Mrs. Clinton’s refusal to talk stood in stark contrast to other secretaries, who all cooperated with the inspector general’s probe. But she didn’t have time to brush up on the basics from Email for Dummies so that idea was rejected.
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The system we used was set up for President Clinton’s office. It was on property guarded by the Secret Service.
On Jan. 9, 2011, a non-State Department technical adviser utilized by Clinton shut down the server because “someone was trying to hack us”.
The report “seemed to contradict numerous things you’ve said about the emails”, Todd said, before asking Clinton if she accepts everything the report said as fact.
LUKENS: No. Can I just go back?
Clinton and several of her staff members during her tenure declined to be interviewed, the report said. This week, the State Department’s inspector general exposed still more. It appeared to allow users to connect openly over the internet to control it remotely.
Sounding slightly exasperated, Clinton insisted she has done everything possible to help put the controversy behind her. “I think those are better directed to the campaign”. The State Department’s “Foreign Affairs Manual”, for example, says “that day-to-day operations should be conducted on an authorized (information system)”.
Top State Department officials knew of the secretary’s decision to operate outside of official policy.
The State Department’s Office of the Inspector General found that by routing a personal email address through a private server, Clinton might have skirted policies meant to uphold federal records keeping laws. They told the IG that they would not have approved Clinton’s email system, which involved the use of a private server and did not have the same security setup as the State Department’s official system.
After the report was released yesterday, Clinton held campaign events, including one in Anaheim where she came face-to-face with two shirtless superfans, who had pro-Clinton messages written on their chests.
Clinton defenders point to the email practices of Colin Powell, the secretary who used a private account for communication when he served from 2001 to 2005.
Her first mistake was to use a private and potentially vulnerable server for official email correspondences.
CLINTON: “It was fully above board”. A spokesman said Wednesday, “While not necessarily encouraged, there was no prohibition on using personal email”.
LUKENS: I don’t know what she was doing. – NBC News interview, September.
There were some 31,000 other emails that Clinton said were personal in nature and that she had deleted.
Trump said recently that he is “not a big fan” of the Paris climate agreement, which President Barack Obama has committed the United States to honoring.
Now that the State Department inspector general has released his report, the Hillary Clinton email scandal will be the sanity test for Americans. Lukens was told that Clinton could only send and receive email on her Blackberry smartphone. One of the employees stressed in one of the meetings that the information being transmitted needed to be preserved to satisfy federal records laws. The same director reportedly “instructed the staff never to speak of the Secretary’s personal email system again”. – CBS News interview in May.
“The crux of the issue was that BlackBerrys and iPhones are not allowed in the secretary’s office suite, so the question was: How is the secretary going to be able to check her e-mails if she’s not able to have the BlackBerry at her desk with her?” the official, Lewis Lukens, said in a deposition released Thursday by the conservative government transparency group Judicial Watch.
“I understand why people have concerns about this, but I hope voters look at the full picture of everything that I’ve done”, she stated.
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Asked whether an Federal Bureau of Investigation interview with her has been scheduled, she said: “No, it’s not, but I have offered since last August and I am looking forward to see this matter wrapped up”.
