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Snowden: Clinton's Private Email Server Is a 'Problem' 344

An anonymous reader points out comments from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in a new interview with Al Jazeera about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was the U.S. Secretary of State. Snowden said, "Anyone who has the clearances that the Secretary of State has or the director of any top level agency has knows how classified information should be handled. When the unclassified systems of the United States government — which has a full time information security staff — regularly get hacked, the idea that someone keeping a private server ... is completely ridiculous." While Snowden didn't feel he had enough information to say Clinton's actions were a threat to national security, he did say that less prominent government employees would have probably been prosecuted for doing the same thing. For her part, Clinton said she used the private server out of convenience: "I was not thinking a lot when I got in. There was so much work to be done. We had so many problems around the world. I didn't really stop and think what kind of email system will there be."
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Snowden: Clinton's Private Email Server Is a 'Problem'

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  • total bullshit? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by mveloso ( 325617 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @05:29PM (#50459833)

    Clinton: "I was so busy dealing with the world's problems that instead of using my work email that I get for free I got some guy I knew to build a server for me, my associates, and my husband's foundation."

    Does anyone actually believe this line of bullshit?

    • Re:total bullshit? (Score:5, Insightful)

      by ganjadude ( 952775 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @05:32PM (#50459849) Homepage
      no but this gem, i believe

      I was not thinking a lot

      • Re:total bullshit? (Score:5, Insightful)

        by rmdingler ( 1955220 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @05:42PM (#50459911) Journal

        no but this gem, i believe

        I was not thinking a lot

        We hold some truths to be self-evident.

        I mean, FFS, the Clintons have been in positions of power for what? 36 years... (since the 1st term began as Governor of Arkansas.)

        It's clear she should have an inkling how to act in office, and yet, like so many of the political ilk, she uses her skills for evil instead of good.

      • no but this gem, i believe

        I was not thinking a lot

        I like this one:

        "I didn't really stop and think what kind of email system will there be."

        Isn't this why they have a staff to make these decisions and procedures in place as to how the "email system" should be?

        Clinton said she used the private server out of convenience

        Oh, so we should all be able to make these kinds of decisions for our own convenience. Obviously that's the most important consideration.

        • Re:total bullshit? (Score:4, Interesting)

          by Known Nutter ( 988758 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @09:09PM (#50460745)

          Isn't this why they have a staff to make these decisions and procedures in place as to how the "email system" should be?

          Yes, there are IT staff responsible for this. So, what role did those folks have in allowing classified e-mail to leave (and re-enter) the network? Or are we supposed to believe that she just appended her signature block to hillary@mysever.com and nobody noticed when Bashar al-Assad asked Clinton for her biscuit recipe? Did Clinton just use an auto-forwarder configured in an Outlook client?

          Can someone clue me in on the technical background of this? FFS, I can't send a single e-mail from my corporate network without the legal bullshit automatically appended.

          • by JWW ( 79176 )

            Why the hell else is the IT guy who set this all up for her taking the fifth??

            If he actually explains to anyone how he set up that private server and then connected it to the state department servers he is going to be going to jail for a looong time.

      • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

        by Anonymous Coward

        Well, if you're not willing to prosecute Bush for not thinking, why the zealism to get Hillary prosecuted?..

        • Re:total bullshit? (Score:5, Informative)

          by ganjadude ( 952775 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @07:31PM (#50460381) Homepage
          bush isnt in power and isnt seeking power. i hated bush (my post history shows as much) but move on

          hillary can do damage still, bush cant
        • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

          by Sarius64 ( 880298 )
          Because obviously people should be able to commit federal felonies because you dislike what a previous administration did. You're a moron.
      • "I'm stupid, not malicious."

    • Re:total bullshit? (Score:5, Informative)

      by shrikel ( 535309 ) <hlagfarj&gmail,com> on Friday September 04, 2015 @05:39PM (#50459891)
      Apparently 46.1% of Democrats do. [huffingtonpost.com] Though that's down from as high as 75% in July
    • Re:total bullshit? (Score:5, Insightful)

      by fustakrakich ( 1673220 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @05:41PM (#50459907) Journal

      Does anyone actually believe this line of bullshit?

