WASHINGTON, DC – The Department of State inspector general has determined former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mishandled emails and failed to properly respond to cyber-security risks during her tenure. Clinton exclusively used a private email account and server while performing her duties as secretary of state.
The inspector general’s 78-page document faults Clinton, the State Department and several of her predecessors for being “slow to recognize and to manage effectively the legal requirements and cyber-security risks associated with electronic data communications, particularly as those risks pertain to its most senior leadership.”
Despite the report noting that it found “longstanding, systemic weaknesses” in the department, Clinton’s indiscretions were singled out as “more serious,” according to the Associated Press.
The audit shows Hillary Clinton’s private emails broke a number of federal rules and department policies while suggesting she did so to hide her communications from the public.
Clinton’s staff was also reluctant, investigators said. Her chief of staff, deputy chiefs of staff and her technology experts all refused to cooperate with the probe.
Campaigning in California, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump noted that Clinton had received “a little bad news” and railed against her “horribly bad judgment.”
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