Posted on 05/28/2016 7:41:59 AM PDT by Lorianne
What’s in the IG Report
— Neither Clinton nor any of her senior staff would participate in the IG’s investigation.
— Clinton never sought approval, legal or technical, for her unprecedented private email system.
— IT staffers and others at State warned her against it.
— Had she sought approval, the State Department would not have granted it.
— Clinton violated Federal Records laws.
— Clinton did not turn over all of her work-related emails. Several (unclassified) were quoted in the IG report that had never been released.
— Clinton violated State Department policies and guidelines in place at the time, even as the State Department enforced those on the rank-and-file.
— IT staff at the State Department who raised concerns internally were falsely told the server was approved and ordered to not discuss it further.
— Clinton’s use of a non-standard email account caused many of her emails to not reach their recipients inside State, and ended up instead in Spam.
— State Department staffers not in Clinton’s inner circle aware of her private email address could not communicate with the head of their agency.
— His State Department bosses did not know their employee, Bryan Pagliano, was simultaneously working directly for Clinton maintaining her private server.
— The server came under severe enough hacker attacks that its administrator had to physically unplug it to prevent intrusions.
The question of classified material handling is, by agreement, being left by State to the FBI, and is thus not addressed in the IG report.
All of that is in the report. I’ve read the whole thing, and if you do not believe my summary, above, or wonder what specific laws and regulations are being cited, you can also read the whole thing and learn for yourself.
What Matters
— For the first time, a set of actual facts of Clinton’s actions and decisions have been laid out by an independent, government entity. The IG was appointed by Obama and his report is dispassionate. No one can realistically claim this is a hit job. Sources are cited and laws footnoted.
— Clinton did break Federal Records laws and violate State Department regulations that her organization held others to.
— Despite repeated promises of transparency and cooperation, neither Hillary nor any of her senior staff would agree to participate in the IG’s investigation. Former Sectaries of State Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright did participate fully and voluntarily in the investigation. Clinton alone did not.
— Clinton never sought approval, and ignored advice to stop what she was doing. She ran the server with no oversight. With no oversight, the only check on Clinton was Clinton herself.
— That lack of oversights extended to potential destruction of evidence. It was Clinton alone who determined which emails to turn over to the State Department as “work related” and which to delete, some 30,000. It was Clinton who made the decision to then try and wipe the server clean. It is unclear whether or not the FBI can forensically retrieve and review those 30,000 deleted emails.
Simply put, what she did wasn’t supposed to be done.
Why It Matters
— Hillary Clinton lied when she claimed her actions were approved. She lied when she said there were no regulations in place at the time of her server decisions. She lied when she said she broke no laws. She lied when she said this all was a Republican hit job. She lied when she said she would cooperate with any investigation.
— Hillary Clinton covered up her actions for four years as Secretary, then another two years after she left office, and only admitted to anything after it hit the news last year.
— Hillary Clinton asks voters to trust her with the most important job in America. She has not shown she is trustworthy.
— Hillary Clinton asks to be America’s leader. She did not lead her State Department, and she showed contempt for its rules. She did not lead by example.
— Hillary Clinton made clear by her actions that she believes rules that apply to others do not apply to her.
— Hillary Clinton by her actions succeeded in hiding all of her official emails from the Freedom of Information Act for six years in open contempt for that process and the American people.
— Hillary Clinton purposefully and willfully created a system that exempted her from the oversight applied to every other government employee.
— Hillary Clinton alone in the entire U.S. government conducted 100% of her official business on a private email server.
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What difference, at this point, does it make?
The IG report being impartial is a damning revelation.
It has been assumed that she will be protected by the Obama administration. That may not be the case.
Wouldn’t be interesting if the terrorists in Libya used information taken from Clinton’s server in their attack.
I know that it is wild speculation. There is speculation that there was another clandestine operation in Libya.
btt
Hillaryclinton, CORRUPT TO THE CORE
I’d give it an “excellent” rating ... very succinct & lays it all out. I like the last sentence, too .....
“BONUS: If Bernie Sanders will not discuss any of this publically, he does not want to be president.”
I said long ago I thought the Democrat party would ditch Hillary if it got looking too bad. I think this is the beginning of it, probably on order from Obama.
I think they finally realized what a serious liability she is and decided it’s time to throw her under the bus. I hope it’s too late.
Now I wonder who they think can step in and save the day. Biden is most likely...
It certainly won’t be Bernie, they’re regretting letting him run as a Democrat now, nobody expected him to last this long and he’s giving Hillary some serious competition, nobody expected that either.
It’s looking like the Democrat convention might be even uglier than the Republican one...the party is certainly just as divided and broken...
Judge Jeanine laid out the case of the hildebeast breaking US Title Codes, any of which are crimes punishable by imprisonment.
This nails that.
Yeah Hillary committed numerous crimes, but remember the Clinton’s are above the law so NOTHING will come of this. The rule of law is only for us serfs not the elites.
I’ll tell ya what the hell difference it makes.
This low life grifter and husband want power to further enrich themselves at the publics expense.
Lot of dead and or broke folks as a result of these two.
They do not deserve anything but serious prison time.
Bill Clinton, the cigar man and his assistant in crime.
I read earlier about triangulation
There is the FBI investigation
There is the Department of State Inspector General Report
Lastly there will be a major piece by the New York Times or the Washington Post
The triangulated hit will cause Hillary to have a stroke and resign
If not, she will be indicted
Add to that list that she was working the Clinton Crime Family Slush Fund while on STATE business! ILLEGAL!!!
WHY would Obama PROTECT her, other than the Clintons know where ALL the bodies are buried??? The Crooked Hillbilly Clintons will OUTSHINE the Muslim and the Mooch and will kick them to the curb and I assume the Muslim KNOWS this!!
IF she did drop out of the race, she SHOULD still go to PRISON!!! There should be no question about it!
the State Department would not have granted it...SHE WAS the State Department! Who does the boss of a department go to? Her immediate Supervisor (the Mocha Messiah) knew about it so who was to say ‘NO’?
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