      Unfortunately, yes... It should be obvious. Lots of people are going to vote for her regardless... There's not a lot that be done. Maybe, if we can wake up the non-voting block, it might be possible to defeat democrats and republicans. Even together they are a minority block of less than 40%.

      • A lot of people are going to vote for her because she seems to be the only Democrat that is going to have a chance of winning, and sweet Jesus, the candidates that the Republicans are putting up are terrifying. I don't even like her, but I will vote for her just to keep a Republican out of the white house. Some of those people make George Bush Jr. look like a genius.

        Sanders is interesting, but I doubt he is going to get national traction. What other realistic choice do you have?
        • I don't even like her, but I will vote for her just to keep a Republican out of the white house.

          This is why we need Instant-runoff voting [wikipedia.org]. It's the same for both sides, there's usually a third-party candidate for either side who is more practical politically, but doesn't have enough corporate sponsors to really run in the race--to stand a chance.

          • We already have something better than plurality voting, but most voters don't bother to utilize it. Instead they sit at home during the primaries and only bother to vote until they have only two choices, if they bother to vote at all.

            Since the states have their primaries on different dates, the effect is a sort of run-off voting. The first states vote, and those candidates who do poorly are ignored by voters in other states who vote on later dates, so that they can put their votes where they will make a d

        • by FlyHelicopters ( 1540845 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @10:59PM (#50460973)

          I don't even like her, but I will vote for her just to keep a Republican out of the white house.

          The irony is that you're part of the problem. The same people who will vote for any R just to keep a D out of the white house.

          Further, your vote might not even count, if you're in one of the majority of states that aren't a contest, which is even more of a crime.

          Frankly, our elections are a joke, anyone with any brains can see that. You think we really have a choice?

          • I too just stare when people are ready to elect future felons. Will Obama prosecute her? How did the smartest person in the world not know the Secretary of State (if you only knew the balance checks on this you'd cry) was not using official e-mail, at the very least. Any other person would already be in Leavenworth.
        • A lot of people are going to vote for her because she seems to be the only Democrat that is going to have a chance of winning...

          Anyone who votes for her based on that logic is so stupid that they don't deserve to live, much less vote. Hillary being the Democrat nominee is the absolute best way of guaranteeing that we end up with a Republican president.

    • Re:total bullshit? (Score:5, Interesting)

      by TWX ( 665546 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @05:43PM (#50459919)

      Does anyone actually believe this line of bullshit?

      Honestly, if she was using the e-mail address associated with that SMTP server before she become Secretary of State, yes.

      Most people don't like to use several e-mail accounts. It's a pain in the butt. If she was used to using that one and used it as she communicated with the officials that became her superiors and subordinates before becoming Secretary of State while planning the transition, then they were used to contacting here there and she was used to contacting them from there.

      Should she have switched to a government-provided e-mail account? Probably. I don't say, "absolutely," specifically because of the high profile leaks that we've seen over the last decade, such that the mail might actually have been safer on that server that no one thought to compromise than on a government one.

      As an aside, Governor Palin used private e-mail for government functions too, actually registering addresses with public mail servers (yahoo if I remember right) after becoming Governor of Alaska, and specifically citing her newly-found position as the account name. There was no prosecution over that either.

      • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

        by rmdingler ( 1955220 )
        Palin panders to that minority of the right wing that buys the Obama 'birther' and Muslim arguments; apparently the same crowd that initially encouraged Trump.

        Hillary cannot hide behind the retarded defense as believably as Sarah.

        It's much more likely she saw an advantage to being able to delete her own emails

        • Re:total bullshit? (Score:5, Insightful)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04, 2015 @06:08PM (#50460055)

          Exactly. She thought she wasn't leaving a paper trail which could lalter be used against her if she said or did something she might later regret.

        • Re: (Score:2, Informative)

          by Anonymous Coward
          You do know that Hillary Clinton was the first birther, right? Seriously.... look it up.
      • Re:total bullshit? (Score:5, Informative)

        by roccomaglio ( 520780 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @06:31PM (#50460165)
        Way to muddy the waters. Palin used her official state email. She also used a yahoo email. It is illegal to use official email for campaigning tasks. So you have to have both. Someone hacked her yahoo account and release all her emails. She did not get to decide what was released. All of her emails were released she did not get to pick which ones were released. Hillary not only picked the emails that were released she carefully wiped the server with multiple writes to prevent anyone from being able to recover emails. If she had used yahoo the FBI which is investigating her emails activity (classified TS/SCI information) could have received a copy of all her emails.
        • Hillary not only picked the emails that were released she carefully wiped the server with multiple writes

          According to her, she used a cloth.

