A U.S. State Department investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private...
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is not exactly a fan of Hillary Clinton. It was Grassley, for example, who launched the false accusation that then-FBI Directory James Comey had decided to exonerate Clinton before completing the FBI investigation.
On Friday, Grassley’s office released the results of its years-long investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server. The investigation concluded that classified information did, in fact, make its way onto Clinton’s unclassified server, which violated security protocols:
“The State Department investigation found that 38 current or former employees were responsible for 91 separate violations of security protocols involving Clinton’s server. Those 38 people were not identified.”
“The State Department found an additional 497 violations for which no individual was found responsible.”
“The investigation did find that Clinton’s use of a private server increased the risk of hacking.” (Although, as the FBI previously found, no actual hacking ever occurred.)
That, however, is the worst Grassley could come up with to smear Clinton.
“None of the emails at issue were marked as classified, according to the investigation.”
“The State Department probe found ‘no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information.’”
“While there were some instances of classified information being inappropriately introduced into an unclassified system in furtherance of expedience, by and large, the individuals interviewed were aware of security policies and did their best to implement them in their operations.”
In other words--just as Comey originally announced over three years ago--neither Clinton nor any of her people ever committed a crime or did anything knowingly or intentionally wrongful, and there is no reasonable basis to charge Clinton or anyone else with anything. At worst, it was “extremely careless.”
