A damning State Department audit made public today does not bode well for Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's odds of avoiding an FBI recommendation for indictment...
The report, obtained by The Associated Press this morning, said Clinton circumvented the policies in place that ensure adherence to federal records law.
If this is the conclusion Clinton's "pals" at the State Department have reached, we are forced to speculate it's very possible the FBI will recommend an indictment once it has concluded its investigation.
The audit cites "longstanding, systemic weaknesses" related to communications. These discrepancies started before Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, but her failures were singled out in the report as more serious...
"At a minimum, Secretary Clinton should have surrendered all emails dealing with Department business before leaving government service and, because she did not do so, she did not comply with the Department's policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act."
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The report goes on to say that Clinton produced 55,000 pages of emails to mitigate her failure to preserve the emails, but the State Department Inspector General "notes that Secretary Clinton's production [of 55,000 pages of emails] was incomplete." For instance, of the 55,000 pages Clinton emails handed over, there were no sent or received correspondences from the first few months of her tenure as secretary.
The independent audit also chastised the State Department and its secretaries for being "slow to recognize and to manage effectively the legal requirements and cybersecurity risks associated with electronic data communications, particularly as those risks pertain to its most senior leadership."
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