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(11,641 posts)3. WaPo: "State Dept. inspector general report sharply criticizes Clinton’s email practices"
State Dept. inspector general report sharply criticizes Clintons email practices
By Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger May 25 at 10:18 AM
The State Departments independent watchdog has issued a highly critical analysis of Hillary Clintons 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.
The inspector general, in a long awaited review obtained Wednesday by The Washington Post in advance of its publication, found that Clintons 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 federal record laws are followed.
The report says she 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 had passed legal muster. But the inspector general said it could not show evidence of a review by legal counsel.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/state-dept-inspector-general-report-sharply-criticizes-clintons-email-practices/2016/05/25/fc6f8ebc-2275-11e6-aa84-42391ba52c91_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%252Bnation
By Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger May 25 at 10:18 AM
The State Departments independent watchdog has issued a highly critical analysis of Hillary Clintons 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.
The inspector general, in a long awaited review obtained Wednesday by The Washington Post in advance of its publication, found that Clintons 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 federal record laws are followed.
The report says she 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 had passed legal muster. But the inspector general said it could not show evidence of a review by legal counsel.
Read more:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/state-dept-inspector-general-report-sharply-criticizes-clintons-email-practices/2016/05/25/fc6f8ebc-2275-11e6-aa84-42391ba52c91_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%252Bnation
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Breaking: State Dept report sharply criticizes Clinton's email practices...MSNBC... She is... [View all]
ChisolmTrailDem
May 2016
OP
Not serious at all...some have been waiting and hoping the hammer will finally drop to no avail.
asuhornets
May 2016
#19
No he hasn't. He's been campaigning for president and speaking truth to power. nt
ChisolmTrailDem
May 2016
#104
Breaking the rules are different from breaking the law. Everyone knows she used a private server..nt
asuhornets
May 2016
#42
You know it takes time to investigate 60,000 emails, dot all the Is and cross all the Ts.
Fawke Em
May 2016
#109
What an odd question, unless you're a conspiracy nut. Did they not teach about that in your...
ChisolmTrailDem
May 2016
#86
I am not sure her supporters care about her lack of compliance with federal law.
IdaBriggs
May 2016
#2
The only thing they would have in their collective memory of that appearance on live television is..
cherokeeprogressive
May 2016
#26
Her supporters cling to the Gowdy Bengahazi hearings like a security blanket from all of this.
morningfog
May 2016
#31
WaPo: "State Dept. inspector general report sharply criticizes Clinton’s email practices"
think
May 2016
#3
She was at the head of the State Department. But you knew that already.
DisgustipatedinCA
May 2016
#29
Uh... how would State maintain e-mails from a server hidden from them by Hillary?
lagomorph777
May 2016
#33
So it's ok for Hillary to possess bad judgement because everybody else did, including...
ChisolmTrailDem
May 2016
#65
The day I start my fast, you have to pop up an image of toast. Mmm Toast. Be strong... T-O-A-S-T!
TheBlackAdder
May 2016
#25
*whew*. thanks. Was worried there that Trump would *POUND* her with this. what a relief!
yodermon
May 2016
#55
Did you read the post yesterday? It was Kerry who first made the first request for them to look
pdsimdars
May 2016
#99
Hillarians respond to State Department Inspector General's report of wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton:
Kip Humphrey
May 2016
#57
And it was brilliant and I remembered it . Maybe now I can remember it completely.
pdsimdars
May 2016
#122
The report also criticized government email security in general. It's a systematic issue.
Trust Buster
May 2016
#60
Oh, so because everyone else showed bad judgement, that makes it ok for...
ChisolmTrailDem
May 2016
#87
No, it means that, if they wish to fix the systematic problem of a government unprepared for the
Trust Buster
May 2016
#89
How many SoSs had their own servers in order to avoid government records laws? nt
ChisolmTrailDem
May 2016
#90
I don't really care. I don't share your political motivations to attack Hillary Clinton.
Trust Buster
May 2016
#94
But it was HER TURN. I think that's all the vetting they needed. Apparently.
pdsimdars
May 2016
#103