BADASS: State Department Refusing to Answer Perfectly-Fair Questions About How It Handled FOIA Requests Concerning Hillary's <font size="0">secret, hidden</font> Email Accounts

BADASS: State Department Refusing to Answer Perfectly-Fair Questions About How It Handled FOIA Requests Concerning Hillary's secret, hidden Email Accounts

Because when people FOIA'd to get information about Hillary, the State Department never disclosed the existence of these accounts, even when specifically asked about the mere addresses of any private accounts Hillary might use for official correspondence.

In other words: They just lied.

And now they won't answer questions about their previoujs lying.

As The Daily Caller, The New York Times and others noted on Tuesday, Clinton’s use of a personal email account --— HDR22@clintonemail.com -- thwarted the FOIA request process.

Because you can't FOIA that which the government will not admit even exists.

Since 2009, federal regulations have required agencies to preserve emails generated on outside systems. By failing to make those documents available to the Department, Clinton avoided having her emails made subject to numerous FOIA requests.
TheDC wanted to know how the State Department handled those FOIA requests once they were submitted by media outlets and special interest groups.
Did the FOIA office search State Department email systems for Clinton’s records and then, because she had not made them available to the agency, determine that no records existed? Or did the FOIA office contact Clinton or her aides only to be told that no such records existed?
Figuring that out would shed light on who was responsible for the agency being in violation of federal regulations. It would also help determine whether Clinton went out of her way to avoid transparency, an allegation which was bolstered by Wednesday's revelation that the former first lady operated a private email server out of her Chappaqua, N.Y. home.
TheDC asked the State Department these specific questions and others. The agency answered some questions, but ignored the ones pertaining to the FOIA handling process.

I can't quote this all because I have to give the Daily Caller the benefit of its reportage.

But you should read the article. I am leaving several delicious things out of the excerpt, including... Oh just read it. It'll take you three seconds.

Posted by: Ace at 05:45 PM

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1 At this point, what does it matter?

Posted by: NC Ref at March 05, 2015 05:46 PM (xuPqu)

2 The Clintons have never cared about protecting the Country's Secrets...they have their hands full protecting their own secrets.

Posted by: wheatie at March 05, 2015 05:47 PM (7cGIw)

3 Breaking the law is the new black.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 05, 2015 05:48 PM (/i3Yt)

4
Harf! Harf! Harf!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2015 05:49 PM (CMkNk)

5 Un-American Badass is Hillary Clinton's best record to date.

Posted by: Garrett at March 05, 2015 05:49 PM (3f4ek)

6
So is the Ayatollah dying like Genco or Hyman Roth?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2015 05:49 PM (CMkNk)

7 Meh. The general dumbass who will vote for Clinton is more interested in how tiny Kim Kardashian's waist than about Clinton shenanigans.

Posted by: IC at March 05, 2015 05:50 PM (a0IVu)

8 You have to admit, destroying the lives of Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers and other Bill Clinton fcuk toys was just a teensy bit badass.

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 05, 2015 05:50 PM (MBVn2)

9

Barry tells us to get off our high horse, from within his Trojan Horse.

Meanwhile, Hillary is riding around in her Trojan Filly, while awaiting a Trojan Goat.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 05, 2015 05:50 PM (IXrOn)

10 Clicking on links goes against my nature. I like the internet to come to me.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 05, 2015 05:50 PM (IN7k+)

11 But you should read the article. I am leaving several delicious things out of the excerpt, including... Oh just read it. It'll take you three seconds.

Posted by: Ace at 05:45 PM

But it's at Daily Caller.
All those ads there that barrage my computer makes it act funny afterward.

Posted by: wheatie at March 05, 2015 05:51 PM (7cGIw)

12 9 Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 05, 2015 05:50 PM (IXrOn)

And Bill is wearing a Trojan.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2015 05:51 PM (CMkNk)

13 After the MSM chortled with glee as they encouraged their readers to help read through Palin's emails, I hope the irony of that sticks with them. Eff them all.

