2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary's Email Scandal for Non-Techy People [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)Timeline:
- Judicial Watch files FOIA request
- State responds with emails
- Blumenthal hacked, Clinton's email address revealed
- Judicial Watch sues the State Department because they did not properly respond to the FOIA request (they didn't have the emails)
- Judge orders Clinton to turn over her emails
- Clinton eventually turns over "non-personal" emails. State starts normal FOIA review, which involves the DNI's office looking for classified
- DNI's office says "Holy shit! There's TS in here!!". Gets DNI IG involved.
- DNI IG says, "Yep, classified". Calls FBI.
- FBI starts investigation.
- FBI seizes server to protect classified (standard procedure, actually. Doesn't indicate anything)
- Congress starts making noises about forming a committee. Clinton's IT guy takes the 5th in response.
- Benghazi committee makes some noises about looking into it....doesn't actually do so.
- Non-classified emails released to Judicial Watch*. Judicial Watch turns around and makes public anything vaguely embarrassing (their original goal)
- FBI recovers deleted emails, finds more that should have been turned over in that FOIA request, resulting in the judges in both FOIA lawsuits granting a larger fishing expedition.
- And here we are today.
Now, that * up there is to talk about one email that was not released. It was not classified, but the FBI had it withheld as part of their investigation. That's rather interesting - it might mean the investigation is not just about classified emails. It might be about pay-for-play via the Clinton foundation too. Or it might be something like the "take the markings off" email that has already come out and thus not mean anything special.