All these investigations do is polish Hillary's apple.

She sure has my vote!!! She's a very strong person IMO!

the potential of being more dangerous than the many probes Hillary has already endured.

This really isn't about Hillary. It's about the power struggles that go on between State, the FBI and other fed agencies, all of which have their own fiefdoms, procedures and policies to defend. State has not looked good throughout emailgate, and they could simply be looking to save face and have THEIR say in the public arena concerning these matters.

Hell, the whole purpose could be to point out that the R Congress has denied funding to State many times over, and that none of these faux-issues would be issus at all had Congress funded State at the level it needed to be funded to have the security they need in these times.

IT systems. You make some good points!

The State Department has the most out of date and ancient infrastructure in the government due to the lack of funding to secure their internal networks.

When I conducted my last survey of the State Department over two years ago, those who were outside the State Department internal network (i.e.anybody who traveled at all) could not access their email. Period full stop.

Hillary Clinton's email server network was more secure than anything the State Department had ever presented in the entire history of that Bureau's history. She is to be commended for the effort and personal expenditure she went to in order to provide herself with the very basic service she needed in order to do her job during her time as Secretary of State.

Yes, that is correct, PERSONAL EXPENDITURE.

She provided herself with better infrastructure than the State Department was capabale of providing during her tenure and she paid for nearly all of it out of pocket.

Needless to say, this is the absolute most information I can provide in a private context without violating the law.

a backward IT security infrastructure in some gov. systems from what I understand.

for not funding the needed updates and needed improvements in the .gov sys

Hope someone can answer this, as I have no idea.

Are cabinet level budgets funded by Congress broken down that specific by line item? like IT upgrades for example.

Or is the department as a whole budgeted a certain amount of $$ which is spent to their discretion based on their priorities?

If the system in place in 2009 was less secure than having a private server, has it been upgraded since then, or will the next SOS also need to have a private server outside the system?

buy what you need out of your own pocket <sarcasm>

In these times, there are basics we need, and Internet security is one of them. I read in different places that even though Hillary's server was off-site, her email was still more secure than what the State Dept. had. I read that Powell, Rice and Kerry also resorted to alternate ways to send and receive email. Government is more than buying guns and making war. If conservatives do not like government, I wish to hell they'd stay out of it.

James Comey said today that a gmail account would be more secure than Hillary's private server.

Even if they find some "mishandling" someone might get a slap on the wrist.

If we yearn for a reckless, bull-headed cheater in the oval office, this shouldn't concern us at all.

handling of emails by all of congress. I bet there are some real F-ups there! Meanwhile, we have crises all over the place and this is the main focus anymore.

He's concerned about the DEMOCRAT Party.

I will do everything in my power to be sure Trump is not elected and to have Democrats take the Senate and House back.

Back in April they stopped as to not interfere with FBI investigation. Everyone involved knew it would reopen once FBI was done.

That's the lesser goal of the Republicans now that she won't be charged.
Comey called her "extremely careless" and "negligent."
Others found to have been extremely careless and negligent have lost their security clearance.
What will a State Department investigation find? If it agrees with Comey, who will take the fall?
I think it's unlikely it will be Hillary, but don't expect Republicans to let this go. It's all they have.

That the entire agency works this way. They are forced to.

They can't single any one person out without exposing every one, including those in the inspectors office.

the GOP rant and thump their chest abt this, the higher HRC's numbers go.... even 20% of GOPers no longer believe what their own party is claiming!

For months, republican Benghazi committee chairman Trey Gowdy has been playing up the fact that Hillary Clinton used her own private email server for conducting official government business. That’s set off a firestorm which has forced four separate government agencies to step in and defend her against a wide range of false accusations. Now it turns out Gowdy himself has been running his own congressional email through a private server of his own.

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It turns out Trey Gowdy has been running his info@treygowdy.com email address through a private email server, despite giving that address out as an official point of contact and almost certainly receiving official government correspondence through that address. Additionally his republican colleague Jason Chaffetz has been caught giving out a Gmail address for official correspondence, which is also run through a private email server. One wonders if we’ll see an eighteen month investigation into their email as well.

I agree this is all insider stuff--back-room struggles made to keep Pols on the status quo.

JMO.

But I'm not alone.

They were sloppy and certainly didn't do Clinton any favors with their actions and/or recommendations.

hasn't been paying attention.

First off it means 'secret' to Americans. This stuff is usually common knowledge.

Keep in mind that they over classify everything. A guest list of the local PTA luncheon could be classified. Broad brush classifying.

Let's give Hillary some credit in knowing she is on an open line and wouldn't be talking about real important stuff!

Go Fish!

Just pay us back for wasting OUR money while doing NOTHING!

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the firm I work for has fired people for precisely what she did and getting fired around here really takes some effort.