Quote (fender @ Aug 10 2022 07:08pm)
Yes, but none of that is true. It has to be one of the sloppiest defense jobs I've ever seen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controversy#BackgroundQuote
In May 2016, the Department's Office of the Inspector General Steve A. Linick released an 83-page report about the State Department's email practices.[57][58][59] The Inspector General was unable to find evidence that Clinton had ever sought approval from the State Department staff for her use of a private email server, determining that if Clinton had sought approval, Department staff would have declined her setup because of the "security risks in doing so."[57] Aside from security risks, the report stated that "she did not comply with the Department's policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act."[60] Each of these findings contradicted what Clinton and her aides had been saying up to that point.[61][62][63] The report also stated that Clinton and her senior aides declined to speak with the investigators, while the previous four Secretaries of State did so.[57]
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A March 2, 2015 New York Times article broke the story that the Benghazi panel had discovered that Clinton exclusively used her own private email server rather than a government-issued one throughout her time as Secretary of State, and that her aides took no action to preserve emails sent or received from her personal accounts as required by law.[42][43][44]
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Dan Metcalfe, a former head of the Justice Department's Office of Information and Privacy, said this gave her even tighter control over her emails by not involving a third party such as Google and helped prevent their disclosure by Congressional subpoena. He added: "She managed successfully to insulate her official emails, categorically, from the FOIA, both during her tenure at State and long after her departure from it—perhaps forever," making it "a blatant circumvention of the FOIA by someone who unquestionably knows better."[42][52]
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Experts such as Metcalfe agree that these practices are allowed by federal law assuming that the material is not supposed to be classified
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...Blumenthal did not have a security clearance when he received material from Clinton that has since been characterized as classified by the State Department.[38][39]
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The FBI investigation found that 110 messages contained information that was classified at the time it was sent. Sixty-five of those emails were found to contain information classified as "Secret;" more than 20 contained "Top-Secret" information.
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Clinton personally wrote 104 of the 2,093 emails that were retroactively[115][116][117] found to contain information classified as "confidential."[57][118] Of the remaining emails that were classified after they were sent, Clinton aide Jake Sullivan wrote the most, at 215.[115]