than 1,300 classified emails that were on Clinton’s private server.

The senator has asked the department’s inspector general to investigate whether emails between Clinton and Abedin to Teneo, or Teneo’s clients, had been “properly preserved”, given that Clinton used a private email server for official business during her tenure.