Hillary's Email Problems Got Worse in Early June

A former Secret Service agent has written in a new book about Hillary Clinton’s “Jekyll and Hyde” temper. Gary Byrne writes in the introduction of “Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill and How They Operate,” that Hillary was “erratic, uncontrollable and occasionally violent....she simply lacks the integrity and temperament to serve in the office....And with Hillary’s latest rise, I realize that her own leadership style – volcanic, impulsive, enabled by sycophants and disdainful of the rule set for everyone else – hasn’t changed a bit.” The book is due out June 28. ~~~~~ But, it seems, lawyers for the State Department are doing their best to keep the former Secretary on track for the presidency and off the public record, saying in a court filing in early June it would take 75 years to release the emails of Hillary Clinton's staffers. The filing noted that the records requested in two lawsuits by the Republican National Committee consist of 450,000 pages and include the former Secretary of State's aides Cheryl Mills and Jacob Sullivan as well as State Department official Patrick Kennedy : "Given the Department's current [Freedom of Information Act] (FOIA) workload and the complexity of these documents, it can process about 500 pages a month...16-and-2/3 years to complete the review of the Mills documents, 33-and-1/3 years [for] the Sullivan documents, and 25 years [for] the Kennedy documents – or 75 years in total." State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau told CNN that FOIA requests have tripled since 2008 : "In fiscal year 2015 alone we received approximately 22,000 FOIA requests." ~~~~~ The State Department refusal to comply with FOIA law is illegal and should be an investigation in itself, but Americans and GOP congressional oversight seem to be indifferent to this massive cover-up, remaining silent in the face of the apparent arrogance of the President in allowing his State - and Justice - Departments to flout the law. ~~~~~ Also in early June, legal public interest watchdog Judicial Watch released the transcript of a three-hour deposition with a senior State Department aide about Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Stephen Mull, State Department Executive Secretary under Clinton, is the third person interviewed in the FOIA lawsuit seeking to make public the details of Clinton's controversial email setup. In his deposition recorded at the Justice Department, Mull provided few new details about Clinton’s email arrangement or State’s record-keeping practices, repeatedly insisting he could not recall various aspects of the setup. In particular, Mull testified he had no memory of what led him to write a 2011 email proposing that Hillary use a State Department email account on one of two department-issued BlackBerry devices. “I don't recall why, no....I don't recall the circumstances that led me to -- to write that.” In the 2011 email, Mull assured Clinton aides that the government email account would “mask her identity” but “would also be subject to FOIA requests." Mull said : “I can't recall the circumstances that led me to write this. But I do speculate it would have been to ensure that it was clear that Secretary Clinton's name would not appear on the State Department's directory.” At the time, longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin told Mull a BlackBerry using a State 'dot gov' email account “doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.” ~~~~~ Dear readers, two related facts are red flags. First, IT expert Bryan Pagliano, who set up and maintained Hillary's secret email server, was scheduled to be deposed in early June, but a federal judge delayed the interview after Pagliano’s lawyers said he would assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. And, if that doesn't disturb and anger America, this really should. Stephen Mull is now the Obama administration’s lead coordinator of implementation for the Iran nuclear deal. Did his poor memory land Mull the new job -- or was it perhaps payment for lying under oath on behalf of Hillary.