12/13/2023 0 Comments Gawker sued![]() These newly discovered records are from Reines’ government account, and are not related to the 20 boxes of government-business emails stored on his personal account that Reines recently handed over to the government, despite his prior claims to Gawker that his official use of non-governmental email was limited: “My personal email was the last place I wanted reporters intruding.”Ĭonsidering the number of potentially responsive emails contained in Reines’ email account, it’s hard to see the agency’s initial denial as anything other than willful incompetence-if not the conscious effort, or the result of someone else’s conscious effort, to stonewall news outlets. It is not clear how the State Department managed to locate this tranche of Reines’ correspondence when it had previously asserted that the emails simply didn’t exist. Moreover, some of the responsive records may need to be referred to other agencies for consultation or processing. Therefore, the Department believes that it will need to conduct a line- by-line review of an estimated 17,855 emails for applicable FOIA exemptions. Based on a review of a portion of these emails, the Department estimates that 22% of the 81,159 emails may be responsive. The assemblage comprises approximately 5.5 gigabytes of data containing 81,159 emails of varying length. Reines’ email account (as opposed to records it received from his personal email account). The Department has conducted its preliminary review of the potentially responsive electronic documents in its possession, custody, and control from Mr. Of those emails, the attorneys added, “an estimated 17,855” were likely responsive to Gawker’s request: District Court of the District of Columbia in which it disclosed that State employees had somehow discovered “5.5 gigabytes of data containing 81,159 emails of varying length” that were sent or received by Reines during his government tenure. Attorney General submitted a court-ordered status report to the U.S. Late last week, however, the State Department came up with a very different answer: It had located an estimated 17,000 emails responsive to Gawker’s request. Over two years ago, the department claimed that “no records responsive to your request were located”-a baffling assertion, given Reines’ well-documented correspondence with journalists. Earlier this year, Gawker Media sued the State Department over its response to a Freedom of Information Act request we filed in 2013, in which we sought emails exchanged between reporters at 33 news outlets and Philippe Reines, the former deputy assistant secretary of state and aggressive defender of Hillary Clinton. ![]()
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