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State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server (computerworld.com)
dcblogs writes this report from Computerworld: Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's decision to use a private email server ran afoul of the government's IT security and record retention requirements, according to a report by the department's inspector general released today. This use of a private email server did not go unnoticed within the Department of State's IT department. Two IT staff members who raised concerns about Clinton's use of a private server were told not to speak of it. Clinton was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 and during that period she used a private email server in her New York home. This report by the Department of State's Inspector General about Clinton's use of a private server makes clear that rules and regulations were not followed. It says that Clinton would not have received approval for this server had she sought it. According to the current CIO, the report said, "Secretary Clinton had an obligation to discuss using her personal email account to conduct official business with their offices, who in turn would have attempted to provide her with approved and secured means that met her business needs." However, the report notes, according to these officials, The Bureau of Diplomatic Security and IRM (Bureau of Information Resource Management) "did not -- and would not -- approve her exclusive reliance on a personal email account to conduct Department business, because of the restrictions in the FAM [Foreign Affairs Manual] and the security risks in doing so."
Regrettably, there was sensitive and restricted information in the email on Hill's server. That has be reported by numerous news outlet quoting the Feds who released the reports. What non-Federal Government people don't realize is that specific pieces of information go into a restricted status under one Political Party having the POTUS and the same pieces of information go out of restricted status under the other Political Party having the POTUS. Fed employees and contractors know NOT to move/release/share anything because of this practice. (In fact, after Snowden's files were publicly released, DOE employees and contractors were told NOT to go and look at them because they [we] didn't have the proper clearance or the "need to know". The threat was loss of job and imprisonment.) It is quite unbelievable that Hill was not trained on this practice since she was an originator of restricted information.