![]() ![]() However, according to these officials, DS and IRM did not-and would not-approve her exclusive reliance on a personal email account to conduct Department business, because of the restrictions in the FAM and the security risks in doing so. The State Department investigation found "no evidence that the Secretary requested or obtained guidance or approval to conduct official business via a personal email account on her private server," the 78-page report says, noting that "normal day-to-day operations should be conducted on an authorized Automated Information System (AIS), which has the proper level of security control to … ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the resident information."Īccording to the current CIO and Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security, Secretary Clinton had an obligation to discuss using her personal email account to conduct official business with their offices, who in turn would have attempted to provide her with approved and secured means that met her business needs. But her lawyer, David Kendall, told the committee that Clinton aides had changed the server's settings so that only emails she sent and received in the previous 60 days would be saved.ĭemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton poses for a picture while meeting people at Mapps Coffee in Minneapolis, Minnesota March 1, 2016. ![]() In March 2015, she first admitted to exclusively using a private email account to send and receive work-related emails while she served as secretary of state. The controversy compelled her to hand over roughly 30,000 work-related emails to the State Department, which have been released in batches since last year.īut she deleted about 30,000 additional emails from her server that she says were "personal" in nature before handing it over to the FBI in August, five months after handing over individual emails to the State Department.Īround the time she handed over the server, a House committee requested access to it to ensure that she had not deleted any work-related emails. "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," the report reads.Ĭlinton's email scandal has dogged the 2016 Democratic presidential frontrunner for more than a year. The State Department singled out Clinton's failures as "more serious," however, according to the Associated Press. The report cites "longstanding, systemic weaknesses" related to communications that precede Clinton's appointment as secretary of state. The State Department faulted Clinton and previous secretaries of state for poorly managing email and other computer information and for slowly responding to new cybersecurity risks. Hillary Clinton "did not comply" with State Department policies when she chose to use a personal email account to conduct government business, according to an inspector general's report released Wednesday. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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