WASHINGTON (AP) — A State Department audit has faulted Hillary Clinton and previous secretaries of state for poorly managing email and other computer information and slowly responding to new cybersecurity risks.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the report by the agency’s inspector general Wednesday.
It cites “longstanding, systemic weaknesses” related to communications. These started before Clinton’s appointment as secretary of state, but her failures were singled out as more serious.
The review came after revelations Clinton exclusively used a private email account and server while in office. Clinton is now the likely Democratic presidential nominee.
The 78-page report says the department and its secretaries were “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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OH come on…
you’re trying to tell me that the state department doesn’t have people who’s job it is to asses, determine, correct, and contain cyber security, without the Secretary directly telling them how to deal with those problems. Sounds like some one wrote a report to cover their ass and shift blame.
I had a E-2 try to pull this same kind of shit on me once. Tried to explain to me that the reason we had run out of white paint for the hull was because when I had given him charge of the paint locker, I didn’t tell him he was responsible for reporting the inventory… Even though that is exactly the collateral duty he was given.
There’s nothing new in this IG report so I doubt people are suddenly willing to give a thin-skinned Con Man the nuclear codes.