The State Department’s Office of Inspector General has released its report about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
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Clinton admits she’s a bad campaigner, but she makes matters worse with decisions such as brushing off the 2010 urging to start using government email, not releasing some emails, refusing to talk to the inspector general for this report and refusing to release the text of her speeches to Wall Street.
ATTORNEY: Okay. Did you – do you know what she was doing on her BlackBerry at that time? Sometimes (but rarely), it’s actually mission-essential. Later that day, the server was shut down again over the same concern.
Often, people use shadow IT at work because of a lack of official IT resources to support a need.
“Nobody wants their personal emails made public”.
A technical adviser retained by Bill Clinton told Abedin that the server at the Clinton home was shut down because he thought “someone was trying to hack us and while they did not get in i didnt [sic] want to let them have the chance to”.
Her practices failed to comply with departmental policies and procedures that are aimed at ensuring that federal record laws are followed. They used it because it was more convenient than the VA’s internal shared calendar system.
In a report delivered to members of Congress on Wednesday, the inspector general said that Clinton “had an obligation to discuss using her personal email account to conduct official business” with officials responsible for handling records and security but that inspectors “found no evidence” that she had requested or received approval from anyone at the department to conduct her state business on a personal email.
The publishing of evidence given on videotape to lawyers in the Hillary Clinton email case has been blocked by a federal judge.
Trump, who Thursday reached the milestone of 1,237 delegates necessary to clinch the nomination, attacked Clinton’s “bad judgment” about using a private email account and called the State Department’s report “devastating”.
‘Actually, I sorta like her in the race. All of this seems a bit sloppy – both on the part of Clinton and the State Department.
Sure, the State Department’s IT support is not exactly customer-centric.
Contradicting her claims that she has fully cooperated with the email probe, Clinton and her top aides declined to be interviewed by the Inspector General. It was purely about Clinton’s discomfort about using a PC for e-mail and her desire to use e-mail just like she did while running for office.
Clinton argued that the report shows how she was not the only secretary of state who used a personal email account, and that she, unlike her predecessors, turned over “all” of her emails.
The new report comes at a particularly challenging time for the Clinton campaign, as she faces a two-front war against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump and primary rival Bernie Sanders.
As the OIG reported, all State Department employees were instructed, during Clinton’s time as secretary of state, to seek technical guidance from the agency before using non-government email accounts to transmit information considered sensitive but unclassified.
‘It’s shocking to see what she did, ‘ he said.
A State Department spokesman on Thursday questioned why those with knowledge of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email didn’t provide better information, adding “there was only a partial understanding of how much Secretary Clinton relied on personal email”. Madeline Albright never even sent e-mails.
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The way that Hillary Clinton handled her emails while Secretary of State showed that she seemed to think that the government’s rules did not apply to her and that she could ignore them without effect. It’s the entitled executive syndrome writ large.