      • As an aside, Governor Palin used private e-mail for government functions too, actually registering addresses with public mail servers (yahoo if I remember right) after becoming Governor of Alaska, and specifically citing her newly-found position as the account name. There was no prosecution over that either.

        There was prosecution over that. The son-of-a-Democrat-state-Congressman who hacked her email was convicted and IIRC, he did jail time. But there was no official business in Palin's emails. Remember, the emails at one point were in the custody of the son of an elected official from the Democratic Party. If there was anything incriminating in that email, you'd think the kid, or his father, or his father's party, would have publicized it better.

      • Most people don't like to use several e-mail accounts. It's a pain in the butt. If she was used to using that one and used it as she communicated with the officials that became her superiors and subordinates before becoming Secretary of State while planning the transition, then they were used to contacting here there and she was used to contacting them from there.

        "Pain in the butt" is not a justification of using a personal email account for official government business.

        Should she have switched to a government-provided e-mail account? Probably. I don't say, "absolutely," specifically because of the high profile leaks that we've seen over the last decade, such that the mail might actually have been safer on that server that no one thought to compromise than on a government one.

        The answer should obviously be "absolutely". The law states all official correspondence must be on a government secured system. This assures all email is kept, archived, and secured. She used a personal email system specifically to get around these safeguards, going so far as to warn her people not to use their government accounts to contact her. She knew exactly what she was doing -- keeping her

    • You can tell when she is lying. Her lips move!

    • by guises ( 2423402 )
      Sure, I do. If I were taking over as Secretary of State the particular email server which I was using would not be the first thing on my mind. I know a lot of Slashdotters think of the tech stuff first and the other stuff never, but that isn't the job she was doing. I think that's completely plausible.

      Now at some point this probably should have occurred to her IT staff, but since there was no rule against what she was doing and there had been no scandals about this previously maybe they decided it didn't
      • Re:total bullshit? (Score:5, Informative)

        by Dutch Gun ( 899105 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @07:34PM (#50460411)

        but since there was no rule against what she was doing

        No, that's the problem. There were not only rules, but there were laws against what she was doing. Had you or I broken those laws, then ignored a federal order to turn over those e-mails and wiped our e-mail server instead, we'd be sitting in an iron cage right now.

        • by slew ( 2918 )

          but since there was no rule against what she was doing

          No, that's the problem. There were not only rules, but there were laws against what she was doing. Had you or I broken those laws, then ignored a federal order to turn over those e-mails and wiped our e-mail server instead, we'd be sitting in an iron cage right now.

          With the advance of technology since the 70's, 18 1/2 minutes of tape is equivalent to about 100 servers now, so just wiping 1 server is only like a 10 seconds or so, not much to get worked up about, it could have accidentally happened when people were transcribing the emails, right? Maybe her chief of staff should blame this whole thing on a "sinister force" ;^)

        • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

          by LetterRip ( 30937 )

          No, that's the problem. There were not only rules, but there were laws against what she was doing. Had you or I broken those laws, then ignored a federal order to turn over those e-mails and wiped our e-mail server instead, we'd be sitting in an iron cage right now.

          According to the State Department she violated neither policies nor laws.

          The retention laws only required that copies of relevent emails be saved but it didn't specify how - one of the ways that was accepted was printing out the emails, another was to CC a government email address that would retain the email.

          There have been new laws, that were enacted two years after she left office that would now require usage of a government email address for correspondence or a copy of the correspondence to be on a gover

      • No, I don't remember Palin using her Yahoo account for government business.

        I remember that it is a felony to use the government email for campaigning and other non-government uses.
        I also remember scores of times in her hacked and published Yahoo mail where she said, "...this is government business, please reply to my .gov account..."

        But no, I don't remember her executing gubernatorial duties through her Yahoo account. I'm pretty sure the Democrats would have seized on such a thing, but if you have something

      • by slew ( 2918 )

        Now at some point this probably should have occurred to her IT staff, but since there was no rule against what she was doing and there had been no scandals about this previously maybe they decided it didn't matter.

