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Rush Limbaugh November 10th 2017

Nov 10, 20172 min
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is giving hundreds of state department officials an assignment to clear up the huge backlog of public records request, which for some officials believe could be for political reasons.

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Have a little news flash. Are Fox of Business guy as making a government agency more efficient and the government agency hates it. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, former Exon CEO, is giving hundreds of State Department officials and assignment clear up the huge backlog of public records requests. But by trying to make the State Department more transparent, Tillerson is making State Department employees mad. Why should clearing a backlog

be a problem, Well, it's turned to political for the answer. Apparently, many State Department workers believe that Tillerson has an old terior reason to clear up the records backlog. Of political reason, Clearing the backlog means that thousands of former Secretary State Clinton's official emails will now be released instead of staying buried at the department for years or decades or maybe forever. There are over thirteen thousand Freedom of Information Act requests

on file, many involving documents from Hillary's tenure. Allow Those requests are from conservative groups. Judicial Watch says the State Department has yet to process at least seventy two thousand records containing Hillary emails. Another thing has State Department officials fuming they resent being asked to do work that should be done by lower levels staffers and interns. It's beneath them.

The assignment is turning them into glorified clerks. This is classic, folks, This is the swamp in the deep state is deeply mad.

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