Re: So it begins...
In looking at the text of the IG report I found no statement that laws were not broken. There were many statements, however, that State Department instructions ('rules") were not followed, and in particular, that they were not followed in respect of Secretary Clinton's use of a personally owned email system that was not certified and accredited. That fairly clearly violated the Federal Information Security Management Act (2002) as well as the applicable Federal Information Processing Standards written to implement it, both of which dominate any State Department instructions.
The departmental rules in State Department Foreign Affairs Manual derive from the laws that govern the executive branch in general and the State Department in particular. When the Department or its employees violate such a regulation they very often have violated an underlying law as well. That probably is for the Attorney General to say, rather than the Department IG, and may explain lack of specific statements about violation of laws.
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