" Clinton and her top aides chose not to cooperate with the review."

[Autumn]

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The State Department inspector general concluded that Hillary Clinton did not comply with the agency’s policies on records, according to a report released to lawmakers on Wednesday that also revealed that Clinton and her top aides chose not to cooperate with the review.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/hillary-clinton-email-inspector-general-report-223553

State Dept. watchdog: Clinton violated email rules
The inspector general report is the latest headache for Clinton in the scandal over her exclusive use of private email for State business.
By RACHAEL BADE, JOSH GERSTEIN and NICK GASS 05/25/16 09:46 AM EDT Updated 05/25/16 10:01 AM EDT
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The State Department inspector general concluded that Hillary Clinton did not comply with the agency’s policies on records, according to a report released to lawmakers on Wednesday that also revealed that Clinton and her top aides chose not to cooperate with the review.
The agency on Wednesday released the long-awaited report to Capitol Hill, copy of which was obtained by POLITICO, providing just the latest turn in the headache-inducing saga that has dogged Clinton's campaign.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/APFN_US_CLINTON_EMAILS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


She and her top aides would not cooperate with the State Department review. A department that she was the head of.

[leeroysphitz]

1. Welcome to the next 4 to 8 years of prevarication, deception and non-answers. n/t

[Autumn]

3. As SOS that was her department, if she won't corporate with the review

I think it must be because she has something to hide.

[Segami]

11. Refusing to cooperate with her own former department....

...unbelievable!!

The FBEye definitely will have more to add on this.......

[lagomorph777]

36. Yeah, that's what President Trump will be doing.

Unless CA voters decide to save the Democratic Party despite itself.

[roguevalley]

46. a queen is exempt from mingling with the plebes

[Punkingal]

2. Mind-boggling.

[Matt_in_STL]

4. I am sure the Hillary supporters will be along with a very good reason any minute

Just have to wait for marching orders.

[vintx]

5. I cannot believe so many people seem not to grasp

the consequences of her nomination

[cali]

6. Her arrogance is breathtaking.

[Autumn]

7. I find her arrogance to be nauseating. The republicans are going to hit her hard on this.

[cali]

21. Undoubtedly.

[Autumn]

28. Think the pukes will pounce on this for another round of hearings?

[cali]

32. I think they don't need to bother.

[think]

26. Unfortunately this is just the opening act. The FBI's investigation of the Clinton foundation

for possible public corruption will be the main event....

[JudyM]

35. ... and undoubtedly will incorporate the State IG's finding. This removes her excuse that "this is

all just according to typical SOS practice." The report apparently sets her actions apart.

[JudyM]

13. Stunning. She is above the law, in her mind.

We can kind of understand why ... Hubby gets a BJ from an intern on Easter Sunday in the Oval Office splashed all over the news, is caught lying about it and is still lauded as a Great One. So here she is, the Unsullied Wife who was wronged and is owed that same office. Only a matter of time for her, the most powerful woman in the US. She's got reason to believe nothing can stop her, so she can do whatever she wants. This thought apparently remains as a guidepost as she pursues money laundering big donations for her campaign through the state dem structures, etc etc.

[MisterP]

44. Lewinsky and the witch hunt was where the party started defending anything so long as

it was a Dem doing it

it's like the voters suddenly had this pathological need for the pols to recognize how good and loyal we were--that the measure of how liberal you were was how hard you defended Clinton (who, after all, led the party that represented liberal values and was being attacked and persecuted by the party that was destroying all that)

that gave the neolibs all the cover they needed, and by the time enough people woke up 2007 that neoliberalism was unsupportable and unsustainable they had another one set up to ride the outrage and enforce it for another 8 years!

[JudyM]

48. Less and less subtle manipulation of us over time.

[MisterP]

49. it ALLOWED for increasing crudeness

under Bush DU could pretend that any Dem would be a net gain for the party's stated goals and a torchbearer for all the good it'd done--this was used to reconcile Kerry and Pelosi's conservative moves

with the 2008 campaign something new happened: people were saying that they didn't care what a candidate supported, as long as it was their candidate doing so

[JudyM]

50. Hmmm. Yeah, sounds about right. Now they want party unity again.

[NWCorona]

8. It should be noted that while Hillary headed the State Dept. She refused to appoint an IG.

The very person that makes sure that the rules are followed.

How convenient.

