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State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server (computerworld.com)
dcblogs writes this report from Computerworld: Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's decision to use a private email server ran afoul of the government's IT security and record retention requirements, according to a report by the department's inspector general released today. This use of a private email server did not go unnoticed within the Department of State's IT department. Two IT staff members who raised concerns about Clinton's use of a private server were told not to speak of it. Clinton was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 and during that period she used a private email server in her New York home. This report by the Department of State's Inspector General about Clinton's use of a private server makes clear that rules and regulations were not followed. It says that Clinton would not have received approval for this server had she sought it. According to the current CIO, the report said, "Secretary Clinton had an obligation to discuss using her personal email account to conduct official business with their offices, who in turn would have attempted to provide her with approved and secured means that met her business needs." However, the report notes, according to these officials, The Bureau of Diplomatic Security and IRM (Bureau of Information Resource Management) "did not -- and would not -- approve her exclusive reliance on a personal email account to conduct Department business, because of the restrictions in the FAM [Foreign Affairs Manual] and the security risks in doing so."
The 9 biggest revelations in the State IG report on Clinton's emails
It has been reported that the FBI was able to recover the deleted emails... and presumably they recovered more than just the giant binary file which contained the email store, so a more in-depth look at if the server had ever been compromised is probably possible, but we aren't going to know for sure until the FBI talks a bit more publicly.
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Sorry for the repeated politico.com links. No affiliation, but I've reading my political news there lately. If you want to preserve your sanity, don't read the comments at that site.
She was, once.
Somehow she went without retraining/reminding for the final 3 years of her tenure.
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If nothing on Hillary's server was classified it should be released without redaction for full review and inspection by any party. That has not happened, and it won't happen. FOI requests regarding information on her server are denied almost as soon as they are filed.
You aren't giving credit where credit is due. Judicial Watch has a lawsuit pursuing information along these lines, and is making progress. (They accept donations in their fight against corruption.)
In fact you can thank them for the progress being made:
Judicial Watch Statement on State Department OIG Report on Hillary Clinton’s Email Practices
It was Judicial Watch’s litigation that almost certainly forced the State Department to publicly disclose Hillary Clinton’s secret email account that is now the subject of a scathing Inspector General Report. A statement by the State Department in a February 2, 2015, status report in response to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit was the first notice to the public and the court that State had failed to thoroughly search all of Clinton’s email records: “[The State Department] has discovered that additional searches for documents potentially responsive to the FOIA must be conducted.” That statement was the first acknowledgement of Clinton’s secret email. And now, nearly a year and a half later, the State Department’s own Inspector General is confirming the gravity of Clinton’s end run around the law. Judicial Watch already uncovered much of the information cited in this report. But the OIG report will be helpful in upcoming questioning of witnesses about the Clinton email matter.
Judicial Watch Begins Discovery in Hillary Clinton Email Matter
More on the Clinton email scandal at Judicial Watch.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
The government routinely reverse classifies anything, particularly anything that will embarass anyone in a prominent government position or in an elected office. This is SOP.
I'm a total lefty, but Kerry, Albright, Rice, and Powell weren't running their own insecure servers which were hacked at least once that we know of.
We know she was hacked? That's surprising because I've been paying attention and I don't know she was hacked.
Then you are a self-deluded shill trying to appear balanced, but you are really, really, really bad at it. Your further statements prove you have absolutely no understanding, whatsoever, how real things work in the real world. You hear what you want to hear in your basement. Good luck with that.
And yet despite the release of all of Palin's emails, I don't recall a single one being redacted for containing classified information which had been unlawfully stored in an unapproved location.
Nice try at deflection, best try to find a more relevant example to try to excuse bad behavior with.
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Hillary is more Fascist than Trump. Fascism and Nazism were considered by nearly everyone on the left to be left wing before WWII. It was only after the massive war crimes that the left deftly relabeled them as right wing, and it apparently stuck. I know that most of you aren't old enough to remember that, but by God you could learn a little history!
