When Clinton was sent a memo about hacking attempts aimed at State Department officials, she kept using her private email server – and the report says that server was briefly shut down twice when it appeared to be a target. She clearly saw the State Department as a private fiefdom, hence her use of a private server.
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Her private email use remains under investigation by the FBI.
The 83-page report by the Inspector General said Clinton risked the security of official information when she stored email on a private server, or equipment, in her home. “No one wants their personal emails made public and I think most people understand that and respect their privacy”, she said after her exclusive use of private emails to conduct State Department business was confirmed by media reports.
“Hillary Clinton’s use of personal email was not unique, and she took steps that went much further than others to appropriately preserve and release her records”.
The interest in Lazar’s possible connection to Clinton’s case also extends to Capitol Hill, where the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees have both purportedly sought to interview him.
Of 26 questionnaires sent to Clinton’s staff, only five were ever returned. “Secretary Clinton’s cybersecurity practices accordingly must be evaluated in light of these more comprehensive directives”, it said.
In the wake of the report Clinton’s campaign spokesmen have attempted to portray Clinton’s arrangement as a minor matter and that she basically did the same things that her predecessors did. Powell had reportedly received two sensitive emails, classified at the lowest level, during his time at State.
“The ledes of a lot of stories present this as a rough hit for Clinton, bad news blah blah blah”. Former Secretaries of State, Madeline Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and John Kerry were all interviewed.
The Department has implemented these requirements through various FAM provisions, including one that requires every departing employee to sign a separation statement (DS-109) certifying that he or she has surrendered all documentation related to the official business of the Government.
“By Secretary Clinton’s tenure, the department’s guidance was considerably more detailed and more sophisticated”, the report concluded. The State Department singled out Clinton’s failures as “more serious”, however, according to the Associated Press. When two officials in the record-keeping office raised concerns in 2010, a superior “instructed the staff never to speak of the secretary’s personal email system again”.
I’d just posted a lengthy piece on Hillary Clinton’s general-election prospects when a long-awaited report from the State Department’s inspector general, a watchdog appointed by President Obama, was leaked, a day in advance of its release on Thursday.
The independent agency also went after her for taking 22 months to turn over her emails to government after she left public service.
The inspector general’s report did not examine whether Clinton’s use of personal email had compromised any highly classified information; that’s the subject of an FBI investigation that’s still underway. Looking at the government sector, shadow IT has constantly gotten people in trouble for a host of other reasons: federal records laws, Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) violations, and privacy violations. Having said that, it’s true her nongovt account was on her family’s server, as opposed to commercial email account.
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Clinton sacrificed national security in order to shield her official correspondence from public scrutiny. But its IT department has supported BlackBerry devices for unclassified e-mail in the past, and if Clinton could have dealt with sticking to using a computer while inside the State Department secure compartmented information facility (SCIF) and using a BlackBerry for unclassified e-mail, the State Department could have probably accommodated her. 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.
