I posted this in another thread yesterday, but it's revelant to this story too:
Clinton deleted 31,000 emails, claiming they were "personal." But what Clinton considers "personal" clearly isn't what other people consider personal.
At least 150 more previously unknown Clinton emails came out this month, mostly due to a batch of Huma Abedin emails being released, with lots of them between her and Clinton. I've looked them over, and nearly all or all of them were work related, and yet Clinton apparently thought they were "personal." Remember she said that if there were any emails that were borderline at all, she turned those over, just to be sure. That turns out not to be true. And other emails have come out that she didn't turn over that were clearly work related, including emails between her and David Petraeus and her and Sid Blumenthal.
People have said all along that it shouldn't have been up to her to decide what was personal and what was not, because what if she deliberately held back work emails? How would anyone know? And that's exactly what we're seeing, now that more of her deleted emails are coming to light through other sources. That's a clear violation of the law.
Due to another lawsuit, all of Huma Abedin's State Department emails have started to be publicly released. 400 pages are due to be released each month for a total off 29,000 pages. (I don't know why they're measuring in pages instead of emails, but they are.)
For some weird reason, the release of the first batch of Abedin's emails hardly made any news. (My guess is because reporters are too lazy or busy to go through them one by one to figure out which ones were released already.) But I looked them over carefully, because many of them are between her and Clinton. Now, out of those, most of them were from the first two months of Clinton's time as secretary of state, and Clinton released NO emails from that time. So that's not a fair measure of her emails as a whole.
Thus, I put those aside and looked at about 30 emails from that batch release that seemed to be a random sample of the rest of Clinton's secretary of state tenure. They're scattered all over, from 2009 to late 2012. I checked those carefully against the 30,000 emails Clinton publicly released. Out of them, I found 15 that were not the same, and 16 that were. So, about 50/50. They all looked work related to me, which isn't surprising since Abedin was Clinton's deputy chief of staff. Five of them were actually Clinton's replies to Abedin email that WERE turned over in Clinton's 30,000, so it makes no sense to argue the replies were somehow not work related.
But keep in mind that's just one small portion of the first batch of Abedin's emails, that make up far less than one percent of all of Abedin's emails. If it turns out that Clinton deleted work emails at the same ratio as he did with this small batch, some simple math shows that thousands of emails between Clinton and Abedin alone should have been turned over by Clinton but weren't. At least 3,000, if that sample is accurate. And that's just emails with one person! Of the 30,000 emails Clinton did turn over, about 15% of them were between her and Abedin. If that ratio is roughly accurate for her deleted emails, we should see thousands more work emails that she failed to turn over between her and other people. It could easily be over 10,000 emails were improperly deleted, out of the 30,000.
Of course that's just a back of the envelope calculation based on a small sample. But I don't see how it can be denied that Clinton failed to turn over a large number of emails that she should have. This is not just a few stray emails here and there.
And by the way, the next batch of 400 pages of Huma Abedin emails will be publicly released around the beginning of June. I'm sure we'll find many more "missing" Clinton emails there. Then there will 400 page releases of her emails every month into 2017 or 2018. Meanwhile, her other top aides' emails will be released in batches in the months to come, due to more Freedom of Information Act lawsuits. So get ready for stories about more of Clinton's "missing" emails literally for the next couple of years.
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