Posted by: jmel at March 05, 2015 05:51 PM (9ads2)

14 President R. V. Prolapse... can't you just hear it?

"President Prolapse, President Prolapse, what's your thoughts on Russia nuking Assturdistan?"

Posted by: Hector Cloggedup at March 05, 2015 05:52 PM (jOumW)

15 You know we are just going to wait for some sucker to go and read it and them spill the beans in the comments, right?

Posted by: Garrett at March 05, 2015 05:52 PM (3f4ek)

16
Killing Vince Foster and making it look like suicide was kinda badass, no?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2015 05:52 PM (CMkNk)

17 HDR22?

I want to see. Bill's email

WJC69@clintonemail.com

Posted by: wooga at March 05, 2015 05:52 PM (bFJiu)

18 Nothing will happen, I'm afraid.

The only enemy anyone in the government sees is citizens who want to reduce its size.

They are united against us. The idea of graft or incompetence from within isn't a threat to them.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 05, 2015 05:52 PM (MMC8r)

19 And Bill is wearing a Trojan.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2015 05:51 PM (CMkNk)

Heh.

A blue one that casts shadows.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 05, 2015 05:52 PM (IXrOn)

20 Off sock

Posted by: OG CELTIC-AMERICAN at March 05, 2015 05:52 PM (jOumW)

21 The knee bone's connected to the thigh bone, hard drive's connected to the motherboard. Oh, never mind...

Posted by: Ready for Hillary!!11!! at March 05, 2015 05:53 PM (Dwehj)

22 Shocked, SHOCKED...(yawn). Shocked I tell you. This will be reported in a one-n-done way. It's purely prophylactic. "That email thingie? Yeah, we covered that, like, weeks ago."

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at March 05, 2015 05:53 PM (5buP8)

23 A little State Dept. mood music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d19mKg8B6vc

Posted by: The Unlyin' Hat at March 05, 2015 05:53 PM (0Ew3K)

24 Local news story.

Posted by: The MFM at March 05, 2015 05:53 PM (Dwehj)

25 Because when people FOIA'd to get information about Hillary, the State Department never disclosed the existence of these accounts, even when specifically asked about the mere addresses of any private accounts Hillary might use for official correspondence

We wondered why we never got emails from her.

Posted by: State Department employees at March 05, 2015 05:53 PM (oKE6c)

26 After the MSM chortled with glee as they encouraged their readers to help read through Palin's emails, I hope the irony of that sticks with them.

Don't worry, it won't. The 'self aware' meter pointer is still resting on 0.

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 05, 2015 05:53 PM (MBVn2)

27 "Huma, get the Secret Service boy, I just stepped on my rectum again."

Posted by: President Prolapse at March 05, 2015 05:54 PM (jOumW)

28
13 Posted by: jmel at March 05, 2015 05:51 PM (9ads2)

Whatever one thinks about Sarah Palin, what she and her family endured for years and still endure is something that no decent person should ever have to go through for even an hour.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2015 05:54 PM (CMkNk)

29 ...and I didn't even know there was a live condom meme going down as I typed the word "prophylactic."

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at March 05, 2015 05:55 PM (5buP8)

30 Lying about getting shot at is also... a teensy bit badass.

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 05, 2015 05:55 PM (MBVn2)

31 After the MSM chortled with glee as they encouraged
their readers to help read through Palin's emails, I hope the irony of
that sticks with them. Eff them all.

Posted by: jmel at March 05, 2015 05:51 PM

Yeah, about that, do you think they're done yet, because I haven't heard about any of the dirt they surely found.

Posted by: huerfano at March 05, 2015 05:56 PM (bAGA/)

32 "Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 05, 2015 05:56 PM (TtXjG)

33 I have a secret Clinton server in my pants.

Posted by: Sandy Burglar at March 05, 2015 05:56 PM (iD3/d)

34 MUMR was willowed.

Posted by: HugoStiglitz at March 05, 2015 05:57 PM (Moh0M)

35 Shame about Vince finding my password file...

Posted by: President Prolapse at March 05, 2015 05:57 PM (jOumW)

36 "We wondered why we never got emails from her."

