An audit by the State Department’s inspector general is critical of Hillary Clinton and her predecessors for their handling of email:
The inspector general, in a long awaited review obtained Wednesday by The Washington Post in advance of its publication, found that Clinton’s use of private email for public business was “not an appropriate method” of preserving documents and that her practices failed to comply with department policies meant to ensure federal record laws are followed.
The report says she should have printed and saved her emails during her four years in office or surrendered her work-related correspondence immediately upon stepping down in February 2013. Instead, Clinton provided those records in December 2014, nearly two years after leaving office. [...]
The 86-page report reviews email practices by five secretaries of state and generally concludes that record keeping has been spotty for years.
It was particularly critical of former secretary of state Colin Powell — who has acknowledged publicly that he used his personal laptop to write emails — concluding that he too failed to follow department policy designed to comply with public-record laws.
Any time Clinton’s email is in the news, it’s a hassle for her campaign. But any time another investigation concludes—well ahead of November—without having found significant wrongdoing on her part, it’s a bomb that won’t be dropping at the last minute, and that’s got to be something of a relief for the campaign.