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Is it any wonder voters don’t trust Hillary Clinton? Her chronic obsession with secrecy — laid out in a new report on her email practices while secretary of state — makes them wonder what she’s trying to hide.

The report by the State Department’s inspector general last week showed she not only failed to comply with department rules but also failed to cooperate with investigators.

The Office of the Inspector General spoke with Secretary of State John Kerry and former secretaries Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice but “through her counsel, Secretary Clinton declined OIG’s request for an interview.” What’s more, eight former State Department employees, most of whom were appointed by Clinton, refused to talk.

Why the secrecy? In this case, that’s hard to say. But it does fit a Clinton pattern going back decades. When she ran the Clinton administration’s health care project in 1993, the meetings were secret. When she was under investigation for the Whitewater land deals, she resisted releasing the records. She still hasn’t released transcripts of her multimillion-dollar speeches to Wall Street bankers. This latest news about her private email server — operated out of the Clintons’ home in New York — is of a piece with the rest.