AP REBUKES CLINTON – AT 10:14 A.M. ET:  It's rare for a mainstream press organization to go after Hillary Clinton, even though the pickings are so rich.  But AP is pursuing Clinton on the e-mail issue.  From The Politico: 

The Associated Press rebuked the State Department on Monday, accusing the agency of dragging their feet on producing documents related to Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary.

The State Department, asked to produce Clinton’s public schedule for the duration of her time in office, has said it will need a month to process 400 pages of the material—a pace that, according to AP calculations, would require four years for the department to complete the task.

"AP (and the citizens of this nation) should not have to wait another four years, long after the 2016 election in which Secretary Clinton is a presidential candidate, to receive a full set of her schedules from her tenure as Secretary of State. AP respectfully suggests that a reasonable production schedule would require State to produce all of Secretary Clinton’s ‘mini schedules’ and ‘final schedules’ no later than the Spring of 2016," the AP wrote in court-filed response to the State Department.

COMMENT:  Clinton's problems are far from over.  The FBI investigation is expanding.  We're assuming she'll be the Democratic nominee next year, but maybe we'd better hedge our bets.  Once the holiday season is over, Clinton will try to run out the clock, securing her nomination before investigations are complete, or exhausting the investigators.  But she may not succeed. 

The person who controls Clinton's fate is Barack Obama.  We all know that.  He controls the Justice and State departments, and can ultimately decide what actions involving Clinton's past will be taken.  The Obamas and Clintons do not like each other.  We'll leave it at that for now.  Facts are being developed.

November 17, 2015