[Autumn]

12. I wasn't aware of that.

Yeah very convenient

[NWCorona]

16. One of Kerry's first moves was to appoint an IG and the audit reports from

Hillary's tenure have been devastating!

[polly7]

14. She's always had every single base covered ...... the perks of being a lawyer. nt.

[snagglepuss]

17. Wow. How can that be justified? That "tidbit" ought to be an OP as

I can't be the only who never knew that. Be interesting to see how that could be spun.

[stillwaiting]

39. I did not know that either. But, it does not surprise me. Hillary loathes transparency.

She also loathes anyone having the nerve to question her actions. Even when they are very, very far from appropriate.

How DARE we?!?!

[Skwmom]

9. Did ANYONE really need a report to figure this out (that she did not comply with record policies)?

[NWCorona]

15. Nope but having something official from the Obama/Kerry State Dept

Dampens Hillary's talking points.

"everything I did was authorized "

[Autumn]

19. Here's where I'm at. She and her aids would not corporate with the review. I understand that

managing such a huge vital department sometimes things slip through and screw ups happen. But for fucks sake, as SOS she was the head of that department and her and her aids wouldn't corporate with that review. That's is just stunning and shows what a poor choice she is, as SOS and as a democratic nominee.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Obviously she didn't listen to Bill. "work hard... and play by the rules..".

[Dem2]

18. That text doesn't appear in the linked article:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A State Department audit has faulted Hillary Clinton and previous secretaries of state for poorly managing email and other computer information and slowly responding to new cybersecurity risks.

The Associated Press obtained a copy of the report by the agency's inspector general Wednesday.

It cites "longstanding, systemic weaknesses" related to communications. These started before Clinton's appointment as secretary of state, but her failures were singled out as more serious.

The review came after revelations Clinton exclusively used a private email account and server while in office. Clinton is now the likely Democratic presidential nominee.

The 78-page report says the department and its secretaries were "slow to recognize and to manage effectively the legal requirements and cybersecurity risks associated with electronic data communications, particularly as those risks pertain to its most senior leadership."

Have a better link?

[think]

20. "State Dept. watchdog: Clinton violated email rules":

State Dept. watchdog: Clinton violated email rules

The State Department inspector general concluded that Hillary Clinton did not comply with the agency’s policies on records, according to a report released to lawmakers on Wednesday that also revealed that Clinton and her top aides chose not to cooperate with the review.

Read more:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/hillary-clinton-email-inspector-general-report-223553

[Dem2]

24. Thanks

Weird that AP removed that language from the article.

[BootinUp]

25. Interagency spitball. Big deal. nt

[Autumn]

29. Yeah go with that. All the way through the GE

[frylock]

38. Nothing to see here, folks.

Please disperse.

[bvf]

52. You got it.

https://m.

Except this shit isn't funny at all.

[jeff47]

43. No, there is only one agency involved.

You can't have interagency spitball when there is only one agency involved.

[panader0]

22. The key word there is "chose". It shows intent.

[amborin]

31. exactly!

[QC]

23. Why do you hate women?

[Autumn]

27. Baby, I'm a hater

[MisterP]

51. I believe it's "why are you AFRAID of a strong woman?!"

[QC]

54. True. I must have been

reading from the wrong talking points.

[amborin]

30. and this is just from STate!

[Octafish]

33. There was no Inspector General at State from 2009-2012

A source within the OIG contacted The Hill claiming that the office has grown increasingly partisan, accusing it of having an “anti-Clinton” bias.

The Clintons Have Not Changed: The Clintonian War on the IGs

By William K. Black
February 23, 2016 Bloomington, MN

Secretary Hillary Clinton is asking Democratic voters to believe that she has experienced a “Road to Damascus” conversion from her roots as a leader of the “New Democrats” – the Wall Street wing of the Democratic Party. When exactly this conversion occurred is never stated, but an interesting fact has emerged that demonstrates it did not occur during her service as the Secretary of State. A Wall Street Journal story provides the key facts, but none of the analysis.

Newly released emails indicate that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top staff were involved in the selection process for the State Department’s internal watchdog, a position that ultimately went unfilled throughout her four-year tenure.

The WSJ’s angle is that such involvement in the selection of the Inspector General (IG) is a threat to the IG’s vital independence. True, and also true as the story notes that Hillary was far from rare as an agency or department head in seeking to select behind the scenes the supposedly independent IGs.

