From the Washington Friggin' Post, folks...
* * *
Two years before the public learned of Hillary Clinton’s
private server, the State Department gave an “inaccurate and incomplete”
response about her email use when it told an outside group that it had no
documents about Clinton’s email accounts beyond her government address,
according to a report from the State Department’s inspector general to be
released Thursday.
* NOT "THE STATE DEPARTMENT." ACTUAL PEOPLE!
ACTUAL STATE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES! INDIVIDUALS! HAS ANYONE BEEN CHARGED? EVEN
IF NO ACTUAL CRIMES WERE COMMITTED, THE LIAR(S) SHOULD BE AT THE VERY LEAST
FIRED!
The State Department made its statement...
* FOLKS; THIS IS AN EXTREMELY SERIOUS POINT I'M MAKING;
"DEPARTMENTS" DON'T MAKE STATEMENTS - OFFICIALS DO! WE NEED TO KNOW
EXACTLY WHO LIED! AND ANYONE WHO LIED... HE, SHE - OR "THEM" - SHOULD
BE PUNISHED!
* SO FAR... PRETTY HALF-ASSED "JOURNALISM..."
...in response to a 2012 records request from the
independent watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
(CREW). The response came even though Clinton’s chief of staff, who knew about
the secretary’s private account, was aware of the inquiry, the report says.
* FRIGGIN' AMAZING! NOTE THAT THE REPORTERS/EDITOR
"NEGLECTS" TO ACTUALLY PUT A NAME TO THE TITLE "CHIEF OF
STAFF."
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
In addition, the IG review found that agency staffers had
not searched Clinton’s office for emails.
The incident...
* "INCIDENT..."
(*SNORT*)
...was one of four cases that the report highlights as
examples of flawed responses...
* "FLAWED...?!?!" ARE THESE FRIGGIN' MOOKS
KIDDING...?!?!
...to public-records requests made while Clinton was in
office. The report found it was part of a long-standing problem stretching back
through previous administrations.
* "PROBLEM," HUH?
(*SNORT*)
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
* FOLKS... THEY THINK YOU'RE IDIOTS. PAY ATTENTION.
REACT! DON'T PROVE THEM RIGHT!
Clinton’s exclusive use of a private email system, which
became public in March 2015, led to an FBI investigation into whether her
unusual arrangement had compromised national secrets.
* "UNUSUAL ARRANGEMENT..."
(*RUEFUL CHUCKLE*)
* FOLKS... IN ALL SERIOUSNESS... WHAT I'M DOING HERE -
THAT'S WHAT THE EDITOR OF THIS ARTICLE SHOULD HAVE DONE WHEN IT WAS FIRST
SUBMITTED. FOLKS... THE WAY THE POST "PLAYS" THIS IS IDEOLOGICAL...
PARTISAN... AND DELIBERATELY SO.
After a firestorm of controversy, Clinton’s email
practice has become more muted as a campaign issue in recent months as she has
maintained her status as the Democratic presidential front-runner.
But the new report demonstrates the potential peril
Clinton still faces over the issue. In addition to the FBI probe, the State
Department inspector general, Steve Linick, indicated that his work is not
done. His office is preparing an additional report that could touch even more
directly on Clinton’s conduct — examining the use of personal email and its
effect on the department’s compliance with its duty to preserve records.
Pointing to the report’s broad conclusions about weak
records management, State Department officials concurred with the inspector
general’s findings and recommendations to boost staff, training, procedures and
oversight.
* NO DOUBT BECAUSE THE WORD HAS COME DOWN FROM WHITE
HOUSE AIDES THAT "CONCURRANCE" (AT THIS POINT) IS WHAT PRESIDENT
OBAMA WANTS...
(*PURSED LIPS*)
“The Department is committed to transparency, and the
issues addressed in this report have the full attention of Secretary Kerry and
the Department’s senior staff,” said spokesman John Kirby, referring to
Clinton’s successor, John F. Kerry. “We know we must continue to improve our
FOIA responsiveness and are taking additional steps to do so.”
* OBVIOUSLY "THE DEPARTMENT" ISN'T
"COMMITTED TO TRANSPARENCY;" THUS THE FINDINGS OF THE INVESTIGATION!
(*EXPLOSIVE SNORT*)
Brian Fallon, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, said,
“The Department had a pre-existing process in place to handle the tens of
thousands of requests it received annually, and that established process was
followed by the Secretary and her staff throughout her tenure.”
The report said that some seeking records from the
secretary’s office have had to wait more than 500 days to get replies. The
secretary’s office lacked any written procedures for handling records requests
and had no senior official in charge of overseeing the work, the report says.
* AND... UH... DOESN'T THAT REFLECT UPON THE INCOMPETENCE
OF THE HEAD GUY - KERRY - AND HIS PREDECESSOR... MADAM HILLARY HERSELF?
(*GUFFAW*)
Of 417 records requests made from the era of Madeleine K.
Albright to the present, 243 are still open and pending.
* CUTE. (THROWING MADELEINE ALBRIGHT IN...)
The inquiry found that the secretary’s office almost
never searched its own email in public-records requests before 2011. From 2011
to 2015, the secretary’s office inconsistently searched office emails as it saw
fit.
* WE'RE TALKING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. (RIGHT?)
The 2012 request by CREW was sparked by the discovery
that Lisa Jackson, then-administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,
had been using an alias email at work with the name “Richard Windsor,” largely
for personal communication.
(*SMIRK*)
CREW filed a public-records request with the State
Department that month for “records sufficient to show the number of email
accounts of or associated with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
Staff soon after alerted Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl
Mills, to CREW’s request. The inspector general found that Mills tasked a
member of her staff to follow up on the request. In May 2013 — four months
after Clinton left office — the State Department told CREW that “no records
responsive to your request were located.”
The IG report cited no evidence that Mills intervened in
the CREW inquiry or approved the final response — only that she knew about the
request and wanted a close aide to keep track of it.
* "NO EVIDENCE..."
* AND AL CAPONE WASN'T HEAD OF THE CHICAGO MOB; HE WAS
JUST ANOTHER TAX EVADER...
(*SMIRK*)
A lawyer for Mills did not respond to a request for
comment.
(*STILLING CHUCKLING*)
Melanie Sloan, the executive director of CREW at the
time, said Wednesday that the findings showed the agency should have known its
response was wrong.
“Cheryl Mills should have corrected the record,” Sloan
said. “She knew this wasn’t a complete and full answer.”
Fallon, noting that the report found no sign that Mills
reviewed the CREW records response, said Mills “did absolutely nothing wrong.”
* Er... TO REMIND YOU... THAT WOULD BE "BRIAN
FALLON, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN." (NO DOUBT THE AUTHORS OF THIS
ARTICLE WERE HOPING YOU'D FORGET EXACTLY WHO "FALLON" IS.)
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