...we'll get right on it..later...maybe
Posted on 03/31/2015 5:01:54 PM PDT by Libloather
A State Department watchdog has begun an inquiry into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email setup, following calls from Republicans about the private email address and server used exclusively by the former secretary during her tenure at Foggy Bottom, The Hill has confirmed.
The State Department’s inspector general received a letter from the Republican National Committee only a few days after a New York Times report detailed Clinton’s exclusive use of a private server at her home.
John Phillippe, the RNC’s general counsel, urged the watchdog “to conduct an investigation into whether Secretary Clinton violated Department of State policies concerning the use of personal email addresses to conduct government business.”
He added that the inspector general should also check into whether the use of a personal email to conduct government work violates the Federal Records Act and corresponding recordkeeping regulations.
“We're reviewing it and will respond,” a spokesman for the State Department inspector general told The Hill. “Everything is thoroughly reviewed.”
Clinton acknowledged earlier this month that she used a single device and email address for both personal correspondence and government work while at the State Department's helm, saying the practice was a matter of convenience.
After leaving office, Clinton went through and separated all her work emails from personal ones and turned over the records — 55,000 printed pages — to federal administrators.
The State Department’s IG has received other requests to look into Clinton’s operations, stemming from before the revelations about her personal email setup.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent letters of his own beginning in June 2013, raising questions about the special government employee (SGE) designation given to Clinton adviser Huma Abedin.
Abedin also worked for Teneo, a corporate advisory and business intelligence firm, while serving at the State Department.
“Recent revelations about the record keeping practices at the State Department under Secretary Clinton raise questions as to whether any email communications from Secretary Clinton and Ms. Abedin to Teneo, or Teneo’s clients, were properly preserved,” Grassley wrote in a second follow-up dated March 19.
“Use of the personal account prevented regular government records retention processes from preserving her work-related emails. Moreover, according to press reports, Ms. Abedin also had an email account on Secretary Clinton’s private server,” he continued in the letters, sent to both Secretary of State John Kerry and State Department Inspector General Steve Linick.
“We will respond back to both,” the inspector general spokesman added when pressed about both letters.
During Clinton’s four-year stint, the State Department did not have a permanent inspector general and only confirmed Linick eight months after her departure. Congressional Republicans are now charging that Clinton has wiped her server clean.
Amid questions about the State Department’s record-keeping practices, Kerry has asked that the inspector general conduct an investigation of the department’s ability to archive official documents. A spokesman for Kerry said the request does not come as a result of Clinton’s email practices, according to the Washington Examiner.
Kerry “recognizes the importance of information preservation, the need for the department to be responsive to Freedom of Information Act and congressional requests for such information and the challenges presented by advances in information technology,” Linick said on Friday, according to the report.
“We are now conducting preliminary work to determine the proper scope and methodology for a review of the department's ability to preserve information and respond to information requests, among other things,” he continued.
The National Archives and Records Administration has also asked the State Department to explain how it has ensured that all of Clinton’s official communications were properly collected and stored.
the wheels of sloth grind ever so slowly
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““Everything is thoroughly reviewed.”
Yep. They’ll let us know their findings in early 2025.
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Seal of Approval ! Then claim to investigate
She printed out 50,000 emails not just as a display of the absolute maximum amount of contemptuous obstruction she could think of during a drunken binge, but also because right after printing the sever was melted, smashed and sunk in the ocean, so the electronic versions wouldn’t be available anyway.
Oh great, now THEY won’t be able to answer any questions “because an investigation is currently underway”.. This is a favorite trick of the Obamabots.
The IG report will be released in 2019.
Timing-— Let the report be released a month before the democrat convention.
Then what, a strongly-worded email perhaps?
“The Taliban is IN the building..”
Why do we even have IGs? They are slow and slaves of the Democrats. Name ONE IG report that made a difference.
None.
What a coincidence.
The “watchdog” was especially chosen to be in
one of Her Majesty’s (stolen) FBI files
AND to be acceptable to both the Moslem Brotherhood
and the Clintons.
And Republican response...
Oh hell, that wl NEVER happen.
A sooty-faced, desperate Chris Stevens was emailing her in vain for rescue:
Breathing in deep, lung-fulls of oily, billowing, black diesel smoke.
“WE ARE DYING, HERE, HILL...!”
And then he finally expired from behind his barred safe-hide among the ear-splitting din of Allah Akbars.
And then Hillary coldly snapped off her cell-phone, preferring to pretend that It Was NOT Happening...
This is like water off a duck’s back to Hillary. She knows congress has no courage and that the peer pressure of the beltway society renders any upstart rule of law ideas useless.
...we'll get right on it..later...maybe
lets not laugh....that guy went to Harvard!!
Whew! That’s a relief. I’m sure Larry, Moe, and Curly will get right to the bottom of it.
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