Ready For Hillary's Emails

What's the rush?

State Department Proposes January Release of Hillary Clinton Emails

At least they don't seem to mean January 2017. The Times includes this bit of hillarity:

...Mrs. Clinton promised the emails would be released quickly, but the delay proposed by the State Department would not necessarily provide a breather. The Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary would come just after the State Department’s target for releasing the emails.

Of course, if no serious alternatives have entered those races because they could not find any traction in 2015, even hideous revelations in the emails (the non-deleted emails, remember) won't boost the alternatives that don't exist.

And why so long?

The department is dividing the material into small batches, with plans to review about 1,000 emails a week. In addition to the State Department’s Freedom of Information Act office, subject-matter experts within the department will review the emails before their release, as will other government agencies when relevant, including the Defense Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council.

“Currently, this project is staffed full time by a project manager and two case analysts, as well as nine FOIA reviewers who devote the entirety of their time at the State Department to this effort, plus other analysts and information technology specialists who provide collateral assistance to this review in addition to their regular duties,” the filing stated. “The team managing this project has met daily since early April to implement and oversee this large undertaking.”

My psychic sources have alerted me that as part of its ongoing effort to hire the alternatively enabled, the State Department is having the emails read by three blind people, so a lot of translation into braille is necessary. And all team meetings are chaired by a deaf person, so there is a lot of sign language involved, some of which goes over the head of the blind people. Fortunately, many of the meeting participants speak English.

Comments

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Google's Latin translator says the below, rather than delenda est is the proper phrase;
Hillary erit sumpsisset.

[Sue]

Hello dear leader.

[Thomas Collins]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GLASATER, BORN ON THE DAY THE GREAT ONES ARE BORN!

[Porchlight]

Happy birthday glasater!

[Porchlight]

Which great ones? I believe it's Pete Townshend's birthday today, too. The big 70 IIRC.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Which great ones?--

Certain three piece multi-taskers.

[Sue]

Happy birthday TC. And I've already said happy birthday to glasater but I'll say it again! Happy birthday glasater.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Currently, this project is staffed full time by a project manager and two case analysts, as well as nine FOIA reviewers who devote the entirety of their time at the State Department to this effort, plus other analysts and information technology specialists who provide collateral assistance to this review

I wonder how many of them have donated to the Clinton Foundation?

Or perhaps how many of them have in recent days begun receiving grants from the Clinton Foundation?

Or a job offer?

[Some Guy]

Back on the thread where we are allowed to post such things, there is an update and answer to a question some have been asking about the suspensions of two employees.

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2015/05/friday-night-late-night-open-thread/comments/page/3/#comments

[Threadkiller]

Is that update speculation from an "insider?"

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Back on the thread where we are allowed to post such things...--

Can we get a ruling from Ref Jeff on whether linking to verboten subjects constitutes a violation of the rules and how many days suspension any violators may be receiving?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

If Ref Jeff has insufficient information to make a determination I will conduct a thoroughly thorough investigation for a mere $45 mil.

[Miss Marple]

The State Department proposes releasing the emails in January.

Miss Marple proposes terminating all State Department employees on the same date.

It is frightening to me that there are people in the government with the title "FOIA reviewer" and there must be a LOT of them, because nine are assigned to Hillary's emails.

[Threadkiller]

This is the Government we wanted shut down. The spineless GOPe allowed the narrative to be memorials and parks taking the brunt.

If it takes this long to read her BS, how do they convince anyone that 3000 page House Bills get read in any less time.

[NKonChrome]

Hilligula's emails?Turn them over to JOM and other certain blog sites, and we'll take a look... and be finished well before January.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Ig, I don't consider it a violation - if the attempt is honestly to try and steer the discussion back there, rather than kick it up here.

But while I am convinced that that is the case in this situation, and that no true violation has occurred, I'm still considering a 4 game suspension and loss of next year's first round draft pick because even the appearance of a violation warrants sending a message about how seriously the rules are taken.

I'll issue my final report in the coming days. I appreciate Ig's offer to help conduct the investigation, but I have decided to pay myself the $45M.

[jimmyk]

I think Sharyl Attkisson had a piece on the results of these FOIA reviewers--lots of e-mails with essentially everything blacked out except for "Hi Syd," and "Best regards, Hillary."

[Barbara]

Google's Latin translator says the below, rather than delenda est is the proper phrase; Hillary erit sumpsisset.

She will be taken, Iggy? You mean like to jail?

I like delenda est; it sounds more ominous.

