In the last screen shot, an image of Clinton is shown on screen with the statement “We’ve had enough of crooked Hillary’s lies'” next to her.
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THE REPORT: While it’s true that the State Department requested records from former secretaries of state in November 2014, the report says the department raised concerns about Clinton’s compliance with federal record-keeping laws years earlier, and the attention did not appear welcome. “I knew past secretaries of state used personal email”.
Though the report focuses many of its pages on Clinton and contradicts her campaign’s explanation of events a bit, it concludes, “Longstanding systemic weaknesses related to electronic record and communications. go well beyond the tenure of any one Secretary of State”. Clinton and her campaign’s attempt at damage control just do more damage. On Thursday, she told CNN “I thought it was allowed”. Clinton eventually handed over emails but that was nearly two years after leaving office, which “mitigated” that issue.
Critics have questioned whether her server might have made a tempting target for hackers, especially those working with or for foreign intelligence services.
Reuters/Aaron BernsteinU.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, U.S., May 16, 2016. The emphasis on State Department process with respect to guarding email traffic was useful.
As Hillary Clinton seeks to rebound from a highly critical report from the State Department’s inspector general, Senate investigators and a conservative group are zeroing in on newly revealed evidence about the activities of a now retired State Department computer specialist in orchestrating what they charge was a “cover-up” of the former secretary of state’s email practices. Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon issued a statement claiming that her practices were not unique and lambasting her political opponents, who “are sure to misrepresent this report for their own partisan purposes”.
It may conclude that the alternatives are worse, but it shouldn’t turn a blind eye toward how badly Ms. Clinton has betrayed the public trust and how much more risky the email issue may yet turn out to be.
Clinton has pointed to the lack of any evidence the arrangement compromised State Department information, but has conveniently left out troubling details.
“Secretary Clinton should have preserved any federal records she created and received on her personal account by printing and filing those records … because she did not do so, she did not comply with the department’s policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act”, the report said.
The system we used was set up for President Clinton’s office. While the politician claimed that she had allowed government officials to oversee all of her emails sent during her time as Secretary of State, the audit in fact found that months of email chains and messages were absent from the disclosure. It has recently interviewed Clinton’s top aides, including former chief of staff Cheryl Mills and deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin. Federal regulations hold that emails sent on non-government email accounts are still federal records.
On Jan. 9, 2011, a non-State Department technical adviser utilized by Clinton shut down the server because “someone was trying to hack us”.
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The absence of the emails suggests the possibility that Clinton or one of her employees deleted the record. Not only is Mrs. Clinton the only secretary of state to conduct her business exclusively on a private server, “the failings of Clinton were singled out in the audit as being more serious than her predecessor”, the AP noted. “She ignored them.” Further, “there is no excuse for the way Ms. Clinton breezed through all the warnings and notifications”, which was “disturbingly unmindful of the rules”. “The State Department has confirmed that”, she told the Associated Press.
