2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWaPo Editorial: Clinton’s inexcusable, willful disregard for the rules
The more we learn, the worse it looks.
Deny all you want. This is now serious. I don't know what it portends, but the profile of this debacle was just significantly raised.
And no, the Post is not pro-Trump. Heaven knows, it's not pro-Bernie.
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By Editorial Board May 25 at 7:13 PM
HILLARY CLINTONS use of a private email server while secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 has been justifiably criticized as an error of judgment. What the new report from the State Department inspector general makes clear is that it also was not a casual oversight. Ms. Clinton had plenty of warnings to use official government communications methods, so as to make sure that her records were properly preserved and to minimize cybersecurity risks. She ignored them.
The 83-page report declares that beginning in late 2005 and continuing through 2011, the department revised its Foreign Affairs Manual and issued various memoranda specifically discussing the obligation to use Department systems in most circumstances and identifying the risks of not doing so. Ms. Clinton didnt.
During her tenure, State Department employees were told that they were expected to use approved, secure methods to transmit information that was sensitive but unclassified, or SBU. If they needed to transmit SBU information outside the departments network, they were told to ask information specialists for help. The report said there is no evidence that Ms. Clinton ever asked, despite the fact that emails exchanged on her personal account regularly contained information that was marked as SBU. On June 28, 2011, a cable was sent to all diplomatic and consular posts over her signature warning that personal email accounts could be compromised and officials should avoid conducting official Department business from your personal e-mail accounts. At the time, Ms. Clinton was doing exactly that.
On March 11, 2011, an assistant secretary sent a memorandum on cybersecurity threats directly to Ms. Clinton, noting a dramatic increase in attempts to compromise personal email accounts of senior department officials, possibly for spying or blackmail. That didnt stop Ms. Clinton either. There were also numerous notifications that some emails (but not all) are considered federal records under the law and that she should print and file those in her office and, before leaving office, surrender all emails dealing with department business. She did so only about two years later, in December 2014.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/clintons-inexcusable-willful-disregard-for-the-rules/2016/05/25/0089e942-22ae-11e6-9e7f-57890b612299_story.html
bjo59
(1,166 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)bjo59
(1,166 posts)MFM008
(19,808 posts)I just dont.
cali
(114,904 posts)Vattel
(9,289 posts)Much bigger negatives suggest that she should not be entrusted with the powers of the chief executive and CIC: her foolish support for violent regime change in Iraq, Libya, and Syria; her unconstitutional position on war powers; her defense of killing children in Gaza; her desire for a no fly zone in Syria; her support for the Patriot Act; her support for the coup in Honduras; her support for immoral deportation of immigrants; etc.
democrank
(11,094 posts)But according to the new rules handed down by the Democratic Establishment, one must excuse and support anything and everything Hillary says and does...or you`re a Socialist Hillary Hater.
cali
(114,904 posts)Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)spin this one.