State Department report on Clinton's email practices

[LiberalArkie]

The State Department's independent watchdog has issued a highly critical analysis of Hillary Clinton's email practices while running the department, concluding that she failed to seek legal approval for her use of a private email server and that department staff would not have given its blessing because of the "security risks in doing so."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/state-department-report-on-clintons-email-practices/2039/?tid=a_inl

[global1]

1. Drip-Drip-Drip.....nt

[dchill]

3. As long as the dripping is slow enough...

She can become the nominee. Then everything will be fine!

[tex-wyo-dem]

5. Yep, it's starting to come from all sides now...

State Department, FOIA lawsuit which will release information this week, the FBI investigation, which is anybody's guess when that shoe will drop, security officials going public with damning criticism of Hillary's email server and information contain on it exposed to hackers...

...and of course Trump is using this like a hammer.

This is really really bad for the Democratic Party.

[trudyco]

12. Don't forget Terry McA and the FBI looking at him as Clinton Foundation director

And there was something last year being investigated about the Clinton Foundation.

[leveymg]

2. The Intelligence Community's IG's report likely will conclude she mishandled IC classified info

The FBI report that follows that will make the same findings, but I believe will withhold a recommendation and state that the decision whether to indict is up to the Attorney General. But, Mrs. Clinton cannot now proceed as the Democratic Party's candidate. The GOP would love to run against a proven security risk and unindicted co-conspirator. We cannot allow her to do so under these circumstances, and the Party must replace her.

[leveymg]

6. In its broad contours, the State Dept report finds what we expected it would.

The inspector general, in a long awaited review obtained Wednesday by The Washington Post in advance of its publication, found that Clinton’s use of private email for public business was “not an appropriate method” of preserving documents and that her practices failed to comply with department policies meant to ensure that federal record laws are followed.

The report says Clinton, who is the Democratic presidential front-runner, should have printed and saved her emails during her four years in office or surrendered her work-related correspondence immediately upon stepping down in February 2013. Instead, Clinton provided those records in December 2014, nearly two years after leaving office.

The report found that a top Clinton aide was warned in 2010 that the system may not properly preserve records but dismissed those worries, indicating that the system passed legal muster. But the inspector general said it could not show evidence of a review by legal counsel.

There are at least three ongoing investigations into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's time as Secretary of State. Here's an explanation of who is investigating, and why.

A Clinton spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

[Yurovsky]

4. Nothing to see here...

7 years later and still no legitimate reason for why she set up her secret server.

Occam's Razor time... she did it to hide activities that were illegal or at the very least highly unethical and immoral. Prosecute her, Bill, and anyone else who knowingly participated in this scam. The law should apply to all, and the oligarchy should not be exempt.

[Demsrule86]

7. Righties and BSSERs desperate.

The State Department's internal investigation arm issued a final memorandum today on the email practices of past and current secretaries of state, and it said definitively that past secretaries handled classified material on unclassified email systems.

The same claims were made in an early February memo when the State Department's inspector general first announced it was conducting a records review related to the email accounts of five secretaries of state -- Madeline Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry -- and their immediate staff.

After closely examining a number of potentially sensitive emails with help from State Department and Intelligence Community officials, the State Department's inspector general concluded that 12 emails contain "national security information classified at the Secret or Confidential levels." Additionally, it was determined none of the emails contained intelligence information, meaning it was classified for other reasons.

The emails in question, as the inspector general has previously stated, came from Secretary Powell's personal email account and personal email accounts of Secretary Rice's immediate staff.

In a recent statements to ABC News, Powell disputed the claims.

"I have reviewed the messages and I do not see what makes them classified." Powell said. "The emails were from my Executive Assistant and forwarded messages sent by two of our Ambassadors to State Department staff members. My Executive Assistant thought I should see them in a timely manner so sent them to my personal account. Both messages were unclassified. There was no reason not to forward them in this manner. ... The Ambassadors did not believe the contents were Confidential at the time and they were sent as unclassified. That is a fact. While they have not yet clarified this point, the State Department cannot now say they were classified then because they weren't. If the Department wishes to say a dozen years later they should have been classified that is an opinion of the Department that I do not share."

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[frylock]

8. Colin Powell

[leveymg]

10. Unfortunately, there's a statute of limitations on fraud

and the other crimes he's perpetuated during his stay with the Bush Administrations.

[Octafish]

9. You arrest one, though, and pretty soon one arrest leads to another...

Remember Scooter Libby, Judith Miller and "The Aspens."



Like Scooter reminded Judy, then an imprisoned NYT reporter, they're all connected underground.

The Aspen parts that do show are pretty white.

[bigwillq]

11. Clinton can't even work e-mail right, but we're going to elect her president.

Only in America.

Wipe it.

With a cloth.

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. Give her the launch codes and the 'football'

It only weighs 45 lbs.

[Autumn]

13. I think the problem isn't personal email, or a private server in her basement. She did not comply

with the State Department's policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act and while other SOS's were interviewed on their practices she and her aids declined to be interviewed.

[casperthegm]

14. Clinton has the experience

It's her big argument, right? But has all that experience led to good decisions? Maybe, if you ignore the emails, fracking, Iraq, no-fly zones, Wall Street speeches, opposition to Glass Steagall, opposition to healthcare for all, etc. What an insightful argument for Clinton...