Clinton says IG report won’t affect her presidential bid

Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and instead included an ode to a nickname that has been applied to her by the likely Republican nominee, Donald Trump, whom the RNC is now supporting. Clinton added that she has not been interviewed as part of the ongoing FBI investigation into the email server, but said she has offered and is “looking forward to seeing this matter wrapped up”.

Clinton has defended herself from charges that she did anything unlawful.

In other words, while Hillary’s setting up her own personal email server was dumb, it was not illegal. But the report did note, rather dryly, that “the use of nondepartmental systems creates significant security risks”.

“I think what is clear from the IG is that they took a broad look at what the Department of State needs to do to make sure that they are in compliance with the relevant rules”.

But Fallon’s comparison purposefully and cynically fails to take into account the rapid sophistication of email over the years, the increasing frequency of cyber attacks and breaches and the new guidance from State Department technical staff. Clinton still faces an FBI investigation, a civil lawsuit by a conservative group and investigations led by congressional Republicans. Podesta says Clinton knows her use of the email server was a “mistake” and that she has already taken responsibility for that mistake.

The IG report released last week found Clinton did not seek permission to use her personal account for official business as secretary of state – and would not have been approved to do so had she asked.

“It is disturbing that the State Department knew it had emails like this and turned them over to the inspector general, but not to Congress”, said Iowa Sen.

The inspector general’s bottom line wasn’t good: “She did not comply with the department’s policies”.

The audit says Clinton ignored clear directives in setting up the email device. It also complicated federal archiving of her emails, in turn making it more hard to obtain them under the Freedom of Information Act.

The candidate told ABC News last week what she did was a mistake.

The report released Wednesday by State Department Inspector General Steve A. Linick plays into “this albatross narrative of untrustworthiness”, Sesno said – “this drip, drip, damage she’s got going”.

A spokesman for the Clinton campaign did not respond to emailed questions Thursday.

But the inspector general’s report shreds those claims.

The report continues that “the Department generally and the Office if Secretary in particular have been slow to recognize and to manage effectively… cybersecurity risks associated with electronic data communications, particularly as those risks pertaining to its most senior leadership”.

There are two very important differences among Clinton, Secretary of State John F. Kerry, and former secretaries Powell and Condoleezza Rice when it comes to email practices.

According to the report, two members of the State Department’s IT staff were told “never to speak of the secretary’s personal email system again” after they raised concerns about Clinton’s unconventional setup.

“I would have been stunned had I been asked to send an email to her at a personal server, private address”, he continued.

But it isn’t just Politifact coming down on Clinton’s falsehoods.