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What Might Have Motivated Hillary Clinton To Use Personal EmailBY CLAY JOHNSON -- GUEST CONTRIBUTOR at Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/03/04/3629650/hillary-clintons-private-email-tells-us-antiquated-government-technology/
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I love this story from the New York Times about Hillary Clinton using her personal email account for official Secretary of State business because it points to a serious fracture in transparencys goals, its implementations and IT policy in Government. Take this choice quote from Thomas Blanton, the Director of the National Security Archive:
Personal emails are not secure, he said. Senior officials should not be using them.
Are you serious? Lets be clear, that personal email was probably far more secure than her state.gov email account. The State Departments email system has been compromised for months. Its highly likely that its been compromised since forever: remember, during her tenure, Wikileaks released the State Departments classified communications.
A better question is: why would she use the State Departments email system to conduct official business? In fact, if its demonstrably insecure, does she not have a responsibility not to use it? Its probably the case that if Hillary Clinton was focusing solely on security, using her personal email with 2 Factor Authentication was probably way more secure than using the honeypot mess of IT that is the State Departments email servers.
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Warpy
(111,417 posts)simply because it was behind an alias and one of many hundreds of millions sent out that day, one needle in a huge haystack. No one would have paid any attention to it.
Not so the official, "secure" email account. The NSA pays particular attention to those and they have also been prone to hacking.
No email is ever really private and things live forever in cyberspace. If you want your mail to be private, you need to spend the money on a stamp--or schedule a diplomatic courier with a locked bag.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Clintonemail.com?
My gods, who could have ever thought that it might be a server for emails for the Clintons with such a super secret domain name like that?
Warpy
(111,417 posts)however, it could have been more secure.
Abq_Sarah
(2,883 posts)Is that public officials don't get to route their official emails through their own private servers. I'm sure we can all agree that it's a practice that completely destroys any efforts at transparency. They weren't her emails, they belong to us.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Why didn't she make it a top priority to FIX the State Department's email system during her tenure? Or any kind of priority at all? If it was such a wreck, surely that should have been one of the main things to focus on while she was there. Were no one else's emails at State important? Only hers needed to be handled through private servers, while it was fine for every other person's to go through the system that was so 'compromised'? If Hillary Clinton was so 'focused' on security, why wasn't she 'focused' on it for everything State did, as opposed to simply her own emails?
Isn't it the job of the person at the top to try to make sure everything below them is functioning efficiently? Or is it to 'fix' problems just for themselves, and ignore the same problems happening for everyone working under them?
BooScout
(10,406 posts)Sort of like .....why hasn't the Obama administration fixed all that's wrong with Gitmo?
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)No discretion at all to hire on IT guys, no ability to direct their current staff to work on fixing the problem?
I find that highly unlikely.
I think your analogy fails.
Rex
(65,616 posts)So does that mean that during the BFEE years, Cheney and his crew of pirates never had to worry about their emails? I can't believe the State department has no way of getting her top rate security. Unless the people are you are trying to keep out are part of the government.
awake
(3,226 posts)Like they stoped the shut down of Gitmo
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)There is nothing wrong here.
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Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)Could they be more transparent? Oh, wait...
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hunter
(38,340 posts)That's what I think, and I've been suffering email since the 'seventies.