Excerpt: "The State Department's independent watchdog has issued a highly
critical analysis of Hillary Clinton's email practices while running the
department, concluding that she failed to seek legal approval for her use of
a private email server and that department staff would not have given its
blessing because of the 'security risks in doing so.'"
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham-Clinton. (photo: AP)
State Department Inspector: Clinton Wasn't Cleared to Use Private Email By
Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger, The Washington Post
25 May 16
The State Department's independent watchdog has issued a highly critical
analysis of Hillary Clinton's email practices while running the department,
concluding that she failed to seek legal approval for her use of a private
email server and that department staff would not have given its blessing
because of the "security risks in doing so."
The inspector general, in a long awaited review obtained Wednesday by The
Washington Post in advance of its publication, found that Clinton's use of
private email for public business was "not an appropriate method" of
preserving documents and that her practices failed to comply with department
policies meant to ensure that federal record laws are followed.
The report says Clinton, who is the Democratic presidential front-runner,
should have printed and saved her emails during her four years in office or
surrendered her work-related correspondence immediately upon stepping down
in February 2013. Instead, Clinton provided those records in December 2014,
nearly two years after leaving office.
The report found that a top Clinton aide was warned in 2010 that the system
may not properly preserve records but dismissed those worries, indicating
that the system passed legal muster. But the inspector general said it could
not show evidence of a review by legal counsel.
A Clinton spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The 83-page report reviews email practices by five secretaries of state and
generally concludes that record keeping has been spotty for years.
It was particularly critical of former secretary of state Colin Powell - who
has acknowledged publicly that he used a personal email account to conduct
business - concluding that he too failed to follow department policy
designed to comply with public-record laws.
Mark Toner, a State Department spokesman, said the report underscores the
need for federal agencies to adapt "decades-old record-keeping practices to
the email-dominated modern era." He said it is clear from the report that
the department could have preserved emails better under multiple secretaries
of state but said that multiple improvements have been put in place under
Secretary of State John F. Kerry to improve record retention.
The timing of the report is inconvenient for Clinton, who now faces an
intense onslaught of attacks from presumptive Republican presidential
nominee Donald Trump.
But its release - as well as the conclusion of an ongoing FBI investigation
- have also been seen for months by her allies as key milestones to finally
putting the email issue to rest. They have worked to inoculate her against
potentially critical findings, accusing the State Department's inspector
general of working in concert with congressional Republicans to harm her
presidential campaign and noting that a top inspector general official used
to work for Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa).
The inspector general has rejected allegations of bias, noting that the
scope of the review encompasses secretaries of both parties and that it was
undertaken at the direction of Clinton's Democratic successor, Kerry. The
report includes interviews with Kerry and Powell and former secretaries
Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice, but it says that Clinton declined
to be interviewed. The inspector general, Steve Linick, was appointed by
President Obama and has served since 2013.
The FBI investigation into whether Clinton mishandled classified material
through her use of the private server in her home in suburban New York is
still underway. FBI Director James B. Comey has said there is no "external
deadline" for concluding that probe, but he acknowledged that there is
pressure to wrap up the matter promptly and thoroughly.
Officials have said they plan to interview Clinton about the matter soon;
she has expressed willingness to sit for such a session. They have also told
The Post that their investigation so far has found little evidence that
Clinton maliciously flouted classification rules.
About 2,000 chains of Clinton's correspondence include emails that the State
Department has since said are classified. A Washington Post analysis found
that Clinton herself wrote 104 of those notes. Others were written by about
300 other people, including longtime diplomats and top officials in the
national security community.
The new report focuses on record keeping and how Clinton and previous
secretaries of state maintained documents regarding public business. She has
said she complied with laws requiring the preservation of documents,
including emails, because she emailed other government officials at their
official accounts, knowing their emails would be retained on public servers.
But she has not explained how she intended to preserve emails sent to
private citizens, who did not use government email. Some emails have
emerged, particularly from Clinton's first months in office in 2009, when
her aides have said she was transitioning technology, that she did not
provide to the State Department.
The inspector general cited those emails in concluding that Clinton's 2014
submission of what she characterized as all of her public records was
"incomplete."
