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Emails Show NSA Rejected Hillary Clinton's Request For Secure Smartphone (cbsnews.com)
An anonymous reader writes from an article on CBSNews: Newly released emails show a 2009 request to issue a secure government smartphone to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was denied by the National Security Agency. Clinton's desire for a secure "BlackBerry-like" device, like the one provided to President Barack Obama, is recounted in a series of February 2009 exchanges between high-level officials at the State Department and NSA. Clinton was sworn in as secretary the prior month, and had become "hooked" on reading and answering emails on a BlackBerry she used during the 2008 presidential race. "We began examining options for (Secretary Clinton) with respect to secure 'BlackBerry-like' communications," wrote Donald R. Reid, the department's assistant director for security infrastructure. "The current state of the art is not too user friendly, has no infrastructure, and is very expensive." Reid wrote that each time they asked the NSA what solution they had worked up to provide a mobile device to Obama, "we were politely told to shut up and color."
Ah yes, when you can't get your own way and get what you want, that totally makes it okay to break the law.
That's why a police officer who can't get his confession can keep bashing the suspect's head in.
That's why politicians can sell votes.
Following the law is for chumps who have no leadership potential.
That's cute. You think the intelligence machine and the banking cartel don't tell the President when to jump and how high. The last President to oppose them was Kennedy. Oops.
Are you shitting me!?,I can't get an exemption to the speed limit, so that makes it okay for me to speed? What the fuck kind of logic is that? You do realize, of course, that the president travels with a military communications team and a 747 dedicated,to giving him that ability, mostly so that he can authorize nuking the world. Hilary could wait 8 hours until she got to an embassy; her boss is actually informed enough to make decisions for her in her absence.
It seems more like this would indicate that she knew full well she was dealing with sensitive information that she knew had to pass through a secured device. So, ignoring the law, she sent that sensitive information through a server that she knew she shouldn't. We know she knew she shouldn't because she told her own staff they couldn't do the same.
This is a sympathetic article designed to sow confusion about this stuff. The article made the true but irrelevant statement that of a recent batch of emails not many were classified and those not Top Secret; it repeated Hillary Clinton's assertion that nothing she sent or received was marked classified, without discussing what is questionable about that assertion; it didn't mention how many Top Secret emails were found, didn't mention the satellite data or the discussion of the names of spies, and didn't mention that about 7% of all the emails were classified at some level. It also didn't mention that the State Department offered a Blackberry and Huma Abedin said that idea "doesn't make a whole lot of sense." But the article did spend several paragraphs talking about how well she is doing in the primaries.
Problems with Hillary Clinton's claims that no material was marked classified:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/8/28/1416309/-Hillary-Clinton-s-Felony-The-federal-laws-violated-by-the-private-server
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/02/09/judicial-watch-hillary-e-mailed-classified-info-to-get-printout-without-any-identifiers/
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/19/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-server-classified-ig-report/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-on-her-private-server-wrote-104-emails-the-government-says-are-classified/2016/03/05/11e2ee06-dbd6-11e5-81ae-7491b9b9e7df_story.html
Names of spies discussed in insecure email, lives probably lost:
http://observer.com/2016/02/breaking-hillary-clinton-put-spies-lives-at-risk/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3413033/Hillary-s-emails-contained-classified-information-HUMAN-SPYING-State-Department-says-won-t-meet-deadline-publish-emails.html
Satellite data discussed in emails:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3196774/Hillary-s-emails-contained-secret-CIA-intelligence-satellite-info-panic-hits-Democrats-campaign-issues-4-000-word-explanation-s-innocent.html
7% of emails classified... 2079 out of about 30,000:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/02/new-email-release-brings-final-total-of-classified-clinton-emails-to-2079.php
"doesn't make a whole lot of sense":
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/01/18/state-to-huma-in-2011-your-boss-better-get-an-official-e-mail-account/
P.S. So Hillary Clinton wanted a mobile device that could be used for secure communications, and was told "nope, that's not secure, you can visit the SCIF just like everyone else has to do." So naturally she just used her own insecure server to send and receive classified information, so she could use her mobile device. Great.
If President Obama doesn't pardon Hillary Clinton, she will have problems fr
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
The best part of this story is that the device the NSA wanted to give Hillary uses Windows CE.
I am not shitting you.
http://arstechnica.com/informa...
You are welcome on my lawn.
The other Secretaries of State didn't need to release emails because the State Department already had them.
She was trying to escape FOIA requests and got caught with other crap as well. She was also skirting federal records keeping laws.
What other Secretary of State kept their own personal email server and then, only after being ordered to do so, decided which emails were actually government records that she should then return to the agency for which she was employed.
Why the shit would you need an NSA-modded Blackberry to connect to a personal server? Nothing on State Department email is supposed to be classified, period. The small number of questionable emails turned up are exactly what you'd expect in that volume of communications--the presence of those communications on email would not be permitted EVEN IF it had been an official state.gov account.
In order for the conspiracy claims to hold any water, you have to string so many conditions together that it just doesn't make any rational sense.
The facts are that no Secretary of State had ever used a State Department email address before, that everything sent via email is supposed to be unclassified regardless, and the only piece that runs into real trouble is the possibility of dodging FOIA, which is well-tread territory in the government. People have side-channeled conversations forever, and will continue to do so via any number of methods. Forget Hillary Clinton--It's a whole lot of nothing, period, and it would be if it were George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, or Bernie Sanders.