Why is the State Department protecting Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation? What are they hiding? Those are just a few of the questions being asked far and wide since the news broke that the State Department went hat in hand to Judge Rudolph Contreras and asked for a major extension.

Department of Justice officials filed a motion in federal court late Wednesday seeking a 27-month delay in producing correspondence between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s four top aides and officials with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a closely allied public relations firm that Bill Clinton helped launch.

What does this mean? The math is simple. Any emails that would detail ethical violations, favor currying, meetings on State Department (taxpayer dime) that benefit the Clinton Foundation and therefore the presumptive Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton won’t be released to the court and therefore the public until nearly TWO YEARS after the election. TWO YEARS.

@TwitchyTeam OUR US Dept. of State have chosen their candidate N they're going to do everything they can 2 help her win

— Byron (@Byronditto) June 30, 2016

Pretty much. Look, the State Department has had plenty of time to deal with these emails and fulfill the judge’s orders to submit them by July 21. But all of a sudden, instead of 6,000 plus emails, now there are 34,000 plus emails and not enough resources to meet the requirements? Lets see, it might be because…errors in how the information is reviewed? Yeah, its that and well, other logistical reasons.

Borson also provided new details about how few resources the State Department has devoted to answering 106 separate Freedom of Information Act requests that are pending before it, many of them ordered by federal judges. Only 71 “part-time” retired foreign service officers are being used to review all of the pending FOIA requests.
The State Department also revealed that despite the large number of requests seeking information about Secretary Clinton’s ties to the Clinton Foundation over the last two years, the Obama administration has not requested additional funds for reviewers. [Emphasis Added]

Alrighty then! In spite of the court ordering the State Department to comply, those who are combing through the emails are only on board PART TIME??!! Not only that, but somehow the State Department couldn’t review budget and free up funds elsewhere?? Something’s fishy.

One must ask…what does the State Department itself have to hide? Unlike Hillary, they might not have the luxury of wiping servers with cloths or anything else.

Moreover, the State Department’s role in turning a blind eye to the multiple Clinton donors traipsing through the doors during her tenure should anger everyone. And don’t get me started on their complicity in the naming of Clinton Donor and Bundler Rajiv Fernando to the International Security Advisory Board (ISAB) after he donated approximately $1million to the foundation and nearly $10 thousand to both of Hillary’s presidential campaigns.

Keep in mind, this donor sat on this board and was privy to ultra classified information even though he DIDN’T have a security clearance!! Let me repeat that. He was privy to highly classified top secret information going through the State Department and had ZERO clearance whatsoever. Of COURSE the State Department wants to hold off on releasing emails. Of course.

Clinton friend Patrick Kennedy, who is still working for the State Department has many reasons for this delay. This excuse is classic:

A senior State Department official said this week that he simply didn’t find anything unusual about former Secretary Hillary Clinton’s exclusive use of a private email account for work.

“It did not register,” Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy told lawyers with conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch this week, during a 2.5-hour deposition at the Justice Department.

“It did not strike any bells in my mind.”

RIIGHT.

No matter which way the State Department and this administration want to spin it, this whole thing stinks to high heaven.

@ShannonBream You kick the can far enough down the road that eventually you run out of road and/or people stop caring. This is criminal

— Phil Hartmark (@philhartmark) June 30, 2016

Ethics, Character, Honesty. Three things sadly lacking with the State Department and the presumptive nominee for President. Is this really what we want? Unfortunately, this is what we may end up with.