691,000 Emails in 8 Days? Unpossible!

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https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/795399836858286081

@SethAMandel
Gentlemen we have ourselves a Trumpworld talking point (and it's nonsense)

Computers! How do they work?

UPDATE: And now Bigboy jumps on the unpossible wagon!

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/795425768406917124

@ABC
Donald Trump responds to FBI letter: "You can't review 650,000 new emails in 8 days."

[onecaliberal]

1. The stupid is strong in republicans

[dhol82]

2. Goodness! The intertubes - how do they work?

Bunch of shits!

[MADem]

3. It's a SERIES OF TUBES, I tell ya....a SERIES OF TUBES!!!!! nt

[underpants]

4. Bernie Kerik!!! LMFAO

Ctrl+F it works

[Hekate]

22. He's certainly a blast fom the past.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. It's amazing how the FBI doesn't have any computer software to help...

... in such matters, huh?

[world wide wally]

6. How can idiots like this have more money than I do?

[miyazaki]

25. Rofl. I ask myself this type of thing all the time.

Guess I'm just another poor, honest sucker.

[LisaL]

7. This guy is a general?

[bhikkhu]

8. Perhaps the FBI has more than one employee?

and perhaps a computer could identify the ones they had already looked at - which may have been all of them?

[RedCloud]

60. Or Perhaps Trump's FBI will have just one person...

Most likely a family member

[BlueStreak]

9. Seriously, how stupid are these people?

#1 probably 90% of the stuff on that server was Anthony's so thiose can be ignored.

#2 the only thing relevant to the earlier investigation would be emails either from or to Hillary. There might be a few hundred of these.

#3 it is highly likely that 100% of those emails were already reviewed and cataloged. It just wouldn't take very long to match these.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. "Americans aren't stupid!" Yeah, yeah a lot of us kind of are.

[rurallib]

11. They got these guys in Russia to help a little ........................

[Kelt_Gyrl]

12. Rethuglican idiots!

I am sure the Republican assembly lives so far in the past that they fail to understand that there is something that is called a computer with software that can search for a number of parameters and scan a high volume of data very quickly. Technology is lost on them so all they do is continue to show us how stupid they really are!

[SummerSnow]

13. The stupid , it burns.

[Liberal Veteran]

15. Seems like perfectly cromulent thinking to me.

[Throckmorton]

27. I for one feel embiggened by your thought process. N/T

[longship]

32. Is that you, Evan Bernstein?

[Johnny2X2X]

16. CTRL F

Search function is handy.

I have at least 75,000 emails in my archive, I can search it easily and return every email from or to a specific person in about 3 seconds. They probably ran it through a few searches and did the same. And we still don't know how many personal emails from or to Hillary there were, maybe it was 5.

[LiberalFighter]

40. Actually they probably have a program that checks dupes based on the headers.

Probably using the message id associated with the email.

[getagrip_already]

55. it's a lot more sophisticated than that....

They can I'd forwarded emails with diff headers, as well as sections of messages embedded in other messages.

They knew by Monday morning. Probably sooner. They just slow walked the process with devastating results.

[The Wielding Truth]

17. Americans are stupid! Mass screening of mega data takes very little time.

If they are all duplicates and personal, how long could it take? Not long.

[napi21]

18. These guys are dumber than I imagined! Have they never heard of software

programs that can sort out information like emails to/from a particular person? Run your data through one of those programs and I'm surprised it took them NINE FRIGGIN DAYS to get the result! It shouldn't have taken more than three days max.

[Mr. Ected]

19. But they didn't question the NYT "debunking" the Trump/FBI/Russia connection in less than 24 hours

The right doesn't even try to lie well.

[spanone]

20. hey bernie! bwahahahahahaaaaa....

and they call Hillary a criminal!

[Liberal Veteran]

23. They must be truly in awe that you can type "Trump" into Google search and get 665 million hits

...in less than 1 second.