Rush pointed out, clearly, today that had to be emailing other government officials with this account and they had to know it was private, not SoS addy, etc. yet never a peep.

Hmmmm.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 05, 2015 05:57 PM (LA7Cm)

37 Of course they lied. They are part of the Pharaoh's admin.

But he can do anything he wants, felony on top of felony because there is no Congress.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 05, 2015 05:57 PM (wlDny)

38
You have to admit, letting Bin Laden get away 5 times was kind of badass, no?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2015 05:58 PM (CMkNk)

39 Remember back... to the good olden days.... when Hillary just happened to find that box of Rose law firm records in her office. Heh... completely plausible! The ivy was sitting on the box and I just never noticed it!

Or the 100's of FBI files on republicans they just happened to find... heh heh.. Same shit... Liars gonna lie, Clinton's gonna obstruct..

Posted by: Yip at March 05, 2015 05:58 PM (84SRe)

40 My Indian name is Destroyer of Walkers.

Posted by: Fauxcahantas at March 05, 2015 05:59 PM (MYCIw)

41 "because there is no Congress. "

Yeah, only a majority in both houses. Powerless. Not a damn thing they can do.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 05, 2015 05:59 PM (LA7Cm)

42 "Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 05, 2015 05:56 PM (TtXjG)/i]

To Bethlehem I slouch...

Posted by: The Beast at March 05, 2015 05:59 PM (0Ew3K)

43 36 "We wondered why we never got emails from her."

Rush pointed out, clearly, today that had to be emailing other government officials with this account and they had to know it was private, not SoS addy, etc. yet never a peep.

Hmmmm.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 05, 2015 05:57 PM (LA7Cm)

Yep. That's where I was going with this. In four years nobody noticed they were getting emails from "clintonemail.com" rather than sos.us.gov, or some such? Nobody?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 05, 2015 05:59 PM (oKE6c)

44 40 My Indian name is Destroyer of Walkers.
Posted by: Fauxcahantas at March 05, 2015 05:59 PM (MYCIw)

Pantsuit, yes. Scott, no.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2015 06:00 PM (CMkNk)

45 MUMR posts from my server.

Posted by: Cankles Clinton, feeding her internet troll at March 05, 2015 06:00 PM (iD3/d)

46 No...see...um...the thing is...Hillary was counting on the NSA to archive all her e-mails. I mean, the NSA must have all her e-mails, right?

Posted by: JB1000 at March 05, 2015 06:00 PM (WLJbV)

47
I LIE BY CHOICE!

--MUMRy Clinton

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2015 06:01 PM (CMkNk)

48 Yeah, only a majority in both houses. Powerless. Not a damn thing they can do.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 05, 2015 05:59 PM (LA7Cm)

Congress is just a social construct

Posted by: Trans-Senate Studies Major at March 05, 2015 06:01 PM (0Ew3K)

49 From: Bossy@clintonemail.com

To: Sgt. Schulz <schultz@knownothing.com>

Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 05, 2015 06:01 PM (oKE6c)

50 An excited Secretary Clinton looks on as an intern from tech support shows her how to mark incoming ambassadorial cables as spam

from picture posted at Mark Steyn's column on this " Basic Cable". link in sig

Posted by: Yip at March 05, 2015 06:01 PM (84SRe)

51
We spent the last weekend with our ad and marketing mavens. Election time next year. Gotta make sure everything is polished and tuned up before we take our message to the voters.

We tried out a bunch of new slogans. This was the best of the bunch.

"Deeply unserious leaders for a deeply unserious country."

Posted by: The Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party at March 05, 2015 06:02 PM (noWW6)

52 48 Congress is just a social construct
Posted by: Trans-Senate Studies Major at March 05, 2015 06:01 PM (0Ew3K)

Well played.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2015 06:02 PM (CMkNk)

53 So this means that the Associated Press is really ticked off about having their requests thwarted for the last five years. No doubt they will be filing that lawsuit.