The function of the IG is to “speak truth to power.” Naturally, “power” hates IGs with a purple passion. Government leaders are most likely to hate having its abuses made public by IG when the government leader is secretly acting in concert with immensely powerful private leaders for their mutual benefit at the expense of the public.

What the WSJ missed is that the Clinton’s, for decades, have sought to destroy the independence and effectiveness of the IGs precisely because of the threat that they pose of blowing the whistle on these abuses. The Obama administration, of course, is famous for its prosecutions of those who blow the whistle on such abuses. The real story is not that Hillary attempted to select a lap dog as IG – the real story is that for her entire tenure as Secretary, four years, she left unfilled the leadership position of the only institution in the State Department dedicated to maintaining integrity and preventing the abuse of public power to aid cronies. That aid, of course, comes with the clear expectation that the cronies will make the head of the State Department wealthy as soon as she or he steps down. There is no possible defense for that, and it does not happen accidentally. The primary blame goes to President Obama, who made no nomination for the position for the entire four years. It wasn’t Republican intransigence that explains this scandal.

CONTINUED...

http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2016/03/clintons-not-changed-clintonian-war-igs.html#more-10101

Gee. There must be a perfectly logical reason that Sec. Clinton left the Inspector General's post unfilled.

[Autumn]

34. Seeing as how she wouldn't cooperate with a review of the department she headed

I think we can see why that post was unfilled.

[Octafish]

37. 'Let’s get separate address or device but I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible.'

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/hillary-clinton-email-inspector-general-report-223553

The answer to "Why?," I'm sad to write, seems to me to be the reason she is going to have to stand down her campaign for President.

The private email system looks like it was intended to serve as a firewall from FOIA -- from "We the People."

[stillwaiting]

40. HOW can this not piss off EVERY Democratic voter that is not part of the financial elite

is beyond me....

I mean come on people!

[Octafish]

41. Absolutely Integrity Is For Paupers

CHOCOLATES AND NYLONS, SIR?

By David Podvin

In 1992, shortly after being named moderator of Meet The Press, Tim Russert was having lunch with a broadcast executive. The mealtime conversation was about the pros and cons of working for General Electric’s NBC subsidiary. Russert expounded on how being employed by GE had brought him to the realization that things functioned better when Republicans were in charge.

“You know, Tim, you used to be such a rabid Democrat when you worked for Pat Moynihan,” said the executive. “But now that you’ve gotten a glimpse of who’s handing out the money in this business, you’ve become quite the Jaycee. Were you wrong about everything you used to believe so strongly?”

“I still believe,” Russert said, leaning across the table. “I believe in everything I ever did. But I also know that I never would have become moderator on Meet The Press if my employers were uncomfortable with me. And, given the amount of money at stake, millions of dollars, I don’t blame them. This is business.”

The executive agreed. “But are you concerned about losing yourself? You know, selling out?”

Russert pounded the table. “Integrity is for paupers!”

CONTINUED...

http://www.makethemaccountable.com/podvin/media/020109_Russert.htm

Those who help push the bandwagon will get a reward at the finish line. The bigger the pu$h, the bigger the reward.

[DookDook]

45. "The meek shall inherit nothing." -Frank Zappa

[Amishman]

42. whatever was in those 'private' emails was more important than her official business

This is the real worry, not the classified material handling.

Was she actually making deals in exchange for donations to her foundation? The answer would be in those conveniently deleted emails, and she clearly wanted to shield them from the public eye more than anything else.

We need Bernie.

[Octafish]

53. Absolutely.

The report's highly critical findings included an account of State Department technology staff trying to internally raise concerns about the arrangement in 2010 only to be told to keep quiet by an official in Clinton's office.

-- http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-idUSKCN0YG21Z

An example of business:

From his association with a former president, a Mr. Frank G. got a great deal in Kazakhstan:

After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton

By JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
The New York Times, JAN. 31, 2008

EXCERPT...

Upon landing on the first stop of a three-country philanthropic tour, the two men were whisked off to share a sumptuous midnight banquet with Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev, whose 19-year stranglehold on the country has all but quashed political dissent.