[Miss Marple]

Jeff, for a mere 5 million I will do all of your correspondence, leaving you time for thinking and deciding, which is, of course, worth every bit of 40 million.

I bet you would even find time, on that fairly small amount, to host Good Morning America.

[jimmyk]

My mistake, Attkisson's piece was about healthcare.gov e-mail redaction:

https://sharylattkisson.com/the-not-so-public-business-of-healthcare-gov/

But I'm sure we'll see much the same with Hillary's.

[Old Lurker]

Awww where did this thread come from? I just posted these a couple of threads back:

Anybody besides me think that a headline like this on Rollcall "GOP Wants Review of Internet Governance Handover" means squat once McTurtle and Orangeman get involved?

Fool me once, etc.

Anybody besides me think that yesterday's confirmation of the gun running from Benghazi to Syria revealed the pretty much certain GOPe involvement in the event and therefore the cover-up?

Fool me twice...

And for my hat trick (Fox) "THE HILLARY CLINTON EMAIL MYSTERY takes yet another confusing turn, with Republican accusations that the former secretary of state 'misled' the public by using multiple 'secret' addresses — fueling further calls for Clinton to hand over her private server to third-party examination."

Barn. Door. Horse long gone. Etc.

[CR]

We'll Miss Marple, according to the section of the State Department's website on FOIA requests fees:

Search and Review Rates [for FOIA REQUESTS]
The categories of personnel that may conduct searches and reviews and the estimated hourly costs based on the average current salary rates (including benefits) for those categories are:

Administrative/clerical – $21/hour
Professional – $41/hour
Executive -- $76/hour

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Google translator says erit sumpsisset means Hill will destroy herself.
Any complaints should be directed to Sergei Brin.

[Barbara]

I like NKonChrome recommendation. Put all of the emails, including those involving "wedding plans", bereavement emails, and pilates routines on the Internet. Just like the Dan Rather letters/pseudo evidence, we'll sort 'em out in no time at all.

[Porchlight]

jimmyk,

Thank you for spelling Sharyl Attkisson's name correctly. It's a rarity to see.

(With a surname like that, you'd think her parents would at least have given the poor girl a conventionally-spelled first name.)

[Barbara]

Got it, Iggy. If that's what it means, I'm all for it - sooner rather than later.

[Threadkiller]

Hank Johnson (D, Guam's flip-side) has spent the first minute of his five minutes trying to say something like "astigmatic" to describe Sheriff Clarks written testimony.

http://www.c-span.org/video/?326139-1/hearing-community-policing&live

He now suggests that cops have a PTSD problem.

[jimmyk]

Your welcome, porch--I screw up the substance but get the little details right. :)

[Porchlight]

That's all that counts these days, jimmyk. :)

[Janet]

If it takes this long to read her BS, how do they convince anyone that 3000 page House Bills get read in any less time.

That is a great point, TK.

[Appalled]

Just remember -- Hank Johnson is the guy who displaced Cynthia McKinney. So, it really can be worse.

[Miss Marple]

CR,

So basically we taxpayers are paying high prices to get information released that rightfully should have been in the public domain to begin with.

How much of those fees goes into the union coffers.

It's a racket, I tells ya!

[narciso]

Shirley they cant be serious.

[Porchlight]

OT,

If you have $1.5 million dollars handy, you can bid right this minute on the Frank Gehry guest house that used to live on my parents' property in Minnesota.

My parents never owned it - the property was divided prior to their purchase of the Philip Johnson main house - but they had access to it for several years (it was empty), and my kids used to enjoy playing hide and seek in it.

I'm not a huge Gehry fan, but I do love this little place. It is said to be a landmark modern design because it is the first time Gehry used mixed materials (which was new then but is now something everyone does).

http://www.wright20.com/

Here it is on the property (it's since been moved). BTW for the oenophiles, it has a cute little built-in wine cellar. ;)

[Porchlight]

Oops, sorry, you still have time. Auction begins at noon Central, not Eastern. ;)

[CR]

No, no, no...we taxpayers are paying high prices to NOT have information released.

[Extraneus]

Remember, these are the emails that Cheryl Mills decided not to delete. Meaning: they'll make Hillary look good.

[Porchlight]

I despise this woman. Iggy or others - please tell me again why she won't be elected.

[James D.]

I'd like to hear that again, too, Porch. I could use some encouragement.

[James D.]

So there's a neighborhood emai list that Janet and I are both on, and it's gone crazy this morning. There are usually 2-3 posts a day, total, on various topics (stuff for sale, someone needs a babysitter, requests for recommendation for a contractor, etc).

