Posted: 12:04 am EST
Corrected title: 12:37 am EST
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Hurrrrrrry!

The exchange below, courtesy of state.gov:

QUESTION: Okay. Can you say whether you will wait until the review of all 55,000 pages is done before you release any, or will you look at one and say, “Okay, this one is okay,” and then turn it over?

MS. PSAKI: I would not anticipate we release page by page, but I don’t have any prediction for how the process will run at this point in terms of the public release.

QUESTION: And did you ever get the answer – and I – you may have, I don’t know; and I apologize because I wasn’t here – whether these were handed – were given to you by her office electronically or in paper?

MS. PSAKI: In paper.

QUESTION: So they pulled up a backloader or something into the – (laughter) – I mean, what did they come in with, a truck full of – 55,000 pages is a lot, so —

MS. PSAKI: That is a lot, yes.

QUESTION: So I’m just curious, were they boxed up? Were they – are they just all jumbled together? Are they in order of date or by topic?

MS. PSAKI: There were several boxes back —

QUESTION: Several?

MS. PSAKI: Yes.

QUESTION: 55,000 pages, several boxes? (Laughter.)

MS. PSAKI: That is quite a few boxes, which speaks to – it did cover – these do cover the span of her time at the State Department. In terms of what the boxes look like or the order, I don’t have that level of detail.

QUESTION: Okay. But I mean, you believe – and you’re taking them at their word that they separated out all of the emails from her private account that are business related, and that that 55,000 pages is the universe but – and you think that they’ve been cooperative. So that would imply that you don’t think that they just dumped them in all in a box willy-nilly – or boxes – and gave them to you.

I mean, how exactly is this review going about? Is it chronological? Are you just picking up a box – or whoever’s doing it – just picking up one box here and going through this? I’m just wondering if there’s any order or system to —

MS. PSAKI: I certainly understand your questions. Because this is just underway – obviously, this is new as of last week, as you just outlined in your question – I don’t have anything at this point to outline in terms of the order of the process. If there’s more details, I’m sure we can share those.

QUESTION: I believe the question came up last week about whether IRM, your Information Resources Management people, or DS had taken a look at the arrangements that she had at her home in Chappaqua and determined that they were okay and not – that they met standards for not being compromised.

MS. PSAKI: It did come up last week. I don’t have any update on that at this point.

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