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Spies May Have Intercepted Hillary Emails
2015-03-29
There are growing concerns that Hillary Clinton’s decision to use a private email server to conduct State Department business may have allowed foreign spies to access her correspondence, according to the chairmen of three major Senate national security oversight committees.
The Senators are about a month behind Rantburg but it's always good to see our elected officials exercise a little obvious common sense, eventually...
Clinton’s personal email could have become “a priority target for foreign intelligence services,” according to a letter sent to the State Department inspector general by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R., Tenn.), Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr (R., N.C.), and Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) on March 12.

“We write to you today concerning the recent revelations that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other top aides used non-State Department email addresses and servers to conduct official U.S. Government business,” the senators wrote. “We are concerned that diplomatically sensitive, and possibly classified, information may have been transmitted and stored in an insecure manner.”
Duhhhh! All USG official communications are 'high priority targets' for foreign intelligence, or what was formerly known as 'Hostile Intelligence Services (HOIS).'
The senators noted that overseas intelligence agencies “continuously probe our government’s information systems for weaknesses and attempt targeted intrusions.”
Hillary's privater server would have been catnip to foreign intel services. It's just not possible that they would have resisted, and they almost certainly would have known about it...
“The use of privately maintained information systems that are not protected by federal government experts and key technical capabilities raises serious concerns as those networks may be less secure,” they wrote.
In Hillary's defense, her server might have had an old copy of Norton installed...
The senators asked the State Department inspector general to provide the names of any other officials who worked under Clinton who used personal email for government correspondence, details about the security of Clinton’s private email, an assessment on whether any official emails were deleted by Clinton or her staff, and information on whether Clinton or others withheld any emails that should be publicly available.
This is not the first time Foggy Bottom has been involved in inappropriate handling of classified data, loss or theft entire systems or individual documents. They have a history of communications security (COMSEC) violations and breaches. COMSEC is a joke for these people, an inconvenience to be ignored if possible. Check the attitude and comments of the Beest. She thinks it's a big joke.
“We ask that this be an unclassified report, and that a classified annex be provided if necessary,” said the letter.

The senators warned that “if a non-government server was known to be a repository for the secretary’s emails, it would almost certainly become—if it is not already—a priority target for foreign intelligence services and others.”
To assume the Beest's communications were not compromised would amount to negligence. Secure communications [SIPR] and 'high-side' are there for a reason.
Posted by:Steve White

#11  as much as i despise the clintons and i do ever since listening to Christopher Hitchens talk about America's Worst Family in the Clinton era

i don't like the clintons

but when you have spies with unlimited power, trawling without warrant through any citizen's communications

then everyone has some email where they've said something that can be used to smear them

then they can be blackmailed to give the spies what they want (more powers)

or they can be smeared publicly through leaks to the press so they lose their job and more compliant candidates get up


what is the point of having a democracy if you are going to let it turn it into a Putin KGB police state?
Posted by: anon1   2015-03-29 13:16  

#10  I read that Hillary used outdated ( and vulnerable) copies of Outlook and Exchange.

Often, in email systems, it isn't the server that is necessaily vulnerable, but the means of accessing the mail.

If they used a POP (post office protocol) server, that could have been at least one of the cracks on their mail accessing security.
Posted by: badanov   2015-03-29 12:13  

#9  The pro-Rowe vs Wade menagerie of morons that make up her base are 'all forgiving.'

Posted by: Besoeker   2015-03-29 12:06  

#8  In Hillary's defense, her server might have had an old copy of Norton installed

Do not forget that her security was not properly installed, so she had ZERO copies of Norton (or anything else) installed.
Posted by: frozen al   2015-03-29 11:55  

#7  After looking at some of the foreign money coming her way from some questionable sources, IMO it was all part of the plan. The dupes who might be thinking of voting for her because she is a womym will never see the sleaziness because of a sleazy MSM that provides cover for these slimy politicians.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-03-29 11:20  

#6  The Senators are about a month behind Rantburg

That's about the closest they've gotten in a long while.

Most everyone's incoming knowledge about many things is delayed, deferred or deleted by the 'standard information sources'. That's why Rantburg and other 'aggressive news aggregation' sites are so important in order to actually know what's going on.

'Tomorrow's New Today!'

If you haven't already, hit the tip jar.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2015-03-29 11:01  

#5  The Clintons are notoriously cheap. Combine that with "we want a server, whatever that is, to do the email thingie" and this is what you get.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-03-29 09:57  

#4  A 'decoy' Woodrow? I'd hate to give our intelligence community [such as it is today] credit for such innovation.

More likely that Chinaman agents gave the Beest the server as a gift, along with remote system administration support from Bayjingee.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-03-29 07:27  

#3  One might suspect the private server was intended to make interception easier. Wasn't Billy Jeff Clinton the one that gave away so much sensitive technology to China?

"Dual-use" rocket technology and submarine propeller milling technology. Yeah, I seem to remember something like that.
Posted by: Woodrow Stalin1308   2015-03-29 04:54  

#2  Holding soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines to one communications security standard, and these arrogant wankers to yet another is absolutely maddening. Excellent people in uniform have had their careers damaged and even terminated for a tiny fraction of the violations produced by this blatant ignorance and negligence.

Maddening, absolutely maddening and disgusting.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-03-29 02:03  

#1  The markup is funny :)
Posted by: newc   2015-03-29 01:53  

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