Today, though, the topic is that a gun shop is supposedly looking to move into a currently empty storefront. And as you can imagine considering the political makeup of the neighborhood, opinion is mostly ranging from horrified to extremely horrified.

There's been talk of petitions to the County Board, boycotts of the shopping center in which the store is located, etc. There have been suggestions for what sort of business ought to be put in there.

But not one person has suggested actually, you know, coming up with a business plan, getting some funding and trying to rent the space to put a neighborhood-appropriate business in there.

(well, there was one sane person who suggested that if the neighborhood got together and came up with enough money to pay the landlord the rent he's asking for in order to keep the storefront empty and gun-free, the landlord would almost certainly take the deal. There were no replies to that suggestion, however...)

[Beasts of England]

Ero, eris, erit, erimus, eritis, erunt.

Sadly for JOM, it's the future tense and not the much-heralded pluperfect.

[Beasts of England]

'...their purchase of the Philip Johnson main house...'

:::ahem!:::

[Old Lurker]

"neighborhood got together and came up with enough money to pay the landlord the rent he's asking for in order to keep the storefront empty and gun-free, the landlord would almost certainly take the deal."

Actually, no. Landlords hate vacant stores even when they are collecting rent. Occupied stores help each other out by attracting customers and also reducing crime. Long term vacancies give the appearance of "problem centers" and that holds down future rents, increases insurance costs, and accordingly harms Economic Values.

[Old Lurker]

What Beasts? Your Mother does not have a Phillip Johnson House with a Frank Gehry guest house? Maybe your brother got that property?

Good for Porch's old man!

[lyle]

BTW for the oenophiles, it has a cute little built-in wine cellar. ;)

I'm not into a "cute little built-in," Porch. ;)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

What were the mixed materials; old corrugated tin off a barn and walmart's cheapest tarpaulins?
I hope when they moved it they put it back together differently because it looks like some kid kicked his legos.

[Miss Marple]

Old Lurker is exactly right. And once there are too many vacancies, it causes a snowballing effect with the stores which are left, which then look for other places to go, leaving even more vacancies, etc.

I saw it happen to a place that should be in a very good location, across from the very large Simon-owned mall near me. The largest building in the strip was a fitness center. There was also a Tuesday morning, a small liquor store, and a bakery.

The fitness center moved out and the building was leased by a church. The liquor store then relocated across the street, and Tuesday Morning went to a strip mall closer to the suburban subdivisions where the bulk of their clientele is. The church moved and the space was bought by a private restaurant called the "Patriot Diner" which mainly served breakfasts. I drove by there on Sunday evening and I think the restaurant is closed as well. Parking lot looks terrible and it should be an advantageous location, but it now looks abandoned.

[glasater]

Thanks so much for the kind BD wishes and to show my thanks I wanted to share one of my favorite pics with you:

This is NOT a Hillary queen bee - it is a worker bee! :-)

To celebrate my bd I'm going to play duplicate bridge. Ha!

[James D.]

OL @ 12:55

True. But at least paying him to keep it empty is a recognition that the property belongs to the landlord, who has the right to rent his space to whomever he likes, and who needs income from that rent to pay his bills.

That's better than "I don't like the busienss that wants to go in there! I want business X or Y or Z there instead! Wah!"

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

She won't win because she is a talentless hack of a politician, unlike Billyjeff who is a very talented hack of a politician, and because she is prone to self destruction and the most abysmally transparent, self-injurious lies and because she may inspire admiration in some deluded segment of the population but inspires intense loathing in at least as large a segment and because the nation is quite weary of 8 years of left wing gimcrackery and contemptuous condescension from a stuck-up-sticky-beak of a know-it-all pain in the ass.

[Beasts of England]

They did buy some blueprints from Southern Living one time, OL, so they've got that going for them! ;)

And I concur: good for them!

[James D.]

Or, more accurately, "I don't like the business that wants to go in there! I want somebody to make the landlord put something else in there instead!"

[Threadkiller]

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2015/05/friday-night-late-night-open-thread/comments/page/125/

[Old Lurker]

Tru dat James. I have two centers in Arlington and both the neighborhood groups think they own my centers and have the right to veto any zoning compliant tenants I want and have no problem telling us that from time to time.

All this while your county charges us about $5 PSF per year in real estate taxes... (!)

Oh. I think that gun store approached us six months back and we said thanks but no thanks.

[lyle]

http://pagesix.com/2015/05/18/chelsea-sends-clinton-foundation-staff-running/

What did CH so colorfully call her? "Crotch spawn"? Gawd, I loath these people. Were the Clintons prophesied in Revelations?

