In addition, Clinton regularly communicated with top aides on their own private e-mail accounts and, as the IG explains, “none of these e-mails were preserved in Department record keeping systems before their production in 2015”.
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He assumed Clinton’s efforts to get a special computer to access her private email was strictly for “family and friends”.
A key email from Hillary Clinton to a top State Department aide in 2010 expressing worry that her personal messages could become “accessible” to outsiders is cited in a new inspector general’s report on her emails. The Clinton campaign has previously denied that her home server was breached, but newly revealed emails show aides anxious it could have been compromised.
“The fact is people have official accounts, they have personal accounts, and when it comes to personal they don’t want their personal accounts made public”, Clinton told Todd. “I have said many times it was a mistake and if I could go back I would do it differently”.
A spokesman for the Clinton campaign did not respond to emailed questions Thursday.
The sharp rebuke from the State Department’s inspector general, which found Ms Clinton did not seek legal approval for her homebrew email server, guarantees that the issue will remain alive and well for the likely Democratic presidential nominee for a second summer. The State Department singled out Clinton’s failures as “more serious”, however, according to the Associated Press.
The Clinton campaign seized on reports in February that Powell had been contacted by the FBI as part of its investigation into private emails that contained classified information.
Yes, Secretary of State Colin Powell did so from 2001-05. “I knew past secretaries of state used personal email”.
This is in sharp contrast to the IG’s investigation, where Clinton and her senior aides flatly refused to talk to his investigators. Asked Blitzer: “Are you accusing the inspector general of the State Department” – a Democratic appointee – “of having an anti-Clinton bias?” “Secretary Clinton’s cybersecurity practices accordingly must be evaluated in light of these more comprehensive directives”. Clinton was warned by a State Department official in March 2009 to stop using her BlackBerry because her device suffered a security “vulnerability” when she visited China and other Asian countries on her official State Department trip. “However, according to these officials, [the relevant people] did not – and would not – approve her exclusive reliance on a personal email”.
Through it all, Clinton tried to placate voters with assurances that she was cooperating fully with the investigators who have been looking into this matter.
“Contrary to the false theories advanced for some time now, the report notes that her use of personal email was known to officials within the Department during her tenure, and that there is no evidence of any successful breach of the Secretary’s server”, Fallon said in the statement.
It also added new detail about Clinton’s motivation for using the private server, which she has said was set up for convenience. And if they knew that she was relying significantly or exclusively on personal email, why didn’t they make this – others aware of it?
Clinton decided that those rules were for everyone else, but not for Queen Hillary.
Clinton and her allies have long argued her private email use did not put any government information at risk because her server was not vulnerable to attacks.
All of this should bear on the FBI’s email probe and whether Mrs. Clinton understood the security risks she was running.
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Bill Johnson, who was the State Department’s political adviser to the special operations section of the U.S. Pacific Command, or PACOM, in 2010 and 2011, says secret plans to eliminate the leader of a Filipino Islamist separatist group and intercept Chinese-made weapons components being smuggled into Iraq were repeatedly foiled.
