The Obama
administration’s own State Department inspector general has exposed a variety
of lies told by Hillary Clinton in defense of her email use.
Contrary to what
she has been saying, Clinton did not have permission to use her own email
account. Agency officials “did not — and would not — approve her exclusive
reliance on a personal email account to conduct Department business, because of
the restrictions … and the security risks in doing so,” the report states.
As the
Washington Times notes, “Inspector General Steve Linick, appointed by
President Obama, said he couldn’t find any evidence that Mrs. Clinton received
approval for her odd email arrangement, and when lower-level staffers pressed
the issue, saying she was skirting open-records laws, they were ordered ‘never
to speak of the secretary’s personal email system again.'”
Clinton said she would cooperate
with any investigation, but refused to cooperate with a probe by her own State
Department.
She said what she did wasn’t
against the rules, but “Secretary Clinton should have preserved any
federal records she created and received on her personal account by printing
and filing those records,” according to the report.
She said she turned over all her
work-related emails, but “the inspector general highlighted gaps in Clinton’s
emails that suggested some official communications did not make it into the batch
of 55,000 pages of records Clinton gave the agency,” notes the
Washington Examiner.
She said her server was safe from
hackers, but as the Washington Times notes, there were several hacking
attempts, and it’s not clear if they were successful. Clinton responding to
possible hacks, revealed the true reason for her separate account, which was,
as everyone knows, to prevent anyone from seeing what she was writing.
From the Times:
In one instance in 2011, Mrs.
Clinton’s tech guru thought the server was being hacked and shut it down for a
few minutes. Months later, Mrs. Clinton feared yet another hack attack was
underway — yet never reported the incident to the department, in another breach
of department rules.
In the 2010 exchange, top
personal aide Huma Abedin suggested that it was time to look into getting an
official state.gov email address because Mrs. Clinton’s messages from her
clintonemail.com account were landing in staffers’ spam folders.
Alternatively, Ms. Abedin said,
Mrs. Clinton could release her secret address to the department so she could be
designated as a verified account, keeping her messages out of spam folders.
Mrs. Clinton refused, saying she
didn’t “want any risk of the personal being accessible.”
Mrs. Clinton has lied repeatedly
about a very important matter. I am not sure how the Obama administration is
going to justify not indicting her if the FBI recommends it.
Maybe that’s why Vice President
Biden appeared last week in Ohio to announce an important new worker overtime
rule Obama put out, instead of Obama doing it himself. They want to keep Biden
viable in case he has to replace Hillary. First posted on White
House Dossier
