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A former State Department Inspector General has come forward to offer his opinion on Hillary Clinton’s State Department and Hillary’s private email service. Howard J. Krongard contends that the use of a private email server is unprecedented and had to be pre-planned since Hillary was never issued a government email account:
The Harvard-educated lawyer points out that, from Day One, Clinton was never assigned and never used a state.gov e-mail address like previous secretaries.
“That’s a change in the standard. It tells me that this was premeditated. And this eliminates claims by the State Department that they were unaware of her private e-mail server until later,” Krongard said in an exclusive interview. “How else was she supposed to do business without e-mail?”
State Department officials had claimed they were unaware that Hillary was using a private email account until it was too late. According to Krongard, thaqt has to be a blatant lie.
“It’s clear she did not want to be subject to internal investigations,” Krongard said. An e-mail audit would have easily uncovered the secret information flowing from classified government networks to the private unprotected system she set up in her New York home. …
…”The starting point of the investigation is the material going through SIPRNet. She couldn’t function without the information coming over SIPRNet,” Krongard said. “How did she get it on her home server? It can’t just jump from one system to the other. Someone had to move it, copy it. The question is who did that?”
Chief of staff, Cheryl Mills and her deputy chiefs, Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan are implicated in the scandal as the most likely to have copied material to send to Hillary. According to the New York Post, “The SIPRNet system maintains the identity of all users and their log-on and log-off times, among other activities.”
Krongard also says the State Department under Hillary had no Inspector General for the full 5 1/2 years, which is also unprecedented.
Regardless the failures to observe protocols and safeguard America’s secrets, Krongard believes there will be no indictment of Hillary:
For one, he says, any criminal referral to the Justice Department from the FBI “will have to go through four loyal Democrat women” — Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell, who heads the department’s criminal division; Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates; Attorney General Loretta Lynch; and top White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.
Even if they accept the referral, he says, the case quickly and quietly will be plea-bargained down to misdemeanors punishable by fines in a deal similar to the one Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, secured for Gen. David Petraeus. In other words, a big slap on the wrist.
Meanwhile, the Daily Caller reports that emails released on Friday contain a 2011 email from then Senator John Kerry to Hillary that contained information classified as “secret.”
The American people deserve better from those who claim to serve in the public interest. Hillary Clinton should never be President.
Nonsense. Everyone who has a desk in government has an e-mail address from the first day on the job.
Hillary doesn’t recognize that these records belong to the people and are required to be kept in the national record. She has the narcissistic view that they were “her” emails. The job was about her ambition and personal agenda rather than service to the nation.