Posted by: Jane at March 05, 2015 06:03 PM (rDidp)

54 Yep. That's where I was going with this. In four years nobody noticed they were getting emails from "clintonemail.com" rather than sos.us.gov, or some such? Nobody?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 05, 2015 05:59 PM (oKE6c)

Oh no.... we noticed...

Posted by: Iranian Revoutionary Guard, Hacker Division at March 05, 2015 06:03 PM (qh617)

55 You just can't stand strong felons.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 05, 2015 06:03 PM (MMC8r)

56 So, how many Executive employees conduct business on private email and private servers to avoid transparency and violate law? And do we have enough jails to house them?

And doesn't this Administration conduct business via Sneakernet... which is to say conduct meetings off government grounds and at local bars/restaurants in order to prevent documentation?

D.C. should be quarantined. Then nuked from orbit, just to be sure.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 05, 2015 06:03 PM (1CroS)

57 Was she selling information?

She was raking in donations from foreign governments.
What were they getting in return?

Posted by: wheatie at March 05, 2015 06:03 PM (7cGIw)

58 We tried out a bunch of new slogans. This was the best of the bunch.

"Deeply unserious leaders for a deeply unserious country."

Posted by: The Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party at March 05, 2015 06:02 PM (noWW6)
How about "Eleven out of ten watchers of 'The View' approve of Hillary. Oh, and of common core math too, obviously."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 05, 2015 06:04 PM (oKE6c)

59
yeah she's a heartless badass.oh and fuck you buddy

Posted by: socks the clinton cat at March 05, 2015 06:04 PM (lKyWE)

60 'Deeply unserious leaders for a deeply unserious country."

I like it!

Posted by: Fauxcahantas at March 05, 2015 06:04 PM (MYCIw)

61 Operator error, wrong tab. Auto forward to fresh thread
System error 2192

Tennyson - - Ulysses,

Is this not the story of Hillary Clinton?

To strive, to seek, to always fall short and never win the prize.

It little profits that an idle king, match'd with an aged wife,
That hoard and sleep and feed and cannot rest from travel.

Vext the dim sea: I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart.

It is never enough.

Posted by: Opie Smalls at March 05, 2015 06:05 PM (2SG0/)

62 I don't care who we elect in 2016, as long as it's not a Clinton or a Bush.

Posted by: Jack S. Phoggbound, Esq. Attorney for the butt chuggin' white boys at March 05, 2015 06:05 PM (1mtKP)

63 The DC website crashes Safari nearly every time I go there. But I got the idea. Wait until they ask her if she ever, even once, clicked the "delete" button on any emails she received or sent having anything to do with government business. Each time she clicked, its a felony. Each time.

Posted by: MTF, Bring On the Art. 5 Convention! at March 05, 2015 06:06 PM (FCsIb)

64 I need a new sysadmin, the previous one seems to have killed himself in the park...

Posted by: President Prolapse at March 05, 2015 06:06 PM (jOumW)

65
She was raking in donations from foreign governments.
What were they getting in return?

Evil laugh.

Excellent. Close the circle.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 05, 2015 06:06 PM (MMC8r)

66 I don't care who we elect in 2016, as long as it's not a Clinton or a Bush.

It wasn't any better in 2008 or 2012.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 05, 2015 06:07 PM (MMC8r)

67 62 I don't care who we elect in 2016, as long as it's not a Clinton or a Bush.

Posted by: Jack S. Phoggbound, Esq. Attorney for the butt chuggin' white boys at March 05, 2015 06:05 PM (1mtKP)

For God's sake, man, think! You left out the Kennedys! /shudder

Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 05, 2015 06:07 PM (oKE6c)

68 "Each time she clicked, its a felony. Each time."

Well over 4 years that could be........like a lot or something.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 05, 2015 06:08 PM (LA7Cm)

69 Yep. That's where I was going with this. In four years nobody noticed they were getting emails from "clintonemail.com" rather than sos.us.gov, or some such? Nobody?
Posted by: Jay Guevara

A conspiracy to lie tthe American people? Professionals in the State Dept. concealing such misconduct?