[jimmyk on iPad]

Presumably they could put together enough money to convince the landlord to rent to someone else,as opposed to leaving it vacant. Just offer to pay the rent until he finds a tenant they deem suitable.

Strangely, in my neighborhood on the UWS there are valuable retail spaces that have been vacant for years. It seems that the landlords are willing to wait a long time to find the 'right' tenant, which seems mean one that will pay the hugely jacked up rents that forced out the previous tenants. In some cases they may be hoping for a larger tenant to combine the properties, as some of these vacancies are contiguous and take up all or most of a block.

[Old Lurker]

James, I wish I had a dollar for every neighbor who told me to "put a Starbucks in there".

Like that's up to the Landlord? Who knew!

[Beasts of England]

By the way, I finished my tzatziki a little while ago and it's chilling in the ice box. Getting ready to shave some strips off of the leftover lamb and enjoy a gyro.

And thanks, Steph - the tzatziki tastes wonderful!!

[Old Lurker]

Jimmy, sometimes those long vacant stores are tied up in a BK of the previous tenant or otherwise under the control of same.

But rest assured that every Landlord will make the decision he thinks will create the highest value for his property, long term. I have one vacancy now that I could rent every day but I will leave it empty until a great tenant comes along who will pay a very high rent and not threaten but will help my other tenants, or else I will wait until the neighboring lease expires next year so I can combine the two stores into one larger store worth more PSF. It is all, always, about the long term economic value.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Oh. I think that gun store approached us six months back and we said thanks but no thanks.--

Hmmm...

[Old Lurker]

Oh. Speaking of the UWS, properties ripe for redevelopment are always worth more empty than partially occupied. It is a lot harder to get rid of a tenant than many appreciate. Hard, long, and Expensive.

[Porchlight]

I'm not into a "cute little built-in," Porch. ;)

Don't worry - it's for your guests. :)

[Old Lurker]

We would make an exception for you, Iggy, if you want to move East.

[lyle]

Good thinking, Porch! You should be selling real estate!

[Porchlight]

A hearty thank you for your 1:09, Iggy!

[lyle]

In case you didn't hit that 1:14 linkie:

Chelsea Clinton is so unpleasant to colleagues, she’s causing high turnover at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, sources say.

Several top staffers have left the foundation since Chelsea came onBoard as vice chairman in 2011.

“A lot of people left because she was there. A lot of people left because she didn’t want them there,” an insider told me. “She is very difficult."

[Old Lurker]

BTW, a gun store in that vacant store I have would be ironic since the shooter who killed the American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell used our roof for his perch.

[jimmyk]

It is all, always, about the long term economic value.

I don't doubt that, OL, but the observed behavior can still be a bit mystifying. The particular block I'm thinking of has sat mostly empty for 4 or 5 years. These are first floors of residential buildings on an avenue, including some pricey coops. It's possible the coops are more willing to tolerate the loss of revenues and/or pickier about the tenants than a typical retail landlord. For example, many coops will turn down restaurants because they don't want the rats or other vermin.

[Porchlight]

I wish I were, lyle! We're in one of the hottest markets in the country and my lazy-butt neighbor who used to be in a band has now hung his real estate shingle and hired some fellow bandmates and they are all busy selling the houses of other musician friends (who are being priced out by property tax increases) for big bucks. Including the house of my BIL and SIL. Annoying.

But I have to hand it to him, it's a pretty good business model.

[Old Lurker]

"rats or other vermin."

Still talking about tenants, right?

[Jack is Lightnings!]

Little known fact: Frank Gehry's real name is Frank Goldberg.

Sent that link to Mrs. JiB, Porchlight, since she is a big Gehry fan. All you NoVa denizens, when you drive the beltway on the outer ring as you pass the exit to Dulles, you see a large high rise office building on the right, that is Philip Johnson's contribution to Tyson's Corner.

[lyle]

JamesD just got a plug from the Blogfather! Congrats!

READER BOOK PLUG: From James DiBenedetto, Fever Dream.

[Old Lurker]

My buddy owns that building, JiB. It is called the "Shopping Bag Building".

[Janet]

Yes James D. @ 12:44. I'm not on your neighborhood email list but I think my neighborhood vomited the alarm over to you guys.

One irony is that the pawn shop on the corner of Lee & Kirkwood has sold guns for decades & nobody knew or cared.