        But apparently there was a scandal about using non-official email: Scott Gration (former Ambassador to Kenya). As I recall, Hillary actually ended up firing him after the office of inspector general report came out about him (I think technically he tendered his resignation right before the report came out, but that's equivalent to firing in the world of government). It's just that not using official email wasn't the only thing he was fired for, so people don't remember it too well (it was buried in the ot

        • by guises ( 2423402 )
          This is an interesting point. If we assume that cronyism is ubiquitous then we need to consider the cronies just as much as the candidate.

          In this case the cronies missed, or didn't care, that using a private server would look bad. So that's either a sign of incompetent cronies, or a sign of cronies who care more about doing their jobs than they do about playing at adversarial politics...
      • Then you're a moron, because all government employees and officials are required to sign NDAs and lifetime binding agreements not to disclose classified information. AFAIK, only the President and Vice President do not have to sign those agreements as a condition of employment. But please continue with your sophist bullshit as to why a sitting Cabinet member is above the law that existed since the 50's.
    • Re: (Score:2, Offtopic)

      by sphealey ( 2855 )

      Strangely this was not a problem for the hard Radical Right when Karl Rove created the same setup for the Bush Administration (probably a violation of the Federal Records Act for a President and his White House advisors) and then ordered the backup tapes destroyed when it was discovered (definitely a violation of multiple federal laws and regulations). IOKIYAR.

      sPh

      • i know right? next you are gonna tell me "but washington was for freedom of speech? we cant stop her!"

        bush isnt in office, and isnt running for office. bush can no longer harm us anymore

        hillary can
  • by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04, 2015 @05:34PM (#50459869)

    She doesn't understand why this is a big deal, and says "I was not thinking a lot when I got in. There was so much work to be done. We had so many problems around the world. I didn't really stop and think what kind of email system will there be." - really? She's the Secretary of State and doesn't think of security? Why would anyone want to see her as President?

    • by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04, 2015 @05:38PM (#50459887)

      We had so many problems around the world. I didn't really stop and think what kind of email system will there be.

      And she wants to have her finger on The Button (tm). Doesn't anyone else find this disturbing?

    • how can we believe that when she had it installed???
  • by rmdingler ( 1955220 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @05:35PM (#50459871) Journal
    Since Edward himself proved the secure government data itself was rather not.
    • I think Snowden is just mad that Hillary outsmarted him. He thought HCTOPSECRETSERVER01 couldn't possibly be for real.
  • Lies upon lies (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Tailhook ( 98486 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @05:43PM (#50459921)

    "I didn't really stop and think what kind of email system will there be"

    Clinton thought hard about the kind of email system there would be. It was the kind under her exclusive control; to be wiped at will. As usual, the Clinton's statements are 100% out of phase with the truth.

    Someone should have been perp walked by now.

    Gowdy is starting to subpoena people; Pagliano — one of Clinton's henchmen from the State Department — may have to publically take the 5th as soon as next Thursday. Democrats need to get use to the idea of months and years of ugly, damning headlines, just like the 90's. But don't worry; eventually Clinton will get back on the "rich+corporations pay their fair share" message and our hate filled sheeple will put her in office, because that's who we are.

  • by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @05:46PM (#50459941)

    We had so many problems around the world. I didn't really stop and think what kind of email system will there be.

    It's obvious she's trying to imply that there were lots of important issues to deal with, and she didn't want to waste time on trivialities. But she's wrong.

    The role of Secretary of State often deals with sensitive information from both our own government, governments of other nations, and opposition groups living under repressive regimes. Safeguarding that information is paramount. Being dismissive regarding the security aspects of an important communications tool that was routinely used for classified comminications is troubling because, no matter which way you try to spin it, she comes off either as ignorant or supremely arrogant (or perhaps both). Yes, there was unrest all over, Hillary - and you don't see how mishandling sensitive information about that unrest was problematic?

    I'm not looking forward to this next election. Whether you look to the left or to the right, it's clowns all the way down.

    • I think associating well organised and genuinely entertaining people with the present shower of politicians is deeply unfair...
    • Lots? How is it that most everything she would put in an email would not be classified at least confidential, if not secret?

