Patterico's Pontifications

9/7/2016

Judge: Go Ahead and Release Some Clinton Docs After the Election

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:30 am



February 2017 — that’s after the election, right?

A federal judge on Tuesday gave the State Department until February 2017 to release the full 1,600-page file of records about official events during Hillary Clinton’s tenure, assuring that the full batch is not public by Election Day.

Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia declared that the State Department will have to release at least 300 pages of the records per month to the Republican National Committee (RNC), which has sued the Obama administration over the materials.

The order is nonetheless a setback for the RNC, which had pleaded with the court in August for the entire slate of records to be made public well before the November election.
“The RNC believes that State should produce all the responsive documents no later than October 15, 2016,” it said in an August court filing.

At issue are details about official functions held in the State Department’s ornate Diplomatic Reception Room during the time that Clinton was secretary of State, including guest lists.

The RNC had filed a lawsuit seeking the information under the Freedom of Information Act, presumably to see whether a disproportionate number of non-governmental associates of Clinton’s were invited to the events.

I’d be more upset if I thought anyone would actually care what the documents said. But I no longer believe that facts matter much to electoral decisions.

Also I don’t care who wins. So there’s that.


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