Inspectors General are non-political watchdogs assigned to a particular agency and charged with detecting and deterring waste, fraud, abuse, and misconduct. Howard J. Krongard, the State Department's inspector general (I.G) from 2005 to 2008 suggests that, despite the agency's claim of not knowing about Ms. Clinton's use of her private email server, the department knew all along the former secretary of state was using a private server
The proof, the former I.G. told the New York Post, is that the department, "never set up an agency e-mail address for her in the first place."
“That’s a change in the standard. It tells me that this was premeditated. And this eliminates claims by the State Department that they were unaware of her private e-mail server until later,” Krongard said in an exclusive interview. “How else was she supposed to do business without e-mail?”
Krongard also found it suspicious that the State Department didn't have a permanent I.G.during the period when Hillary Clinton led the agency:
“This is a major gap. In fact, it’s without precedent,” he said. “It’s the longest period any department has gone without an IG.”
The former I.G. believes the reason he wasn't replaced was to keep things like her use of a personal emails server secret:
“It’s clear she did not want to be subject to internal investigations,” Krongard said. An e-mail audit would have easily uncovered the secret information flowing from classified government networks to the private unprotected system she set up in her New York home.
He says “the key” to the FBI’s investigation of Emailgate is determining how highly sensitive state secrets in the classified network, known as SIPRNet, ended up in Clinton’s personal e-mails.
As MRCTV reported last week, there is an FBI investigation into how the classified information got onto Ms. Clinton's server. The investigation is centering on whether the Democratic Party front-runner's aides cut and pasted it from one of two secure networks and emailed it to Ms. Clinton via the unsecured government network to the Clinton unsecured server. If proved, this could place some of Hillary's closest aids in danger of prosecution.
Still, Mr. Krongard does not believe that Hillary Clinton will ever be indicted.
He says that's because, in order to indict her, the FBI “will have to go through four loyal Democrat women” — Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell, who heads the department’s criminal division; Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates; Attorney General Loretta Lynch; and top White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.
If they surprise him and refer the case to a grand jury, the former I.G. believes that Ms. Clinton will receive nothing more than a slap on the wrist.