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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFactCheck.org: "The State Dept IG contradicts several of Clinton's long-standing talking points"
Summary
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that her decision to use a private email account and server for government business while secretary of state was allowed by the State Department. She has said my predecessors did the same thing, and insisted she fully complied with every rule in preserving her work emails.
We have taken issue with those claims, and now so does the State Department Office of Inspector General, which issued a report on May 26 that contradicts several of Clintons claims about her emails:
* The IG report cited department policies dating to 2005 that require normal day-to-day operations to be conducted on government servers, contrary to Clintons claim that her server was allowed. It also said she had an obligation to discuss her email system with cybersecurity officials, but theres no evidence that she sought or received their approval.
* The IG report said Clinton should have turned over her emails before she left office not 21 months after she left. [S]he did not comply with the Departments policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act, the report said.
* Clinton has said her emails were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department because she emailed department officials at their government accounts. The IG report said that is not an appropriate method of preserving any such emails that would constitute a Federal record.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that her decision to use a private email account and server for government business while secretary of state was allowed by the State Department. She has said my predecessors did the same thing, and insisted she fully complied with every rule in preserving her work emails.
We have taken issue with those claims, and now so does the State Department Office of Inspector General, which issued a report on May 26 that contradicts several of Clintons claims about her emails:
* The IG report cited department policies dating to 2005 that require normal day-to-day operations to be conducted on government servers, contrary to Clintons claim that her server was allowed. It also said she had an obligation to discuss her email system with cybersecurity officials, but theres no evidence that she sought or received their approval.
* The IG report said Clinton should have turned over her emails before she left office not 21 months after she left. [S]he did not comply with the Departments policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act, the report said.
* Clinton has said her emails were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department because she emailed department officials at their government accounts. The IG report said that is not an appropriate method of preserving any such emails that would constitute a Federal record.
Much more: http://www.factcheck.org/2016/05/ig-report-on-clintons-emails/
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FactCheck.org: "The State Dept IG contradicts several of Clinton's long-standing talking points" (Original Post)
JonLeibowitz
May 2016
OP
Jitter65
(3,089 posts)1. Check again State Dept. nt
SMC22307
(8,085 posts)2. This was buried...
imagine that.
JonLeibowitz
(6,282 posts)7. I am shocked!
vintx
(1,748 posts)11. Shocked, I say!
Bread and Circus
(9,454 posts)3. In other words, Clinton lies repeatedly.
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)4. Can you imagine that? Why I am shocked and amazed!
Yurovsky
(2,064 posts)8. Say it isn't so!
seems like the public polling on her trustworthiness is pretty accurate...
MaeScott
(878 posts)5. Rabbit hole gets deeper...lol
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)6. K&R.
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)9. OMG, you mean she's been lying?

whoda thunk?
Autumn
(43,940 posts)10. "contradicts several of Clinton's long-standing talking points" In other words, she lied
floppyboo
(2,461 posts)12. Stop giving Trump links to fackcheck!
I'm just about done here. Scared to post anything for fear of another hide for being a secret Trump troll.
Just about done... nah!!!
Go Bernie!