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“Mr. President, the State Department inspector general has released findings regarding the State Department's email practices for the last five Secretaries of State. This report makes clear that Secretary Clinton has not told the truth to the American people about her nongovernment server and email arrangement. As I have noted many times before, Secretary Clinton's nongovernment server arrangement prevented the State Department from complying with the Freedom of Information Act. She used the private server to avoid the law that requires archiving Federal records. It was designed to wall her email off from the normal treatment of a government official's email communications. The inspector general found that Secretary Clinton failed to surrender all official emails to the Department prior to leaving government service. The inspector general found that Secretary Clinton's email practices ``did not comply with the Department's policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act.'' In other words, she violated the law. The inspector general has made clear that Secretary Clinton neither sought nor received any permission to maintain her nongovernment server arrangement. Moreover, the report says that if she had, that permission would have been denied. These findings directly conflict with her many misleading public statements. Secretary Clinton said on July 7, 2015, ``Everything I did was permitted. There was no law. There was no regulation.…”