Friday, January 29, 2016

Delaying email release is not helpful to the Clinton campaign.

It provides illegitimate talking points. The Republicans like to say the White House plays footsie with the Clinton Campaign. That is not the case, but, the delay while legitimate is causing the Clinton Campaign problems no other campaign faces.

By Caleb Howe January 29, 2016 ...In a court filing late (click here) on Thursday evening, the department insisted that it “regrets” its inability to publish the final 7,000 pages on Friday, as a federal court ordered it to do last year.
Yet it defended the delay, blaming an internal oversight and the snowstorm that crippled Washington in the past week.
As part of the process of making the emails public, the State Department is required to have other agencies review Clinton’s emails to check if any information should be redacted or marked as classified.

According to the department, it simply “missed” sending roughly 7,000 pages of emails to other agencies and did not notice the oversight until earlier this month. Its efforts to correct the problem were further delayed by the snowstorm, which closed the federal government through Wednesday....

It would be nice to release the remaining email in one batch to end this hideous challenge to Hillary Clinton's expertise over and over and over again. Pay some folks some overtime to finish this mess.