      I mean, I would think that most every message the Secretary of State writes would be eyes-only to the people it is intended for. There's going to be a handful of "Congratulations on the birth of your Prime Minister's daughter", but most things she sends dealing with government business are going to be sensitive.

  • by steveha ( 103154 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @06:18PM (#50460101) Homepage

    Hillary Clinton is not stupid, and she's a lawyer. Before anyone is given access to classified information, my understanding is that they have to take a class in how to manage classified information and they have to sign an agreement saying they will abide by the rules governing classified information.

    Now Hillary Clinton is saying that she doesn't really understand all this confusing stuff. "Wipe the server.. you mean with a cloth?" Oh sure, Mrs. Clinton.

    About a week before the news broke about her private server, Hillary Clinton was on a talk show and she said [washingtonexaminer.com]: "So I have an iPad, a mini iPad, an iPhone and a Blackberry." Then she said that the reason she set up a private server was so she could carry a single device. Now she's saying she was so busy saving the world that she didn't have time to think about what kind of server to use... which is why she didn't just use the server provided for her to use, but took steps to set up her own server and get everyone to use it?

    I'm not buying it. The obvious reason why someone in her position would set up her own server, under her control, is to make sure that she would have control over which of her emails could be unearthed (e.g. by a Freedom of Information Act request). Notice that when she was finally forced to turn over emails, she picked and chose which emails to turn over, and then wiped the server to make sure nobody could ever get anything else.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3209380/Former-attorney-general-says-classified-email-scandal-disqualifies-Hillary-Clinton-serving-president-s-prosecuted-breaking-federal-law.html [dailymail.co.uk]

    Also, we can't be sure that her private server wasn't compromised. If her admins didn't get every security patch applied fast enough, someone could have 0wned it over the Internet; and if it wasn't guarded 24/7 someone could have gained physical access to the server in the middle of the night. Secretary of State is a high-profile job with access to a whole bunch of secrets; I think China and Russia probably both have copies of all her emails from her time as Secretary of State. (Whereas the USA only has the ones she turned over, printed on paper.)

    And we just found out about a really bad smoking gun. Hillary Clinton has claimed that no classified emails were on her server, but we have evidence that she had one or more people systematically copying messages from a secured system and sending them to Hillary's server. Details here [nationalreview.com]. The key quote:

    The subject line of the February 10, 2010, e-mail exchange is "Insulza." The exchange is about a speech, apparently by a foreign official. Perhaps the subject line refers to Jose Miguel Insulza, a Chilean politician who has been secretary general of the Organization of American States since 2005. In any event, the U.S. government's internal reporting on the speech has clearly been classified (not surprising in light of what Shannen Coffin and yours truly explained earlier: foreign government information is presumptively classified). This is clearly very irritating to Secretary Clinton, who is anxious to read the speech. In the first e-mail, Clinton curtly instructs Sullivan, "It's a public statement. Just email it." Minutes later, Sullivan responds, "Trust me, I share your exasperation. But until ops converts it to the unclassified email system, there is no physical way for me to email it. I can't even access it."

    So some group known as "ops" is going to "convert" a message from the classified message system to "the unclassified email system"? That's go-to-prison stuff right there.

    If you are a fan of Hillary Clinton... are you okay with a

    • by Obfuscant ( 592200 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @06:38PM (#50460193)

      So some group known as "ops" is going to "convert" a message from the classified message system to "the unclassified email system"? That's go-to-prison stuff right there.

      No, sanitizing classified material and releasing unclassified versions is their job. No "go to prison" there.

      'Go-to-prison' comes in when someone orders a subordinate to send them a copy classified material over an insecure communications system. It also disproves any "I didn't know" defense.

    • If you are a fan of Hillary Clinton

      Kind of weird now that you mention it, I don't know anyone who's a Hillary fan anymore. I know plenty of people who were, but aren't anymore. But I don't know anyone who would describe them as a fan.

    • Guilty, guilty, guilty. Where was the protective high quality router? Who did the backups on both Denver and Chappaqua servers (it seems there were two machines at least.) Was a RAID part of the system? Where were the local and remote backups kept? Who archived the emails? Where are the archives and backups? Who monitored daily machine and server access?

