The report also blamed “longstanding systematic weakness” in the State Department’s email usage.
An audit conducted by the State Department Inspector General cited "longstanding, systematic weaknesses" in Hillary Clinton and the State Department's email use and their slow response to cybersecurity risks.
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The 78-page report on the cyber-activities of the State Department faulted the agency and its officials for poor use of electronic services.
The report, obtained by the Associated Press, was started before Clinton's appointment and found fault with previous secretaries of state, but focused on her failures as more serious than than those of her predecessors.
The report says the department was ''slow to recognize and to manage effectively the legal requirements and cybersecurity risks associated with electronic data communications, particularly as those risks pertain to its most senior leadership.''
About Clinton specifically, the report says, "At a minimum, Secretary Clinton should have surrendered all emails dealing with Department issues before leaving government service."
"Because she did not do so, she did not comply with the [State] Department's policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act."
The review was released following criticisms of Clinton for exclusively using a private email account and server while in office. Clinton is now the likely Democratic presidential nominee.
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