The US State Department’s Inspector General released a report Wednesday what was highly damaging to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The report found that Clinton did not receive any approval to host a private server what so ever and there were two known attempted hackings, but you may not have learned the true severity of the situation of you were watching NBC’s and ABC’s evening news programs.
NBC News tried to play it down, first by reporting it after leading the night with the riots at Donald Trump’s rallies in New Mexico and California. “An independent government report is breathing new life into the controversy that just won't go away for Hillary Clinton,” Nightly News host Lester Holt whined while leading into the story. Clinton fan Andrea Mitchell was the reporter on the case and she described the development as, “Today Hillary Clinton again dogged by her e-mail controversy.”
NBC’s report hid the severity of Clinton’s disregard for known protocol by failing to report that the server came under two known attacks. Mitchell also spun the issue like the Clinton campaign and painted the IG’s concern as that of record keeping. “Concluding, “Sending e-mails from a personal account to other employees is not an appropriate method of preserving e-mails,” Mitchell reported.
She also pointed fingers at the State Department and former Secretary Colin Powell:
The report also says that former Secretary of State Colin Powell didn’t retain his personal e-mails. But the rules were tightened under Clinton years later. And the report blames the State Department for long-standing cybersecurity failures.