The continuing questions into Hillary Clinton's use of email while Secretary of State are proving to be a major political headache, as more voters say she is not trusthworthy.
A report from the U.S. State Department's Inspector General was issued just as Donald Trump secured his position as the likely Republican nominee.
Our U.S. correspondent Priscilla Huff reports:
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The nagging scandal over why Hillary Clinton chose to use a private email server instead of an at state dot gov address during her tenure as U.S secretary of State
is highlighting American public opinion polls keep finding
Voters just don't trust the likely Democratic nominee.
Hillary Clinton - and her campaign - continue to insist,
it's the same old story that they've been open about for more than a year.
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But the report from the U.S. State Department's inspector general finds to the contrary
that U-S State Department employees were flatly told to not discuss Hillary clinton's exclusive use of a private email address
and that neither she, nor key aides, cooperated with their investigation.
It's all provided political fodder for her likely rival, Donald Trump.
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Under regulations imposed in 2009 - the year Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State
at the very least, she was supposed to print out and archive all work related emails and supply them to the documents archive when she departed.
She didn't actually do that until nearly two years later...
and there continue to be questions about whether all emails were provided...and whether any printing for archive was done while she was in office.
U.S .State Department spokesman Mark Toner says, the report makes clear that the achiving systems were inadequate and the regulations not made clear to all.
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However,
Some, such as the editorial board of the Washington Post, point out that the report
and the clinton campaign response
keeps underscoring a feeling that is not acceptable to most Americans
that the rules just don't apply to the Clintons.
And that's a major political problem for the woman who wants to make history
as the first FEMALE President of the United States.
Priscilla Huff, Washington
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