55k Actual Pages. You’re [Redacted] Me

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by Smitty

So, Her Majesty blows off common sense and any number of regulations to run her own email server while in office. Her Royal Bluff is called, and she’s all

“I want the public to see my email, ” she wrote in the Tweet. “I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.”

What is “soon” on the Regal Timepiece?

What does that mean, 55,000 “pages”? Or maybe you just read it, as the crack fact-check team over at PolitiFact did just last night, as 55,000 emails.

It turns out the reference is to literal physical pages. From Friday’s Times: “Finally, in December, dozens of boxes filled with 50,000 pages of printed emails from Mrs. Clinton’s personal account were delivered to the State Department.”

Why did Mrs. Clinton have her staff go through the trouble of printing out, boxing and shipping 50,000 or 55,000 pages instead of just sending a copy of the electronic record? One can only speculate, but there is an obvious advantage: Printed files are less informative and far harder to search than the electronic originals.

Given the Imperial non-command of security, one can only hope that a ream or twa is not mislaid in the process.

I mean, sure would be a cryin’, godforsaken shame if somebody got ahold of a box, scanned them with a drunken OCR program, and had Her Majesty in a furious catfight with President Jarrett over an Ambassador getting whacked, or something. No, that would never happen. Too farfetched. Who would believe anything less that exactly what the Regal Lips have uttered?

Also:

Gov. Palin: “I faced tough questions over email, so should Hillary Clinton”

Fat chance o’ that, guv.

44 comments

  1. There’s a term for this you’d be aware of sir.

    Vindictive (or malicious) compliance.

    It’s like she’s a Third Class doing exactly what the Chief said, and doing it in such a way that it’s calibrated to annoy you into quitting.

    Worst of all, the Media Clerisy is enabling it.

  4. This is exactly the type of ‘bipartisan’ behavior we can expect if we elect Hillary president.

    The main difference between the Obama and Hillary style of leadership will be that instead of being called a “RACIST!!” every 5 minutes, we’ll all be called “SEXIST!!!”

  6. Gowdy needs a SWAT team.
    I think James Carville nailed when he was talking to Andrea Mitchel, when it comes to the Clintons it’s always something.

  8. Clinton’s being petulant, but it’s not that big of a deal. It’s easy enough to scan all the pages and run the images through some good optical character recognition (OCR) software. That will capture about 85% (admitted guess-timate, but having worked in the software industry, I think it’s a fair approximation) of the text accurately & flag bad/questionable sections for review. HIll did something crappy, but it’s not even remotely a catastrophe. Just a PITA.

  10. Hillary is being a bitch. But 55,000 pages is about 10 boxes (the size a ream of paper comes in). What you do is scan the documents and with the right software you can search it anyway.

    Technology cuts both ways. She can run and delay but she cannot hide (unless the media helps her hide in plain sight). The GOP needs to grow a set and start subpoenaing the servers and emails and be ready to street fight (like the Democrats did on everything involving GWB).

  16. She is trying to hide the real dirt. #SeizeTheServers is absolutely right. If you get a list of her recipients then you start subpoenaing their files to cross reference. Some may be lost but you would be surprised how hard it is to hide emails. It will take time, effort and commitment, but it definitely can be done.

  19. Under no circumstances could I vote for Jeb either, nor Christie, Kasich and even Rubio has a lota splaining to do. There are probably a few others who I couldn’t vote for that I don’t consider viable candidates in the first place.
    Since Gowdy doesn’t have a SWAT team we already know the facts will never becomes public. So a different tact is needed. Pound on the character flaws the email and the foundation donations illustrate. Don’t over speculate on what this whole scheme is hiding but keep pointing out that it had to be designed to hide something. Prior bad acts by others isn’t an affirmative defense. Hillary’s MIB cleanup squad is trying to use Bill and Hillary’s prior bad acts as a defense.Smells like desperation. Shes working on coming up with some halfass answers but is delaying deploying them because she has no answers for the inevitable followup questions.
    Keep asking the American people if four or eight years of this same crap is really what they want.

  21. Congress has no SWAT team and relies on justice for enforcement there will be no server seizures.

  22. They may be toying with the idea on their leftiest fringes but they got nobody to replace her with, nobody. If she dropped dead tonight, Bill would have to start dressing in drag (in public).

  24. Nor should you.
    As has become PAINFULLY apparent in recent days, the GOP leadership is everything their detractors said they were.
    We’re not going to win any fights until we clean house.

  25. I’ll bet 55,000 pages would take ONE WEEK to go through if they were crowdsourced. On the one hand, massive potential breach of classified material. On the other hand, all our enemies probably already have it, and the need for transparency is greater.

  30. There is no substitute for the servers. Not only to ensure compliance that 100% of the emails are there (barring yet other hidden servers), but also to make a forensic examination to see if we can determine just how many times she was hacked and by whom.

  31. Or maybe Gowdy needs a crowd funding campaign to finance the cost of scanning and searching all those docs, within, say 30-60 days. Contributors would get first crack at a website with all non-redacted material.

  33. Soon and very soon, Hilieary will announce her emails were actually on Lois Lerner’s computer.

  38. IIRC, this was already a big scandal right after last year’s conference. I think that this year’s February news report was just a timely reminder.

    Also, the sheriff wasn’t kidding. Seaside is a coastal town in a rural (and therefore conservative) county, and his voters would want him to watch the conference like a hawk.

    They really overstepped their bounds last year, talking to teens about sex in a way that sometimes resembled promotion of perversion more than prevention of pregnancy. More like grooming than education.

    They keep on trying to push us into “a brave new world,” but there are still people pushing back. For now.

  40. I think they’re going to find that bell rings dull. People saw what the conservatives were so racist against Obama about. He’s just as corrupt as we said he was.

  41. Had this been any other Official, the FBI would’ve seized the entire server by now.

    But the Administration knows she’s holding evidence they don’t want made public either, and pressuring Hillary could result in selective email being leaked that they’re not willing to address.

  42. Stole this from a comment I read elsewhere:

    Hillary should be charged with violating the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

  43. If Mr. Gowdy wants to be picky, she hasn’t turned over one email, if I understand what the ‘e’ stands for.

    In the picture of her on board the military aircraft she appears to be holding a Blackberry. Research In Motion use their own BES servers. Her recent messages if not her emails may still be on them.

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