State Department: Hillary Clinton DID NOT COMPLY With The Federal Records Act

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The State Department Inspector General is out with the report on Hillary Clinton’s private email server. NBC News has obtained that report.

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1. Hillary, Looks like your cloth wipe didn't do such a good job

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[roguevalley]

44. I have to say, the mendacity and arrogance is overwhelming. She is either INCOMPETENT or

CRIMINAL. I don't know which one it is but they have to be assessed for ACCOUNTABILITY. No one rich skates for anyone.

[Octafish]

2. '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

Why?

[HooptieWagon]

3. If elected, a HRC impeachment is a certainty.

It will probably be the only husband/wife POTUS impeachments in US history. Quite a legacy we have to look forward to.

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15. Republicans are licking their chops.....

[HooptieWagon]

17. Democrats are loading the gun and handing it to Republicans to use.

Is their such a thing as suicide by incompetence? Does the DNC get a collective Darwin Award? There is no plan other than "it's her turn, she's entitled". No one says "stop! This is insane and stupid!".

[JudyM]

23. That would be SOS John Kerry. You have a problem with investigating wrongdoing that may have

compromised us?

[HooptieWagon]

32. I don't have a problem whatsoever with investigating wrongdoing.

The insanity is nominating the subject of the investigation for political office, while the investigation is still underway. Does that not seem like a dumb move to you?

[JudyM]

35. I agree with you. Exceedingly dumb.

[Autumn]

22. Are we all excited to see how well she handles yet even more republican hearings?

She needs to go away. Far far fucking away.

[JudyM]

36. She has already cost taxpayers a ton of $ with these investigations. And turning over 50,000

pages of *paper* records - for effect, rather than turning them over in electronic copy which would be far easier to view and far, far better for the environment.

[mooseprime]

42. esp if you consider

the difference in time and effort searching for individual names and keywords in electronic format vs. through printed pages. handing the stuff over in hard copy is an affront to the process.

[JudyM]

49. Yep. Insulting to both the team reviewing the docs and to taxpayers.

[lagomorph777]

16. Relax, there is zero chance of that.

She is unelectable in the GE. Hello President Trump.

[leveymg]

27. She won't make it to the GE. She'll be replaced at the Convention.

I'm thinking a "party unity slate" will come out, possibly Biden-Warren, although it may be Warren teamed with another established party regular. The party leadership has had since last March to put succession planning into effect, and this is the most likely outcome.

Clinton will be pardoned after the Election, and we won't hear much about her again.

[lagomorph777]

43. Well, that would "unify" the party base, both Hillary and Bernie supporters

against the Party. They would go down in flames.

[chervilant]

4. And, yet,

this is the candidate the Democratic Party wants to cram down our throats.

SMDH!

#DropOutHillary

#BernieOrBust

(She'd better pay attention to the "Bernie or Bust" movement...)

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5. Forget about her,....I say the super delegates better pay close attention

to these developments.

[merbex]

47. I agree, that's their one and only job: pay attention to developments that may

compromise or hasten the defeat of the person nominated.

Hey, SUPER DELEGATES: DO your f**king JOB!

Pay attention and read these reports, watch the depositions as they come out.

I'm serving notice:I am not asking anyone to vote for HRC if it appears she broke a law or endangered National Security of this country.

That's MY line in the sand.

[mindwalker_i]

6. But Trump is bad!

And stuff.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. It's called a prima facie case: clear on the basis of known facts.

Hillary Rodham Clinton has committed a felony. That is apparent from the facts and in the plain-language of the federal statute that prohibits "Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information", 18 U.S. Code § 793(e) and (f). This offense carries a potential penalty of ten years imprisonment.

It's up to prosecutorial discretion by the US Attorney as to what charges may be filed and when. Nonetheless, Mrs. Clinton is clearly chargeable for violation of federal law. As of right now, the matter is under FBI investigation. This isn't just about violation of Departmental policy.

Secretary Clinton was trained in handling of classified materials, and acknowledges that she understood them. By transmitting and receiving email correspondence that contained information gleaned from foreign government sources on an unauthorized, insecure system, she violated the law. This was not something she did unwittingly, and that the foreign government sourced material was not stamped classified is irrelevant.

[HooptieWagon]

20. True. The State Dept investigation is just an internal review.

It alone looks bad, but carries no threat of criminal prosecution. However, the OIG report is just a small portion of the evidence the FBI has. They have server forensics, interviews with witnesses the OIG didn't have, and possibly wiretap and othe electronic evidence. If the Indpector Generals report looks bad, the FBI's will be much worse.

