By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--March 16, 2015
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"This review did not involve opening and reading each email. Instead, Clinton’s lawyers created a list of names and keywords related to her work and searched for those. Slightly more than half the total cache -- 31,830 emails -- did not contain any of the search terms, according to Clinton’s staff, so they were deemed to be 'private, personal records.'”Even left-leaning news outlets were taken aback, since this is a notoriously shaky way to determine what is and isn't worth keeping. The assumption that every single work email would necessarily contain one of the keywords is deeply flawed, and it also relies on the thoroughness of the keyword list itself. As a result, the explanation - which was supposed to diffuse the situation - actually had the opposite effect. Since they don't want to see Hillary subjected to scrutiny at the hands of yet another "vast right wing conspiracy," her people have issued a "clarification." It basically boils down to "Oh, those emails? Oh yeah. We totally read each and every one of those. We thought you knew that!" From Fox:
Hillary Clinton’s camp late Sunday issued a significant clarification about the steps they say were taken to review thousands of personal emails before they were deleted, claiming her team individually read “every email” before discarding those deemed private. Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill made the clarification in a written statement to Fox News. This comes after the former secretary of state’s office revealed last week that while more than 30,000 “work-related” emails were turned over to the State Department, nearly 32,000 were deemed “private” and deleted. This admission raised questions over how her team decided to get rid of those messages. Merrill on Sunday clarified an earlier fact sheet that described some of those methods but did not say every email was read. “We simply took for granted that reading every single email came across as the most important, fundamental and exhaustive step that was performed. The fact sheet should have been clearer in stating that every email was read,” Merrill said.See? We all just misunderstood. So, to sum things up, last week they said 32,000 emails were subjected to a keyword search, weren't read, and were deleted. This week, they've changed their minds. All 32,000 were read before deletion. You can rest easy. The Clintons changing their story? Get right out of town!
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