Since the first news broke about Hillary Clinton’s private email server and the sending of classified documents by an insecure system broke last year, the Clinton camp has had a number of standard responses. All, however, revolved around the notion that she broke new rules or laws. But after the release of the State Department Inspector General’s report, it will no longer be possible for Hillary’s apologists to claim that is the case. The report is clear that she violated the Federal Records Act and acted as if she were a law unto herself by acting without approval and exposed information to the possibility of being hacked. She and her courtiers at State dismissed all concerns about her actions and made it clear that employees who had concerns about this should keep quiet about them. She did things that, if some other State Department employee had done, would have resulted in disciplinary procedures, and that is exactly what happened to a U.S. ambassador that behaved in this manner. Perhaps even most shocking is that she and her staff didn’t cooperate with the IG.

While the question of whether she violated the rules has been resolved, that still leaves the ongoing FBI investigation into whether Clinton broke the law when she transmitted many highly classified messages on this insecure rule-breaking server. Though I remain highly skeptical that the Obama administration Department of Justice will ever allow the presumptive Democratic candidate for president to be indicted — as might well be the case if this were someone other than Hillary Clinton under investigation — that still leaves another important question to be resolved about this: should Americans care?