Mr. Nazarbayev walked away from the table with a propaganda coup, after Mr. Clinton expressed enthusiastic support for the Kazakh leader’s bid to head an international organization that monitors elections and supports democracy. Mr. Clinton’s public declaration undercut both American foreign policy and sharp criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, Mr. Clinton’s wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

Within two days, corporate records show that Mr. Giustra also came up a winner when his company signed preliminary agreements giving it the right to buy into three uranium projects controlled by Kazakhstan’s state-owned uranium agency, Kazatomprom.

The monster deal stunned the mining industry, turning an unknown shell company into one of the world’s largest uranium producers in a transaction ultimately worth tens of millions of dollars to Mr. Giustra, analysts said.

SNIP...

Mr. Giustra foresaw a bull market in gold and began investing in mines in Argentina, Australia and Mexico. He turned a $20 million shell company into a powerhouse that, after a $2.4 billion merger with Goldcorp Inc., became Canada’s second-largest gold company.

CONTINUED...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html

From his association with a future president, a Mr. George W. got a great deal in Bahrain.

Harken Energy And Insider Trading

by Stephen Pizzo
Mother Jones, September / October 1992

EXCERPT...

Harken Energy was formed in l973 by two oilmen who would benefit from a successful covert effort to destabilize Australia's Labor Party government (which had attempted to shut out foreign oil exploration). A decade later, Harken was sold to a new investment group headed by New York attorney Alan G. Quasha, a partner in the firm of Quasha, Wessely & Schneider. Quasha's father, a powerful attorney in the Philippines, had been a staunch supporter of then-president Ferdinand Marcos. William Quasha had also given legal advice to two top officials of the notorious Nugan Hand Bank in Australia, a CIA operation.

After the sale of Harken Energy in 1983, Alan Quasha became a director and chairman of the board. Under Quasha, Harken suddenly absorbed Junior's struggling Spectrum 7 in 1986. The merger immediately opened a financial horn of plenty and reversed Junior's fortunes. But like his brother Jeb, Junior seemed unconcerned about the characters who were becoming his benefactors. Harken's $25 million stock offering in 1987, for example, was underwritten by a Little Rock, Arkansas, brokerage house, Stephens, Inc., which placed the Harken stock offering with the London subsidiary of Union Bank -- a bank that had surfaced in the scandal that resulted in the downfall of the Australian Labor government in 1976 and, later, in the Nugan Hand Bank scandal. (It was also Union Bank, according to congressional hearings on international money laundering, that helped the now-notorious Bank of Credit and Commerce International skirt Panamanian money-laundering laws by flying cash out of the country in private jets, and that was used by Ferdinand Marcos to stash 325 tons of Philippine gold around the world.)

SNIP...

Suddenly, in January 1990, Harken Energy became the talk of the Texas oil industry. The company with no offshore-oil-drilling experience beat out a more-established international conglomerate, Amoco, in bagging the exclusive contract to drill in a promising new offshore oil field for the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain. The deal had been arranged for Harken by two former Stephens, Inc., brokers. A company insider claims the president's son did not initiate the deal -- but feels that his presence in the firm helped with the Bahrainis. "Hell, that's why he's on the damn board," the insider says. "...You say, 'By the way, the president's son sits on our board.' You use that. There's nothing wrong with that."

Junior has told acquaintances conflicting stories about his own involvement in the deal. He first claimed that he had "recused" himself from the deal; "George said he left the room when Bahrain was being discussed 'because we can't even have the appearance of having anything to do with the government.' He was into a big rant about how unfair it was to be the president's son. He said, 'I was so scrupulous I was never in the room when it was discussed.'"

Junior alternately claimed, to reporters for the Wall Street Journal and D Magazine, that he had opposed the arrangement. But the company insider says, to the contrary, that Junior was excited about the Bahrain deal. "Like any member of the board, he was thrilled," the associate says. "His attitude was, 'Holy shit, what a great deal!'"

CONTINUED...

http://www.georgewalkerbush.net/harkenenergyandinsidertrading.htm

We need a new Amendment guaranteeing separation of money and lawmaking.

[thesquanderer]

55. Yes, she seemed to go through a lot of effort to make sure...

...that the public would not see her yoga routines or wedding planning details.

[pdsimdars]

47. Let's not go overboard on this. This is only one very small part of the whole thing

and they seemed to make this as soft as possible. I am more interested in the LAWS she broke, especially those related to espionage. . . not so much in their "rules"

Come on FBI, give us a review of your findings like the VIPS requested Obama to do.

Eyes on the prize.