Archives for March 2015

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have endangered national security by receiving classified documents on the private email account she used to conduct government business instead of an official State Department account.

 

“Reports in the Associated Press and the Washington Examiner reflect that Mrs. Clinton had control over her own server hosting official agency emails, which contained relevant documents responsive to congressional investigations into the terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya,” Daniel Epstein, executive director of the Cause of Action non-profit watchdog that often litigates on behalf of government transparency, told the Washington Examiner.

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A specialist there told TheDC that CREW’s request was closed in May 2013. Asked what explanation was given for the closure, the specialist could not specify. TheDC followed up with Santulli to confirm that the organization did not receive notice that the request was closed. He maintained that CREW did not receive such a notice.

 

The likelihood that the State Department found no records responsive to CREW’s request raises questions over how the State Department searched for the accounts and the records and whether Clinton or her aides were contacted.

 

As previously mentioned, the State Department has avoided answering that line of inquiry.

 

“If they requested any of Secretary Clinton’s email communications it is the obligation of the chief information officer to search Clinton’s records,” Daniel Epstein, executive director of the government watchdog Cause of Action, told TheDC. “Any records that deal with official agency business, and those would all be agency records responsive to FOIA.”

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The State Department could not definitively say that the personal email account used by Hillary Clinton to conduct state department business did not transmit classified information…

 

“By using a private email system, Secretary Clinton violated the Federal Records Act and the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Manual regarding records management, and worse, could have left classified and top secret documents vulnerable to cyber attack,” Cause of Action Executive Director Dan Epstein said in an email to reporters. “This is an egregious violation of the law, and if it were anyone else, they could be facing fines and criminal prosecution.”

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Advocates of greater transparency and accountability in the federal government blasted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday for using a private email account to conduct official business during the four years she was the nation’s chief diplomat. “The use of personal email is a strategic and intentional way for the former secretary to avoid transparency from Congress and the media,” said Daniel Epstein, executive director of Cause of Action. “Further, this act of secrecy by the former secretary raises serious questions given the numerous ethics concerns raised about Mrs. Clinton’s role as a cabinet official, as well as a political candidate.”