BREAKING: FBI RECOVERS HILLARY'S DELETED EMAILS

[Art_from_Ark]

37. "Have (been")+ past participle = present perfect tense

The present perfect tense can signify events that happened in the past, are continuing to happen in the present, or, occasionally, are expected to be completed in the future.

I have been to Mexico-- happened in the past
I have just finished my report--- happened in the recent past
The race has just begun-- recently started and is continuing
I have been a voter since the 1970s-- past event that is continuing to happen in the present
Once the votes have been counted...-- an event that is expected to be completed in the future

However, the second clause contains the verb phrase "have been separating", which is the present perfect progressive tense that indicates that something began in the past and is continuing to the present.

So the choice of verbs/wording in the first two clauses is odd, because the first clause implies that the act of extracting emails has not been completed yet and the second clause would then be dependent on the extraction being completed. However, the use of the present perfect progressive in the second clause indicates that the second action (separating) has already begun, independent of the first action.