She violated several statues concerning the handling of classified email as well as the various document retention statues which apply specifically to any work product for high level government officials. Neither of those sets of laws are department specific and apply to all federal agencies.
The laws and statues concerning handling of classified materials are especially damning because they don't even require intent to be found guilty. Merely having classified material outside of secured authorized channels is enough to be in violation. The mere existence of her server as well as the thumb drive she gave her lawyer were immediate proof of a violation as soon as the first classified piece of email was found.
Of course that's just my opinion...... you could be wrong!
How much does being an online pro-Clinton shill pay? Or is your ignorance actually real?
Clearly you aren't paying attention, applicable laws have been cited by many, allow me to educate you. To start, look up 18 U.S. Code 793
Given the emails she turned over contained satellite images which should have been labeled as "TOP SECRET//SI//TK//NOFORN", it's pretty clear that would be covered by the above section (as just one example).
You'll note in the statute above, there is no intent required, only gross negligence, which is a pretty easy bar to meet given her knowingly setting up a server that as SoS would receive classified information from time to time.
And this aside from the fact the IG says that she didn't turn over all of the emails she was supposed to, not only can she be hit under 793 for the emails being removed from their "proper place of custody", but also for the destruction of them as well, but also for destruction of the emails under FOIA laws.
No, she can't. She could declassify anything originating from State, but anything coming from another agency she has no authority over.
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Seriously, how much does being a Clinton shill pay? I'm looking for a side gig.
Intent is not required, only gross negligence.
Damages are not required, simply allowing the classified info to end up in an unapproved place is.
Ever stop to read & consider just one of the relevant?
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Well, the real question IMHO is "maybe oral briefing isn't really briefing", you know?
Not only do we know Hillary has broken federal laws, Hillary has also started at least one war entirely on her own (Libya), and frankly in what should matter to at least Slashdot people is directly responsible for the death of an IT worker who just happened to be at the U.S. embassy in Libya when it was attacked. But I guess you don't care about him, do you? You just want Hillary to be elected, no matter the costs to the rest of us...
Meanwhile Trump has broken no federal laws, and has never started a war of any kind, and actually knows how to use things like Twitter. Do you want an imbecile technophobe who cannot even drive as president, or someone who actually knows what computers are and uses them?
Obviously if Sanders was running he would be the best choice but Queen Hillary is not going to let that happen, now is she? Her ability to block the will of the DNC primary voters is to you I am sure just another sign of how much she should be president, because female!
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you think Hillary 'wipe - you mean like with a towel' Clinton
Is this supposed to be some kind of Trump-inspired misogynist insult?
What? He's QUOTING HER. A reporter asked her if she wiped the server before allowing the FBI to see it. And she said, "What, like with a towel?"
I know, you already know that, and you're hoping that other people don't so you can pretend otherwise. Just another Shillary, trying to distract from her own words.
Here's the National Archives transfer requirements, from 2002, for e-mail messages with attachments:
The practical issue is that an individual's emails must be archived in such a way that they can be organized and searched as a "body of records."
The example given for labeling a body of records is, "the e-mail records of the Deputy Secretary from the past fiscal year."
If someone want's to know what the Secretary of State said about a certain subject then they need to search the emails the secretary sent. The way Secretary Clinton performed cc/forwarding of emails then all emails of anyone to whom she sent an email would have to be searched.
It is the responsibility of the head of each Federal agency to make and preserve records including, "effective controls over the creation and over the maintenance and use of records in the conduct of current business." It's hard to see how failing to keep as a record the emails one sent and relying on the addressees to retain those records meets the standard the National Archives has set.
Secretary Clinton said she didn't want anyone to be able to search or examine her personal emails. The system she deployed made it so no one could search her official emails either.
At least Trump appears not wanting to police the entire planet - read "to start wars that favor the defense industry that pays campaign money".
Our allies would just declare war on the US because Trump is a threat to the world.
If Hillary gets elected I'm sure she'll start a couple of pointless wars.
You're confusing Hillary with George W.