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".
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...
I am not aware of any precedent in US law that allows people to be legally compelled to produce things they don't have or can't reasonably be expected to produce.
The classification is based on the information, not the markings.
The reality is it is impossible to send information from a secure server to an insecure email server - you can copy & paste info from the secure system to an insecure system but in doing so you have to be aware you are doing so to circumvent security.
I am sure that if this were an (R) running for President, you'd be calling for his hanging
No, the Dems would pull out that old, reliable, 'hold elected officials to a higher-standard' argument and claim that the mere accusation alone should invalidate a Republican candidate's campaign - when Democrats are caught in these situations they argue 'innocent until proven guilty'...
The most recent examples of this was Rep. Tom Delay (R) and Rep. Charlie Rangel (D). Tom Delay was accused of violating election laws BEFORE they were signed into law and was run out of the House Leadership - he was ultimately found innocent of all charges. Rep. Rangel solicited funds on official stationary, keeping multiple rent-controlled apartments in Harlem (3) including using one for his office, all in violation of rent laws in NYC, and failed to properly file his personal income taxes, including failure to report income from a vacation rental property in the Virgin Islands... He kept his job, and was guilty of all charges.
It seems likely that Hilary will win, so I've not paid much attention beyond that.
The on-going criminal investigation into her handling of state secrets/classified material while at the same time running for office isn't a concern? It won't impact her chances of winning?
Wow.
Democrats demand that Republicans resign if merely 'accused' of a crime (hold ourselves to a higher standard is the explaination), yet after 1,818 examples of classified (confidential, secret or top secret) material were found in her 55,000 pages of emails (submitted to the State Department printed on paper to delay the review process!) Hillary remains the presumptive nominee because, well 'Don't you, at some point, want a woman President?'
contamination levels are 80% higher than previous samples
So let me get this straight - the initial readings were well below any dangerous threshold, now the readings have increased and are now 80% higher than the initial readings, and are now 0.1% of the dangerous threshold... That's the alarming problem? No, that's a contrived problem being used to further an emotional argument against nukes because the facts don't support it.
Back in 1969 the gov't suspended circulation of all bills greater than $100... If we want to revisit that decision, the likely conclusion would be to bring back the $500 bill, not claw back the $100 bill. A hundred 1969 dollars is over six hundred dollars today - that makes today's $100 bill the equivalent of a $20 bill in $1969 (based on buying power).
This is about the government being able to track ever more transactions, not about 'fighting terrorisim'.
Keep telling yourself that - the only demographic she won in NH was 'over 65', Bernie took every other Demo.
With a fifth Supreme Court judgeship on the line, Republicans will come out of the woodwork and vote for whatever isn't a democrat.
No such thing as 'recess appointments' for Supreme Court Justices.
There are a long line of nominees that are not seated in SCOTUS, the most obvious recent one was Robert Bork.
Ask Joe Biden why it was OK for Dems to deny Bork, yet Republicans can't block Obama's nominees?
In 2014, with our wildly unfair tax code, the top 1% of tax filers, rose that reported income in excess of $615,000, together paid just over 47% of all federal income tax collected.
Simple fact.
Robert Bork respectfully notes that Senate review is not a speedy process and that simply being nominated by a sitting President doesn't guarantee one a seat at the Supreme Court.
For additional information, look up 'borked' and consider the role Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden had in those proceedings.
The State Department confirmed Monday [Feb. 8, 2016] that the FBI is looking into former Secretary Hillary Clintonâ(TM)s email server, filing a notice with a federal judge laying out the vague outlines of the investigation.
The FBIâ(TM)s chief attorney wrote the State Department on Feb. 2 to officially acknowledge the probe, correcting the record from last year, when the FBI refused to say one way or the other whether it was looking into the matter.
I was wondering where all the Diesel engine software engineers from Volkswagen went after their 'improvements' to the emissions system in diesel VWs was 'discovered'... Now I know - they went to work on hybrid cars apparently.
The 'personal anecdote' is about a government entity, not a store. I can imagine many gov't entities that may choose to not accept 'cash', because accepting cash requires additional security that checks, CC, and money orders don't, requires you to keep sufficient change on-hand, make bank deposits, etc.
On the subject of this article, I support the elimination of 'caps' that require documentation for using cash in transactions above a certain threshold.
Parents just want to make sure their children "get into computers" because that is where the money is (working in IT compared to working at McDonalds).
Imagine it works out exactly as it's supporters imagine, will programming still be a valuable job skill once 'everyone' knows how to 'program'?
Once upon a time young women went to 'business schools' to learn a good-paying trade, 'typist'. Then parents insisted that every school offer typing classes, now what was once a career option is now a basic job requirement for any white collar job.
(Typing isn't programming, but I see programming heading down a similar vector.)
The Obamacare website was the best example of this: the politicians and civil servants did not understand enough to manage the contractors.
Nor were they able to draft a contract that withheld payment for work that produced that failure...
Nor were they able to draft a document that withheld payment for fraudulent testing submitted to meet project milestones.
But hey, they really took a big chunk out of that 40 million uninsured Americans - right?
Honestly, I try not to be an asshole, but when you try to placate college students that can't cope with, y'know, college, it's hard for me to hold back.