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25. But didn't Bill Clinton

 dismiss the FBI’s involvement, and called the entire episode “a game” concocted by Hillary’s opponents?


Buckle up....smells like something big is about to pop out sooner rather later

[highprincipleswork]

34. Thank you. Clear and to the point.

[icecreamfan]

8. Haven't we known she violated FOIA since this story broke?

I'm sure she has nothing but contempt for open government records laws, and that isn't a good thing.

[TheSarcastinator]

9. "If the President does it, it isn't illegal."

Hillary is Nixon redux.

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10. Too bad for her she's not the president.....

[ram2008]

11. She will not be able to govern if elected

4 years will be wasted.

[Tarc]

12. *CLAP*CLAP*CLAP*CLAP*CLAP*CLAP*CLAP*CLAP*CLAP*

[NWCorona]

13. This report is just another in a long line of OIG audits that have been devastating to Hillary's

tenure as SoS. Like the time that she lost $6 billion or the report that said while Hillary had a sizable budget to increase cybersecurity and update the IT department she spent zero of that and as a result the state department IT infrastructure was rated among the worst in government.

[MariaThinks]

14. 'and pevious SOS'

[Autumn]

18. By Clinton's tenure the departments guidelines were considerably more detailed

and sophisticated than under the pevious SOS' and she still didn't bother to comply with that guidance.

[MariaThinks]

33. of course they were

sarcasm off

[Autumn]

39. It's in the report you read

[jmg257]

46. Indeed they were...

"Secretary Clinton: By Secretary Clinton’s tenure, the Department’s guidance was considerably
more detailed and more sophisticated. Beginning in late 2005 and continuing through 2011, the
Department revised the FAM and issued various memoranda specifically discussing the
obligation to use Department systems in most circumstances and identifying the risks of not
doing so. Secretary Clinton’s cybersecurity practices accordingly must be evaluated in light of
these more comprehensive directives."

[catnhatnh]

19. And so we edge ever closer...

to President Cuban......

[Sheepshank]

21. Portions of the report that are MIA in so many of these DU post are summed up:

No formal, consistent, modern protocol in place when Hillary was SoS, and making up the rule as they go along, creating new and applicable rules after Hillary leaves her post as SoS, and a verbal indictment of email habits in hindsight.

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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/state-dept-inspector-general-report-sharply-criticizes-clintons-email-practices/2016/05/25/fc6f8ebc-2275-11e6-aa84-42391ba52c91_story.html

[Trust Buster]

28. That's the part that the Hillary haters choose to ignore. The government was not and still is not

prepared for the digital age.

[timmymoff]

29. Yup it's again someone elses fault?

[Trust Buster]

31. A systematic problem is not just one person's fault, political hatred aside.

[timmymoff]

50. seems her life is filled with systematic problems, because everything is someone else's

fault, no accountability. Iraq war vote, dubya tricked her. all the problems of the 90s . vast right wing conspiracy. falling numbers now, Bernie not her record. Someone else is always hurting our Goldwater girl but it's just never her fault, ever. FBI investigation, right wing, more excuses than results.

[beac]

48. Amazing that this defense of her is basically

"How could she ever have known her employer would want to preserve her work product?" That's an excuse that's barely plausible for someone leaving an entry-level position at some tiny company.

[seabeyond]

24. Nor did other SOS until Kerry.

[Trust Buster]

26. The report also criticized the systematic problems involving government emails.

She will still beat Trump despite the efforts by some on DU to help Trump.

[Avalux]

41. True, there are inconsistencies and problems within the department.

However - for the written policies and procedures effectively in place during her tenure, Clinton violated them.

Can't explain that away by pointing to SD internal issues or the actions of past SoSs.

[amborin]

30. K&R

[Waiting For Everyman]

37. This is the softball report, the most favorable she's going to get.

The State Dept. has been weakly covering up for her where it could do so without sticking its neck out too far.

[GreenPartyVoter]

38. Very good point!

[me b zola]

40. This is why the intense pressure to get Bernie to drop-out.

If Hillary is going to be replaced the establishment wants one of their own as the nominee.

[pdsimdars]

45. Weak sauce. This is only a small part of it . . .just about preserving her email for FOIA.

I didn't hear anything about National Security breach.
Didn't even mention breaking laws.
Seemed to somehow make it equivalent to Powell and Rice. When it has almost NOTHING to do with that.
If this is all that IG came up with, he's not telling the whole story. Maybe that's the only part they deal with, but this is weak sauce.