It's sorcery!

[apcalc]

28. Easy Peasy!

You have 691,000 FBI agents read one email apiece.

No problem.

[fierywoman]

29. None of these guys knows (or know of) ONE software/coder guy who could write a program to suss

out what's going on in the emails?!?!?!

[procon]

31. OMG - and this man was the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

I just heard Trump repeating the same thing, but then he still thinks you can clean out a hard drive with Clorox.

[scscholar]

33. The past nine years, I've averaged working 15 hours a day, seven days per week...

and I get nearly 400,000 emails per week. One email per second is certainly doable. I do it.

[KewlKat]

36. I guess rethuglicans have never heard of "sorting"? Not too difficult to filter them

to find what was sent to Hillary and what she sent. Then review those. Rethugs are seriously ignorant.....putie keeps them that way....short leash and lots of treats!

[whistler162]

37. Back in the day my then boss wrote a .net program

to search email archives in zip files on DVD's for certain email addresses. IIRC... it took less than a week to search 4 or 5 years worth of emails from a small/medium sized life insurance company. That was 5+ years ago.

[mfcorey1]

38. When looking at Weiner's dealings, most of the emails had already been scrutinized. There

were only a few they thought relevant to Hillary. Of course, repubs will never understand this. Moving on.

[rickford66]

39. They're not stupid, but the Goobers are.

They count on it.

[quaker bill]

42. There are 691,200,000,000,000 nanoseconds in 8 days

It is amazing how fast computers run these days. Once you use an algorithm to eliminate of all the duplicates of messages already reviewed, the list gets apparently much shorter.

[Skittles]

43. I cannot imagine how they think fingerprints are scanned

[ProfessorGAC]

49. They're Not Drawn in Crayon?

And they don't compare them one loop at a time by guys in green eyeshades? Darn, am i behind the times.

[mountain grammy]

44. They weren't to or from Hillary Clinton

and, yes, Americans worried about this crap are dumb. Trump voters are dumb. This whole thing is dumb.

[duncang]

45. Lets see

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Looking up "dipshit" on google. About 1,220,000 results (0.35 seconds) as per google.

One thing that probably took some time was cloning the hard drive. Since they wouldn't want to accidentally delete or modify anything. Keeping the hard drive in original condition is important for evidence in a possible case.


Edit: forgot to mention it was a 10 year old laptop. What size hard drive do they think it had? By the time system files, program files, wiener's files, free space, etc are on the computer how much hard drive would even be left?

[Egnever]

46. Are they going to explain how Hillary had time to write all of those emails?

Since they have such a firm grasp of time...

[malaise]

47. Wait wait - is that Bernard Kerik the prisoner

talking about stupid. He and noun, verb 9/11 define stupid and corrupt

[underpants]

54. Yes! The return of Bernie!!!

I posted above about him. I was shocked to see his name again.

[beachbum bob]

51. I heard Russians helped...

They have grown tired of the whiney manchild

[stone space]

52. I could write a program that weeds out the duplicates pretty quickly.

Then humans would focus on the new stuff, which is a much smaller pile of emails.

And if I could do it...

[quitnesset]

53. Disengenuous bastards

They know full well that the review was done correctly in nine days.. they count on low information tRump supporters to have no clue as to how a computer and software work.

[getagrip_already]

56. any teacher can run ....

Hundreds of papers through a package to detect plagerism in minutes. It searches the internet for phrases, and can find matches from millions of sources.

What the fbi did was child's play.

[duncang]

57. I bet if anything it may be how many files total on the computer.

Not how many emails.

[Buns_of_Fire]

58. Once they filtered out the .jpg wiener shots, that probably

cut the number that required further examination down considerably.

[LynnTTT]

59. Easy Peasey

When I can't find an old email I need, I just search by name, or subject and up pops the many emails that match that search. And I suspect the FBI and it's staff have more up to date devices and software than my connections.