{"id":181500,"date":"2016-06-07T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/07\/how-convenient-14\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:52:00","slug":"how-convenient-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/07\/how-convenient-14\/","title":{"rendered":"How Convenient"},"content":{"rendered":"
Over at IBT David Sirota relates how he requested Clinton’s emails , and the is dragging its feet to keep the release until after election day<\/a>:<\/div>\n

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Trade is a hot issue in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. But correspondence from Hillary Clinton and her top State Department aides about a controversial 12-nation trade deal<\/a> will not be available for public review \u2014 at least not until after the election. The Obama administration abruptly blocked the release of Clinton\u2019s State Department correspondence about the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), after first saying it expected to produce the emails this spring.<\/p>\n

The decision came in response to International Business Times’ open records request<\/a> for correspondence between Clinton\u2019s State Department office and the United States Trade Representative. The request, which was submitted in July 2015, specifically asked for all such correspondence that made reference to the TPP.<\/p>\n

The State Department originally said<\/a> it estimated the request would be completed by April 2016. Last week the agency said<\/a> it had completed the search process for the correspondence but also said it was delaying the completion of the request until late November 2016 \u2014 weeks after the presidential election. The delay was issued in the same week the Obama administration filed a court motion<\/a> to try to kill a lawsuit aimed at forcing the federal government to more quickly comply with open records requests for Clinton-era State Department documents.<\/p>\n

Clinton\u2019s shifting positions on the TPP have been a source of controversy during the campaign: She repeatedly<\/a> promoted the deal as secretary of state but then in 2015 said<\/a>, “I did not work on TPP,” even though some leaked State Department cables<\/a> show that her agency was involved in diplomatic discussions about the pact. Under pressure from her Democratic primary opponent, Bernie Sanders, Clinton announced<\/a> in October that she now opposes the deal \u2014 and has disputed<\/a> that she ever fully backed it in the first place.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It gets even better, the State department has set a release date of November 31<\/a>, a non-existent date.<\/p>\n

And now the Donald Trump Campaign has gotten into the act<\/a>, and is demanding the emails as well.<\/p>\n

I know!  She’ll release the emails when everyone else does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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