OH come on…
you’re trying to tell me that the state department doesn’t have people who’s job it is to asses, determine, correct, and contain cyber security, without the Secretary directly telling them how to deal with those problems. Sounds like some one wrote a report to cover their ass and shift blame.
I had a E-2 try to pull this same kind of shit on me once. Tried to explain to me that the reason we had run out of white paint for the hull was because when I had given him charge of the paint locker, I didn’t tell him he was responsible for reporting the inventory… Even though that is exactly the collateral duty he was given.
There’s nothing new in this IG report so I doubt people are suddenly willing to give a thin-skinned Con Man the nuclear codes.