      Providing "60,000 pages of paper copies of emails." is just an excuse to hide the metadata in the emails, which is just, well, criminal.

      Come on, come o

  • Not one single mention of an email backup function has EVER been mentioned.

    No one operates a server where you know accounts are going to have critical communications and enclosures with a tape or HD backup

  • That fact that she got to delete thousands of "personal" emails without any review was an unexpected bonus, that's all.

  • China (Score:4, Insightful)

    by ebonum ( 830686 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @07:10PM (#50460291)

    We constantly blast China for hacking. I tend to think: If the data is worth stealing, US companies/gov/individuals have a duty to lock it up and protect it. I know it is very American to blame all of one's problems on someone else. If you get hacked, it is your own damn fault.
    People such as Hillary have a duty to protect sensitive information. If her email was hacked, don't blame the Chinese (Or North Koreans or Russians...). Blame her.

  • by sphealey ( 2855 ) on Friday September 04, 2015 @07:20PM (#50460325)

    = = = ... When the unclassified systems of the United States government — which has a full time information security staff — regularly get hacked, the idea that someone keeping a private server ... is completely ridiculous."= = =

    It is becoming increasingly clear that there is no such thing as a secure computer. Even if it is never connected to the Internet, but certainly if it is. Government computer/network, corporate, private, personal; they are all penetrated or will be if someone cares to do so. And someone certainly cares to do so for every high level government official in the US, UK, Russia, China, etc.

    sPh

  • Here are some key facts that many people get wrong. If you have evidence they are incorrect, feel free to provide alternative evidence.

    1. She claimed she did not knowingly send or receive classified info through her server. It's quite possible somebody ELSE sent her classified info when they should not have, and didn't label it properly. Whose "fault" that is, well, we will wait and see.

    2. The "office" server she should have been using was NOT designed for classified material either. (There was a separate s

    • 1. She claimed she did not knowingly send or receive classified info through her server. It's quite possible somebody ELSE sent her classified info when they should not have, and didn't label it properly. Whose "fault" that is, well, we will wait and see.

      She was Secretary of State. She didn't think classified stuff would be flowing through that server? Uh huh.

      2. The "office" server she should have been using was NOT designed for classified material either. (There was a separate system(s) for that.) Thus, her home server being more of a secrecy risk than the regular office server is a questionable claim.

      But when her email was subpoenaed it would have been turned over in a timely manner, without her getting to choose which emails got turned over.

      3. Messages that were deemed to have classified info were either mostly or entirely re-classified after the fact. The scope of this is still under investigation.

      See #1.

      4. Using a home server was NOT illegal at the time, as long as a copy of each work message came from/to a gov't server, which would typically be the case. (So far they have not found a non-copied work message that I know of.)

      True. This is how we know that when she cherry picked her messages to turn over, she left quite a few out. "Chelsea, meet me at Starbucks at 3" is quite different from "Hil, this dude will give me $500k for a speaking fee if you don't hold fast t

      • by Tablizer ( 95088 )

        She didn't think classified stuff would be flowing through that server? Uh huh.

        Review #2. It's NOT a home versus office server issue. If she had put classified info on the "regular" office server, it would STILL be the INcorrect action.

        But when her email was subpoenaed it would have been turned over in a timely manner

        I'm not sure what your point is here. (Actually, the office server died. It would have been gone.)

        This is how we know that when she cherry picked her messages to turn over, she left quite a fe

    • A number of emails a secretary of state are inherently classified by nature - the official term is "Born Classified". It is not possible to be secretary of state and not send some classified information from whatever email account you are using for that job - even if it was a one word reply on which way a decision with long-term ramifications should go in regards to another country...

  • Do we really need Snowden to tell us this? What is he now, the media's go-to guy for computer security? He's playing a key role in our understanding of CIA/NSA operations, no doubt, but he doesn't have any more expertise on the Clinton email scandal than your average Slashdot reader.

  • The really awful thing about Clinton storing all kinds of classified data on her server is not just that some of it may have been stolen...

    Np, the far worse problem is that because she wiped the server, the intelligence community now has now way to know exactly WHAT information may have been leaked, and (again because the server was wiped) no way to have a good idea of the probability of it having been hacked or not - meaning anything she or anyone she worked with had access too, has all got to be considere

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