Here were my 2 comments on the 'Hair on fire!...a gun shop is coming!' thread -

The pawn shop at the corner of Lee Hwy. & Kirkwood has been selling guns for decades.
Washington-Lee high school has a rifle teams that competes in marksmanship competitions. Yorktown too, I think.
Anyway...I don't oppose a gun shop opening there.

Janet S

and

Is the XXX Community Assn. going to take a political stance on gun ownership? Nobody will be forced to shop at the store. If individuals oppose gun ownership, then they are free to not buy the store's products. How will boycotting the hair salon, yoga studio, flower shop, hardware store, framing shop & restaurant help our neighborhood? What about the jobs that all those businesses provide?

Janet S

I'm ready to move...

[maryrosee]

Kraft says Patriots will not appeal
Classy move
Avoid the waste of time and money

[jimmyk]

Still talking about tenants, right?

That was a hanging curve ball for you, OL. :)

[maryrosee]

PLease don't punish me Mr Dobbs

[Old Lurker]

Thanks James.

[Old Lurker]

I meant Jimmy...

[Barbara]

from lyle @1:32pm
“A lot of people left because she was there. A lot of people left because she didn’t want them there,” an insider told me. “She is very difficult."

Sounds like a chip off the old witch - to borrow a phrase.

[James D.]

lyle @ 1:39 - cool, he posted it! I emailed him and hoped for the best...

[NKonChrome]

JimmyK/OL-- you are talking about my business, I am thrilled and my mind is racing. All good points you two made, and I would note in the case of long-term owners, declining interest rates have made holding out longer for Mr Right Tenant (or buyer of the property) more viable.

[Stephanie]

Happy birthday y'all!

Glad you like that recipe for the tzatziki, beasts. You've got me plotting a trip to George's in the next few days for some Greek food.

[NKonChrome]

Apologies in advance regarding this tiresome topic ,but actions speak louder than words. I guess Kraft sees Tommie Boy as a declining asset, so he's on his own: http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/12913741/robert-kraft-says-new-england-patriots-appeal-deflategate-punishment

[Janet]

Let me add that the thread was an emotional frenzy for a bit & then I posted that I didn't oppose the gun shop....THEN others posted that they didn't oppose it either.

I don't know...the left is so scary/insane that we've become afraid to speak up...but whenever I do, I find out there are more sensible people out there. People are braver if they know they are not alone.

[lyle]

Janet for City Council!

[Miss Marple]

Janet,

This is why I am adamant that the GOP candidates start pointing out things, like the fact that our loss of Iraq was due to democrat attacks on Bush and the military, demoralizing the entire country and undermining our cofidence.

I want them specifically quoting dems and attacking them if this subject is ever brought up on a talk show or in a debate.

I also would like them to explain in clear English why employment figures remain low, what is counted and not counted in those figures, etc.

I do not want ot hear any more "reach across the aisle" talk. The only reaching across the aisle I want to see is someone reaching over and grabbing a dem by his collar and heaving him out the door.

[Beasts of England]

Dayum, that was a good gyro. I may have to join a carnival and take my game on the road! If only I knew how to make funnel cakes... :)

[lyle]

Miss Marple for Sergeant At Arms!

[NKonChrome]

Was JamesD just InstaLanched?

[jimmyk]

Amen, lyle, though I confess that when I saw this:

I want to see is someone reaching over and grabbing a dem by his...

I was hoping for something even more, um, colorful than "collar." But I know that Miss M is a refined lady.

[jimmyk]

Indeed he was, NK. Congrats, JamesD!

[lyle]

She is indeed, jimmyk. I'm surprised she didn't work in the word defenestrate to make her point.

[lyle]

Sounds like a chip off the old witch - to borrow a phrase.

And another example of refinement exhibited by the distaff side of JOM. You're way too kind, Barbara.

[NKonChrome]

Congrats JamesD!!

will you still speak to us when you are an international best selling author?

[James D.]

NK @ 2:25

I think the phrase we're looking for here is "I'd like to thank all the little people..."

In all seriousness, I really appreciate all the good wishes, support and helpw thiactual research questions. And JOM has been mentioned in the acknowledgements of the last three books.

[MarkO]

Happy Birthday, glasater.

Rock on.

[James D.]

I was hoping for something even more, um, colorful than "collar." But I know that Miss M is a refined lady.

I was hoping for something more along the lines of "...and strangle the life out of them" rather than heaving them out the door," personally.

[maryrosee]

As far as I am concerned we are in full campaign
No more Mr Nice Guy
Grab them by the throat and shake the truth out of them it may take awhile for Dems to recognize the truth

[sbw]

Grab them by the throat and shake the truth out of them

That presumes it is in there.