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Read the full story: IJ Review

Supporters of Hillary Clinton continue to ask the equivalent of ‘What difference does it make?’ with regard to the former Secretary of State’s use of a personal email account to conduct official State Department business.

 

Meanwhile, many investigative reporters are combing through federal rules and regulations to discover what criminal charges Clinton could face for her actions.

 

Executive Order 13526 and 18 U.S.C Sec. 793(f) of the federal code make it unlawful to send of store classified information on personal email. Casey Harper at The Daily Caller delved into this angle:

 

“‘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.’”

Read the full story: The Daily Mail

Cause of Action, a conservative watchdog group, accused Clinton on Thursday of ‘selectively’ turning over her correspondence to State, which it said is ‘disingenuous and entirely inadequate.’

Clinton’s request that State make public her emails ‘does nothing to address the key questions of whether official communications were deleted or whether sensitive classified information was put at risk,’ the group’s executive director, Dan Epstein, said in a statement.

‘Americans deserve a full investigation into whether evidence exists that official communications weren’t being reported for public records, but there may be no way to know for sure,’ Epstein said.

‘This is exactly why this kind of behavior is against the law. It belies the spirit of openness and transparency in government. It keeps the public in the dark, and it raises serious national security concerns.’

Read the full story: Washington Examiner

The State Department’s inspector general has uncovered a dozen instances of illegal email usage since 2010, revealing a pattern of email abuse that emerged in the years when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.

 

“Not only did former Secretary Clinton violate record-retention policies, she failed to effectively manage her department, leading to a pattern of neglect for the law by State Department employees,” said Daniel Epstein, executive director of the Cause of Action government watchdog non-profit, which compiled the reports.

Read the full story: Washington Examiner

Critics of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email to conduct official government business are dismissing her tweet late Wednesday calling on the State Department to review the communications for release.

 

In a tweet circulated at 11:35 p.m., Clinton said: “I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review for release as soon as possible.”

 

But “if she wanted the public to see her email she would have complied with the law in the first place,” Daniel Epstein, executive director of Cause of Action, a nonprofit government transparency watchdog, told the Washington Examiner early Thursday.

Read the full story: Washington Examiner

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.