WAPO EdBoard:using..private server, Clinton circumventd policies desgned 2 follow federal record law

[amborin]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/281311-washington-post-editorial-board-fbi-needs-to-finish-clinton

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But there is no excuse for the way Ms. Clinton breezed through all the warnings and notifications."

By exclusively using a personal email address routed through a private server, Clinton circumvented policies designed to follow federal records laws and might have jeopardized official secrets, the Inspector General said in the report.

Clinton never requested permission to use the personal server, which was located at her New York home, and it “would not” have been approved, in part, because of “the security risks in doing so,” the watchdog agency wrote.

Additionally, Clinton “never demonstrated” to State Department security officials that her personal server or BlackBerry device “met minimum information security requirements.”

And Clinton’s decision not to use an official email department email address “is not an appropriate method” of preserving emails under the Federal Records Act, the inspector general said.

“Therefore, Secretary Clinton should have preserved any federal records she created and received on her personal account by printing and filing those records with the related files in the Office of the Secretary,” it said. “At a minimum, Secretary Clinton should have surrendered all emails dealing with Department business before leaving government service and, because she did not do so, she did not comply with the department’s policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act."

[hollysmom]

1. Well, they can't fire her now, so what can they do? `

I doubt that they want to prosecute her. what are their options.

[ibegurpard]

2. It's just a right-wing conspiracy

Cooked up by Bernie supporters in their vicious Volvos... or something...

Seriously I have no idea how this is going to play out but it's not looking good right now and I think we're already over the cliff.

[AzDar]

3. K & R

[DisgustipatedinCA]

5. Eventually we will all begin asking why it was so important to have a private server.

We may end up asking what it is that the Clinton Foundation does. We may wonder why she was getting out-of-band and forbidden intelligence from Sid Blumenthal. Was she functioning as an appointee of the President? Everything we know tells us that the President didn't know what she was doing. None of this squares with a logical and rational world...at least not with the information we have at present.

[cliffordu]

7. ^^^^THIS^^^

[amborin]

8. the private server hid all the subterfuge w/ Clinton Foundation & Blumenthal

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Oy

[BootinUp]

9. Nothing new, She already acknowledged it was not the smartest decision ...

only partisans care, get over it.

[IdaBriggs]

10. Only partisans care about FOLLOWING THE LAW?

You just read an article that says she "...circumvented policies designed to follow federal records laws..." and you really think this is a PARTISAN issue?

Do you know what the duties of the Executive Branch entail? From my third graders social studies textbook:

"The executive branch enforces laws."

And this matters because

"The President is the head of the executive branch. The executive branch carries out the law."

But you think only PARTISAN people care whether or not Hillary followed the law?