Report: Few State Department emails are being saved. Still. Today. Under Kerry.
But let's keep piling on Hillary, because that's what we do best.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/11/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-many-deleted-of-billions-from-state/
But even State Department personnel using State.gov email addresses have discretion in what emails are kept for archiving. And their compliance is at the heart of the OIG's review.
Specifically, the review cites department personnel for inconsistent use of a program called the State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolset (or SMART), which allows them to flag emails for retention within the Microsoft Outlook email application.
Six years after SMART was implemented, the OIG asserts, "Department of State employees have not received adequate training or guidance on their responsibilities for using those systems to preserve 'record emails.'"
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In interviews with department employees, the OIG noted, "many officers and employees -- not just those new to the Department -- had little idea about what makes an item of information a record."
"This general lack of understanding, which extends to records in all forms, is a major obstacle to the use of record email," the report further concludes. "OIG interviews revealed that some employees learned about record email in training about using the SMART software but were not aware of any requirement to use it."