The Republican Party and Donald Trump just got some fresh campaign fodder. A State Department inspector general report released Wednesday concludes that Hillary Clinton sidestepped security by running a private e-mail server when she was Secretary of State.

The 83-page report by Inspector General Steve Linick noted that the Office of the Secretary has had "longstanding, systemic weaknesses related to electronic records." What's more, the report (PDF) concludes the office hasn't addressed these issues fast enough.

"The Department generally and the Office of the Secretary in particular have been slow to recognize and to manage effectively the legal requirements and cybersecurity risks associated with electronic data communications, particularly as those risks pertain to its most senior leadership," the report states. In particular, the document says Clinton did not request permission to create her private server and she would have been denied because of "security risks." Using private e-mail to conduct public business was "not an appropriate" move, the report added.

The report underscores the latest controversy over Clinton using a private Exchange 2010 mail server from her Chappaqua, New York residence during her tenure as Secretary of State under President Barack Obama in 2009. Her post ended in 2013.

The new document arrives on the same day as Romanian "Guccifer" pleaded guilty to unrelated hacking charges in Virginia. Guccifer previously claimed he hacked into Clinton's e-mail, but he's now facing the courts after admitting to breaking into 100 Americans' accounts, including family members of former Presidents George W. and George H.W. Bush.

"It was like an open orchid on the Internet. There were hundreds of folders," Guccifer recently told NBC News regarding Clinton's e-mail. He declined to reveal any material he allegedly obtained during the supposed hack.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation continues to investigate whether Clinton mishandled classified data by using her private server and e-mail. The inspector general report did not directly conclude that Clinton broke criminal or data preservation laws.

The inspector general said Clinton's private e-mail setup was "not an appropriate method of preserving any such e-mails that would constitute a Federal record." The report said she "did not comply with the Department’s policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act."

Clinton sent or received about 60,000 messages on a private e-mail account during her tenure as state secretary. She has maintained that she never sent any classified information using her personal e-mail, but the State Department in January said that 22 of the e-mails stored on the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee's personal mail server contain classified, "top secret" information. Another 2,000 messages contained classified data, according to the State Department.

The report noted that Clinton declined to be interviewed by inspector general investigators and that she wasn't the only state secretary to use private e-mail to conduct government business. Others included Colin Powell and John Kerry, but those two did not have a private server.

"As this report makes clear, Hillary Clinton’s use of personal e-mail was not unique, and she took steps that went much further than others to appropriately preserve and release her records," Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement.

Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus said on Twitter that "the stakes are too high to entrust the WH to someone with as much poor judgement & reckless disregard for the law as Hillary Clinton."