Had a discussion earlier today about college kids, an interesting development is the number of schools that have a rather wide-ranging set of remedial classes to help high school graduates approach reading, writing, and doing math at something approaching grade-level.
I think the gov't should refuse to offer student loans to students that need remedial classes - those students should be sent back to their high school to address their short-comings - don't force the students to borrow money to pay a college professor to help them read at a 10th grade level, make the school system that graduated them bring them up to grade-level.
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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...
We're in a brave new world - a few years ago people were arguing that there was no way the government can compel a citizen to buy a product
The reality is it is impossible to send information from a secure server to an insecure email server - you can copy & paste info from the secure system to an insecure system but in doing so you have to be aware you are doing so to circumvent security.
No, the Dems would pull out that old, reliable, 'hold elected officials to a higher-standard' argument and claim that the mere accusation alone should invalidate a Republican candidate's campaign - when Democrats are caught in these situations they argue 'innocent until proven guilty'... The most recent examples of this was Rep. Tom Delay (R) and Rep. Charlie Rangel (D). Tom Delay was accused of violating election laws BEFORE they were signed into law and was run out of the House Leadership - he was ultimately found innocent of all charges. Rep. Rangel solicited funds on official stationary, keeping multiple rent-controlled apartments in Harlem (3) including using one for his office, all in violation of rent laws in NYC, and failed to properly file his personal income taxes, including failure to report income from a vacation rental property in the Virgin Islands... He kept his job, and was guilty of all charges.
There is, it's called Facebook...
You are describing a typical Atom MB.
The on-going criminal investigation into her handling of state secrets/classified material while at the same time running for office isn't a concern? It won't impact her chances of winning? Wow. Democrats demand that Republicans resign if merely 'accused' of a crime (hold ourselves to a higher standard is the explaination), yet after 1,818 examples of classified (confidential, secret or top secret) material were found in her 55,000 pages of emails (submitted to the State Department printed on paper to delay the review process!) Hillary remains the presumptive nominee because, well 'Don't you, at some point, want a woman President?'
It's not even twice as big as the tiny amount...
So let me get this straight - the initial readings were well below any dangerous threshold, now the readings have increased and are now 80% higher than the initial readings, and are now 0.1% of the dangerous threshold... That's the alarming problem? No, that's a contrived problem being used to further an emotional argument against nukes because the facts don't support it.
Back in 1969 the gov't suspended circulation of all bills greater than $100... If we want to revisit that decision, the likely conclusion would be to bring back the $500 bill, not claw back the $100 bill. A hundred 1969 dollars is over six hundred dollars today - that makes today's $100 bill the equivalent of a $20 bill in $1969 (based on buying power). This is about the government being able to track ever more transactions, not about 'fighting terrorisim'.
That explains Warren's appeal to the young voters!
Keep telling yourself that - the only demographic she won in NH was 'over 65', Bernie took every other Demo. With a fifth Supreme Court judgeship on the line, Republicans will come out of the woodwork and vote for whatever isn't a democrat.
No such thing as 'recess appointments' for Supreme Court Justices. There are a long line of nominees that are not seated in SCOTUS, the most obvious recent one was Robert Bork. Ask Joe Biden why it was OK for Dems to deny Bork, yet Republicans can't block Obama's nominees?
In 2014, with our wildly unfair tax code, the top 1% of tax filers, rose that reported income in excess of $615,000, together paid just over 47% of all federal income tax collected. Simple fact.
Robert Bork respectfully notes that Senate review is not a speedy process and that simply being nominated by a sitting President doesn't guarantee one a seat at the Supreme Court. For additional information, look up 'borked' and consider the role Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden had in those proceedings.
Trump can go 'write-in' in every district in America... His supporters are motivated enough to support an independent write-in campaign.
I was wondering where all the Diesel engine software engineers from Volkswagen went after their 'improvements' to the emissions system in diesel VWs was 'discovered'... Now I know - they went to work on hybrid cars apparently.
The 'personal anecdote' is about a government entity, not a store. I can imagine many gov't entities that may choose to not accept 'cash', because accepting cash requires additional security that checks, CC, and money orders don't, requires you to keep sufficient change on-hand, make bank deposits, etc. On the subject of this article, I support the elimination of 'caps' that require documentation for using cash in transactions above a certain threshold.
"Computer Lib/Dream Machine"
Yes we will.
Imagine it works out exactly as it's supporters imagine, will programming still be a valuable job skill once 'everyone' knows how to 'program'? Once upon a time young women went to 'business schools' to learn a good-paying trade, 'typist'. Then parents insisted that every school offer typing classes, now what was once a career option is now a basic job requirement for any white collar job. (Typing isn't programming, but I see programming heading down a similar vector.)
Nor were they able to draft a contract that withheld payment for work that produced that failure... Nor were they able to draft a document that withheld payment for fraudulent testing submitted to meet project milestones. But hey, they really took a big chunk out of that 40 million uninsured Americans - right?
Had a discussion earlier today about college kids, an interesting development is the number of schools that have a rather wide-ranging set of remedial classes to help high school graduates approach reading, writing, and doing math at something approaching grade-level. I think the gov't should refuse to offer student loans to students that need remedial classes - those students should be sent back to their high school to address their short-comings - don't force the students to borrow money to pay a college professor to help them read at a 10th grade level, make the school system that graduated them bring them up to grade-level.