Shut the door! That's just crazy.

Ask that guy that was Ambassador to Libya, he was a friend of Hillary Clinton. Yeah, that guy.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....in the bleak midwinter at March 05, 2015 06:08 PM (RFeQD)

70 Meh. The Clintons are untouchable. Nothing will come of this. The MFM will make sure that things will either remain uncovered or murky as hell. It's the new normal. I wish my Banana Republic had real Banana Trees. I feel cheated.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 05, 2015 06:08 PM (fLKzW)

71 Eric Hot-e-ham is a real person I tell you! Real!

Posted by: President Prolapse at March 05, 2015 06:09 PM (jOumW)

72 This seems pretty clear:

All agency-administered email accounts are likely to contain Federal records. This includes email accounts with multiple users (such as public correspondence email addresses) or email accounts for an individual on multiple systems (such as classified and unclassified email accounts). In addition, agency officials may create Federal records if they conduct agency business on their personal email accounts. Email sent on personal email accounts pertaining to agency business and meeting the definition of Federal records must be filed in an agency recordkeeping system.

http://1.usa.gov/1GoGVOK

Posted by: MTF, Bring On the Art. 5 Convention! at March 05, 2015 06:10 PM (FCsIb)

73 Hillary! conspiring with her husband to suborn perjury? Now THAT's badass.

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 05, 2015 06:11 PM (MBVn2)

74 Well over 4 years that could be........like a lot or something.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill

No controlling legal authority.

Say that again and again until you understand it.

Posted by: Albert Gore, Jr. at March 05, 2015 06:11 PM (RFeQD)

75 I've obtained FOIA requests for Hillary's official State Department emails and I'll be unveiling them LIVE at 9pm eastern!

Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at March 05, 2015 06:11 PM (Cq0oW)

76 What were they getting in return? Hmmm, maybe Billy Jeff guided tours of Pedophile Isle for the "gentleman" ambassadors, and The Isle of Lezbos for the womyn.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at March 05, 2015 06:11 PM (5buP8)

77 New Hillary thread because Ace can't find the Update button or something...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 05, 2015 06:12 PM (TtXjG)

78 As I've said since the beginning, forget about other bureaucrats knowing about this off domain email address, what about D and R elected officials?

She never emailed her buddy McCain from her not .gov email? She never emailed any R's that were investigating benghazi? She never emailed any D's that were covering for her?

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 05, 2015 06:12 PM (AkOaV)

79 And hanging Webb Hubbell out to dry has got to be badass, too...

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 05, 2015 06:13 PM (MBVn2)

80 Ace is disappointed in his new Party? Oh, well, like a good Democrat, he'll find a way to excuse Hillary.

Posted by: Lincolmtf at March 05, 2015 06:13 PM (2cS/G)

81 Old age hath yet his honour and his toil;
Death closes all; but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be undone.

Burn it down, leave no stone unturned.
Salt the earth for spite, and poison the water.

From Hell's Gate I spit at thee.

Posted by: Opie Smalls at March 05, 2015 06:15 PM (2SG0/)

82 A secret email address you say? Tell me more...I'm dying to hear about it.

Posted by: Ambassador Stevens at March 05, 2015 06:16 PM (bX0+e)

83 Flaming Skull up

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 05, 2015 06:17 PM (wlDny)

84 So she violated State Department regulations, does anybody know what the penalty for violating these regulations is?

Posted by: big air at March 05, 2015 07:21 PM (vC4ux)

85 Eric Holder is doing his Janet Reno best, with utter contempt for his oaths, duties, and obligations (as she did, as demorats do) Demorats love to think they rule as unaccountable GODS.

Posted by: ron n. at March 05, 2015 07:39 PM (YVQn/)

86 State Department mendacity and cover-up of mendacity. In your face lame stream media mendacity and cover-up of mendacity.

All these people have college degrees and foreign policy experience.

One word.

RICO.

Posted by: Tortuga at March 06, 2015 05:55 AM (80yQt)

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