By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--July 1, 2016
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In a court filing on Wednesday, administration lawyers said the State Department miscalculated the amount of material it would need to process the documents as part of a lawsuit with the conservative organization Citizens United. As a result, the government asked for a 27-month delay to release the emails, which were originally due out on July 21. “State deeply regrets these errors, and is working diligently to correct them as quickly as possible,” the lawyers said.
Among other errors, State officials said than an initial test looking at just 300 emails, which was used to calculate the amount of time necessary to process the emails, neglected to include keyword searches of the messages. Instead, they only searched the “To” and “From” lines of the messages, which failed to catch many emails. State Department officials also “inadvertently” labeled some email attachments as irrelevant to the open records request, without checking them to make sure.Yep, it's the same old song and dance that we've seen from the IRS and the State Department throughout Obama and Clinton's tenure. They lie, get caught, find themselves in hot water, then they delay releasing the truth until a politically convenient time of their choosing. It's getting to the point where it's difficult to remember how often this has happened.
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