In December 2014, nearly two years after leaving office, she turned over
more than 30,000 emails she said represented all of her work-related
correspondence. She said that she also exchanged about 31,000 personal
emails during her time as secretary and that those messages have been
deleted.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham-Clinton. (photo: AP)
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State Department Inspector: Clinton Wasn't Cleared to Use Private Email By
Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger, The Washington Post
25 May 16
he State Department's independent watchdog has issued a highly critical
analysis of Hillary Clinton's email practices while running the department,
concluding that she failed to seek legal approval for her use of a private
email server and that department staff would not have given its blessing
because of the "security risks in doing so."
The inspector general, in a long awaited review obtained Wednesday by The
Washington Post in advance of its publication, found that Clinton's use of
private email for public business was "not an appropriate method" of
preserving documents and that her practices failed to comply with department
policies meant to ensure that federal record laws are followed.
The report says Clinton, who is the Democratic presidential front-runner,
should have printed and saved her emails during her four years in office or
surrendered her work-related correspondence immediately upon stepping down
in February 2013. Instead, Clinton provided those records in December 2014,
nearly two years after leaving office.
The report found that a top Clinton aide was warned in 2010 that the system
may not properly preserve records but dismissed those worries, indicating
that the system passed legal muster. But the inspector general said it could
not show evidence of a review by legal counsel.
A Clinton spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The 83-page report reviews email practices by five secretaries of state and
generally concludes that record keeping has been spotty for years.
It was particularly critical of former secretary of state Colin Powell - who
has acknowledged publicly that he used a personal email account to conduct
business - concluding that he too failed to follow department policy
designed to comply with public-record laws.
Mark Toner, a State Department spokesman, said the report underscores the
need for federal agencies to adapt "decades-old record-keeping practices to
the email-dominated modern era." He said it is clear from the report that
the department could have preserved emails better under multiple secretaries
of state but said that multiple improvements have been put in place under
Secretary of State John F. Kerry to improve record retention.
The timing of the report is inconvenient for Clinton, who now faces an
intense onslaught of attacks from presumptive Republican presidential
nominee Donald Trump.
But its release - as well as the conclusion of an ongoing FBI investigation
- have also been seen for months by her allies as key milestones to finally
putting the email issue to rest. They have worked to inoculate her against
potentially critical findings, accusing the State Department's inspector
general of working in concert with congressional Republicans to harm her
presidential campaign and noting that a top inspector general official used
to work for Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa).
The inspector general has rejected allegations of bias, noting that the
scope of the review encompasses secretaries of both parties and that it was
undertaken at the direction of Clinton's Democratic successor, Kerry. The
report includes interviews with Kerry and Powell and former secretaries
Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice, but it says that Clinton declined
to be interviewed. The inspector general, Steve Linick, was appointed by
President Obama and has served since 2013.
The FBI investigation into whether Clinton mishandled classified material
through her use of the private server in her home in suburban New York is
still underway. FBI Director James B. Comey has said there is no "external
deadline" for concluding that probe, but he acknowledged that there is
pressure to wrap up the matter promptly and thoroughly.
Officials have said they plan to interview Clinton about the matter soon;
she has expressed willingness to sit for such a session. They have also told
The Post that their investigation so far has found little evidence that
Clinton maliciously flouted classification rules.
About 2,000 chains of Clinton's correspondence include emails that the State
Department has since said are classified. A Washington Post analysis found
that Clinton herself wrote 104 of those notes. Others were written by about
300 other people, including longtime diplomats and top officials in the
national security community.
The new report focuses on record keeping and how Clinton and previous
secretaries of state maintained documents regarding public business. She has
said she complied with laws requiring the preservation of documents,
including emails, because she emailed other government officials at their
official accounts, knowing their emails would be retained on public servers.
But she has not explained how she intended to preserve emails sent to
private citizens, who did not use government email. Some emails have
emerged, particularly from Clinton's first months in office in 2009, when
her aides have said she was transitioning technology, that she did not
provide to the State Department.
The inspector general cited those emails in concluding that Clinton's 2014
submission of what she characterized as all of her public records was
"incomplete."
In December 2014, nearly two years after leaving office, she turned over
more than 30,000 emails she said represented all of her work-related
correspondence. She said that she also exchanged about 31,000 personal
emails during her time as secretary and that those messages have been
deleted.
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