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h/t Bookworm

Running out the clock?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven months after a federal judge ordered the State Department to begin releasing monthly batches of the detailed daily schedules showing meetings by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, the government told The Associated Press it won’t finish the job before Election Day.

The AP’s lawyers late Friday formally asked the State Department to hasten that effort so that the department could provide all Clinton’s minute-by-minute schedules by Oct. 15. The agency did not immediately respond.

The schedules drew new attention this week after the AP analyzed the ones released so far. The news agency found that more than half the people outside the government who met or spoke by telephone with Clinton while she was secretary of state had given money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. The AP’s analysis focused on people with private interests and excluded her meetings or calls with U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives.

The AP’s reporting was based on official calendars covering Clinton’s entire term plus the more-detailed daily schedules covering roughly half her time as secretary of state. The AP first asked for Clinton’s calendars in 2010 and again in 2013. It then sued the State Department in federal court to obtain the detailed schedules, and the department so far has provided about half of them under court order.

...It was unclear whether the judge will reconsider his earlier decision and order faster results. In the AP’s lawsuit over other Clinton-related files, Leon has said it would be “ridiculous” to allow the State Department to delay until even weeks before the election. He also cited “mounting frustration that this is a project where the State Department may be running out the clock.”

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h/t David Adams

Protected?

This German photographer for the Associated Press was killed and a reporter was injured, when, according to the Associate Press,

As they were sitting in the car waiting for the convoy to move, a unit commander named Naqibullah walked up to the car, yelled “Allahu Akbar” — God is Great — and opened fire on them in the back seat with his AK-47. He then surrendered to the other police and was arrested.

The two were traveling in a convoy of election workers delivering ballots from the centre of Khost city to the outskirts, in Tani district. The convoy was protected by the Afghan National Army and Afghan police. They were in their own car with a freelancer and a driver. - See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2014/04/ap-photographer-shot-death-journalist-wounded-unit-commander-walked-car-yelled-allahu-akbar-opened-fire.html/#sthash.oVb8cRVx.dpuf

Protected?
Pamela Geller comments,

The terrible irony here is that the AP is the template for Islamic apologism. They self-enforce sharia, they do not criticize Islam, they scrub and whitewash jihad and will smear and defame anyone who speaks candidly about jihad and sharia. It’s why they are known in the blogosphere as Associated [with terrorists] Press. But their willing subjugation doesn’t matter. The sooner that the media begins to understand this and the doctrine of the enemy, the sooner we can begin to win the war against the savages. - See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2014/04/ap-photographer-shot-death-journalist-wounded-unit-commander-walked-car-yelled-allahu-akbar-opened-fire.html/#sthash.oVb8cRVx.dpuf