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State Department Audit Finds Hillary Clinton Broke Federal Rules With Illegal Email Server
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton violated federal records rules through her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, a State Department audit has concluded
"At
a minimum, Secretary Clinton should have surrendered all emails dealing
with Department issues before leaving government service," says an audit by the State Department Inspector General, obtained by NBC News.
"Because
she did not do so, she did not comply with the State Department's
policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records
Act."
The
audit found that the non-compliance over personal email went beyond
Clinton, and that former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Republican,
also failed to preserve government-related emails when he was secretary
of state.
The
State Department asked Powell to try to receive relevant emails from
his internet provider, but "as of May 2016 the Department has not
received a response" from Powell, the audit said.
Indeed,
the report's conclusion cites "longstanding, systemic weaknesses" in
electronic record-keeping "that go well beyond the tenure of any one
secretary of state." But the findings on Clinton are sure to reverberate
through the 2016 presidential campaign, as her spokesman, Brian Fallon,
noted in a statement.
"While
political opponents of Hillary Clinton are sure to misrepresent this
report for their own partisan purposes, in reality, the Inspector
General documents just how consistent her email practices were with
those of other Secretaries and senior officials at the State Department
who also used personal email," Fallon said.
The
State Department's auditors challenge some of the fundamental
assertions Clinton has been making about why her use of personal email
for government business was not improper.
A
federal law requires the preservation of government records, and
Clinton has said that since most of her emails were sent to people on
the State Department system, she was complying.
But the audit says that "sending emails from a personal account to other employees at their Department accounts is not an appropriate method of preserving any such emails that would constitute a federal record."
Clinton has also said her use of a personal email server did not violate the rules at the time.
The
audit says that none of the senior State Department officials in charge
of information security were asked to approve Clinton's email
arrangement. They would not have done so if asked, they said, according
to the audit.
The report shows that Clinton was concerned about her personal emails messages becoming part of the public record
In
November 2010, Clinton aide Huma Abedin said they should "talk about
putting you on state email," because her private server emails were not
always being received. Clinton replied: "Let's get separate address or
device but I don't want any risk of the personal being accessible."
The
audit says that some State Department officials tried to offer
different solutions to Clinton's email situation but were rebuffed.
At one point, an official suggested Clinton carry two devices, but that suggestion was rejected.
Two
information technology officials who support the secretary raised
concerns about Clinton's use of personal email in late 2010 and raised
the issue with their boss, the audit says. The director of the unit that
supported the secretary's information technology "instructed the staff never to speak of the Secretary's personal email system again."
The Clinton campaign says the report showed that problems with State's electronic record-keeping were longstanding.
"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.
"We
agree that steps ought to be taken to ensure the government can better
maintain official records, and if she were still at the State
Department, Secretary Clinton would embrace and implement any
recommendations, including those in this report, to help do that. But as
this report makes clear, 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."
In
a statement, the State Department said the agency "could have done a
better job preserving emails and records of Secretaries of State and
their senior staff going back several administrations."
"We
also acknowledge the report's finding that compliance with email and
records management guidance has been inconsistent across several
administrations," it said. source
Geoffrey Grider | May 25, 2016 at 3:03 pm URL: http://wp.me/p1kFP6-bkb
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