2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWAPO ED: Clinton’s inexcusable, willful disregard for the rules
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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/clintons-inexcusable-willful-disregard-for-the-rules/2016/05/25/0089e942-22ae-11e6-9e7f-57890b612299_story.html
amborin
(16,631 posts)Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)It's delivered to all the pundits, it's big.
reddread
(6,896 posts)Skink
(10,122 posts)If others did it they should be held accountable too.
Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)bigtree
(89,635 posts)...that's it.
Scolding.
thesquanderer
(12,286 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)coming. I thought MSM was building Trump up to tear him down. So it never was Trump, it was Hillary all along.
Wow, we're fucked.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)it really started to switch last week, before a plane went down.
Something got into the water at the usual watering holes.
bobbobbins01
(1,681 posts)Another op Ed by the editorial board.
elleng
(135,525 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)And it is not good for her
uponit7771
(91,355 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)would you like a drumstick?
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Could we make this Peking duck instead of goose?
Ok I'll eat goose.
reddread
(6,896 posts)with some hot mustard?