What kind of Secretary of State loses ...
4 American lives?
$6 billion?
1 laptop?
4 cell phones?
3 tables?
30,000 emails?
I am aware of no Secretary of State who's lost any of those things, including Hillary Clinton.
Things for which responsibility falls on the President, not the Secretary of State:
- Americans who die while giving service to the nation in a foreign locale
Misrepresentation of material fact:
- $6 billion lost
A spokesman for the Office of the Inspector General told PolitiFact the alert speaks for itself, but many seemed to misinterpret what it actually said. The confusion prompted Inspector General Steve Linick to pen a clarification in the Washington Post.
"Some have concluded based on this that $6 billion is missing. The alert, however, did not draw that conclusion," he wrote. "Instead, it found that the failure to adequately maintain contract files — documents necessary to ensure the full accounting of U.S. tax dollars — ‘creates significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of internal control over the Department’s contract actions.’ "
In other words, the State Department was terrible at paperwork. The $6 billion figure refers to the total amount affected by file mismanagement. It’s akin to spending $20 on lunch and losing or not asking for a receipt. Documentation over where that $20 went was lost, but not the $20 itself.
So the State Department under Clinton, who wasn’t mentioned in the alert, may have been financially disorganized, but it didn’t "lose" $6 billion.
Things not worth discussing when lives or $916M are the points of comparison.
- 1 laptop?
- 4 cell phones?
- 3 tables?
I'm not aware that any emails were lost. I am aware that some were deleted. Where are your deleted emails? Did you lose them?