Hillary fired Ambassador in 2012 for using private emails
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 11:06 am
Clinton State Department Ousted Ambassador Using Private Email. In 2012, U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration abruptly stepped down from his post. According to a Foreign Policy report by Josh Rogin (now a reporter for Bloomberg), Gration was the subject of a whithering evaluation from the State Department:Hillary's response will of course will be, I supervised thousands of employees around the world, I logged over a million miles in 2012, how am I expected to know why one of my Ambassadors are fired, at this point what difference does it make?
The impending release of a highly critical report by the State Department’s Inspector General’s office prompted the sudden resignation Friday of U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration, according to administration and congressional sources.
During an inspection, the Ambassador was found to be using commercial email for official government business. The State Department responded. "The Department email system provides automatic security, record-keeping, and backup functions as required. The Ambassador’s requirements for use of commercial email in the office and his flouting of direct instructions to adhere to Department policy have placed the information management staff in a conundrum: balancing the desire to be responsive to their mission leader and the need to adhere to Department regulations and government information security standards. State Department policy is very clear, using private email outside the State Department's secure system is completely unacceptable."