[Daily Caller] Hillary Clinton violated numerous State Department rules by using privately owned thumb drives to copy 30,000 of her official emails for her lawyer, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation.| I think she would claim that when it comes to technology, she's all thumbs... |
The State Department released 7,000 new Clinton emails Monday, including at least 125 that were treated by the department as classified. The FBI is conducting a criminal investigation into the handling of her emails, more than 400 of which have now been shown to include classified material.
In transferring her emails to private thumb drives, Clinton violated a slew of federal regulations, including those of her own State Department.
The State Department's Foreign Affairs manual prohibits the storage of classified material on any external drive, stating, "the flash drive may only be used for the transfer of unclassified files." Flash and thumb drives are treated inter-changeably by the rules.
Further, unclassified material must be on a "department owned" drive, not a personal or private sector drive.