No Oversight at State Department During Clinton Tenure

This is one of those things you don't hear much about, from Fox News:

[Howard Krongard, a George W. Bush administration appointee who served as the State Department inspector general from April 2005 to January 2008] noted that during Clinton’s four-year term, from January 2009 to January 2013, there was no Senate-confirmed inspector general in place. Suggesting the Clintons show a pattern of avoiding oversight, Krongard indicated that Hillary Clinton benefited from the fact there was no IG during her term.

This makes sense, since Obama would consider oversight as less important. He is a looter after all, surrounded by his fellow Democratic Party looters.

Note that during the beginning of that period, Obama had a friendly Democratic House and Senate, and could have appointed nearly anyone to the inspector general position and gotten it through. But it was far more important for the government to take control of healthcare and to bailout Wall Street.

And one other thing:

The State Department’s former top watchdog, in an interview with Fox News, rejected Hillary Clinton’s repeated claims that her personal email use was in line with her predecessors’ – while saying he would have immediately opened an investigation if he caught wind of a secretary of state using such an account. 

Howard Krongard, a George W. Bush administration appointee who served as the State Department inspector general from April 2005 to January 2008, cited his own experience in challenging Clinton’s insistence that her practices were nothing out of the ordinary. 

“Certainly to my knowledge at least, Secretary [Condoleezza] Rice did not have a personal server. I certainly never either sent an email to one or received an email from one,” said Krongard, who served during Rice’s tenure.  

Further, he said, “I would have been stunned had I been asked to send an email to her at a personal server, private address. I would have declined to do so on security grounds and if she had sent one to me, I probably would have started an investigation.” 

"Crooked Hillary" indeed.

Then again...

Krongard resigned from the IG position in December 2007 after accusations he blocked Iraq-related investigations, charges he denied. 

I think we may need a fourth branch of government that just provides oversight to the other three branches, because clearly the checks aren't balancing.