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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."
Of course it does.
Any time someone in IT thwarts your desires, you should immediately expose information that could get people in other countries killed.
And you absolutely be given a free pass for that, because reasons.
I see you are finally starting to understand how it really works.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
The facts behind this news item actually explains very little, other than she wanted a Blackberry-type device. If (as seems likely) she intended to use a Blackberry to read email from her personally run server - how does that change anything?
ThIs smells like a bizarre attempt at trying to somehow spin her request for a Blackberry-type device into "hey we tried to get Hillary a secure email solution and got turned down, so the personal server thing shouldn't be an issue".
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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.
You missed the point. She tried to play by the US security apparatuses rules and basically got told to go away, so she did what many people do when your IT department is being stupid and figured out a way to do what she needed so she could do her job.
No! It's a *SIG*. Keep the Special Interest Groups away! (Con joke!)
A better car analogy is that, when she was denied the right to speed on the highway with nitro, she built her own racetrack in her backyard. Of course she didn't intentionally use nitro there as it's dangerous if not done properly.
Several years later, an investigation revealed that a few gallons of gas she was shipped had a little nitro in them, even though they weren't labelled as such at the time.
Exactly. What I see is the NSA telling Hillary that what passes as a 'secure' blackberry-type solution was in fact a very custom, labor-intensive, manual process that was deemed too expensive/hard to offer to anyone other than POTUS. Let's not forget the timeline: 1) confirmed as Secretary of State 2) hired consultant to establish private server 3) never asks for gov't email account 4) starts working as Secretary of State 5) requests Presidential-level secure device 6) request denied 7) goes rest of her career at State using private email server, keeping all emails private & out of reach for FOIA requests 8) a year after leaving state, amid public outcry, turns over 55,000 pages of printed (on paper) emails 9) declares herself most transparent Secretary of State...
Perhaps then you can link to the 55k emails released by other Secretary of state office holders? The ones who were more transparent?
Just because you dream up a fantasy from right wing bizzaro world.
That's a crap car analogy. She didn't stay in her backyard.
A better car analogy is she asked for an armored car to transport money between her home and work. They said she couldn't have one because she had no business taking her work's money home. She decided she'd build her own little garage at home and used it for all of her own cars. But while she was at it she took some of her work's money home with her in her sports car, and got some of her accomplices at work to stuff the money into sacks that read 'definitely not money' so she wouldn't be troubling her bosses with details like what she should and shouldn't be taking home with her in her hot rod.
No... She was told "No, you can't have a secure blackberry, Your boss (The President) won't authorize it" so she ``conspired'' with others to break the law to get what she wanted.
So she's a good little republican.
Bingo!
Nothing she did as far as the email stuff goes was illegal when she did it.
You knew that, right?