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2016-11-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Former DoS Official Sez 'Every Cabinet Officer and WH Staff Uses Their Gmail Account'
[PJ] A former top State Department official who worked under Hillary Clinton told John Podesta that the use of private email accounts by Obama administration officials is widespread. "Btw you know as well as I every g*d d*mn cabinet officer and WH staff uses [their] gmail account!" Tom Nides, the former deputy secretary of state for management and resources, wrote to Clinton's campaign chair in a March 2015 email released by WikiLeaks.

Nides advised Podesta on how the campaign should handle the Clinton email scandal. "For what it’s worth. There is only one thing that needs to be done on this email thing. (Which I am sure nobody wants to do). Get a state dept career lawyer to go through all the emails and pull the official ones. I know all the reasons not to do it but it’s going to happen so we should do it," he wrote to Podesta.
Con't.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-11-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 And here I thought Google got all their money from Ads and search exposure..
Posted by CrazyFool 2016-11-02 00:26||   2016-11-02 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Google fees (per each):

Delete e-mail: $1
Delete classified or off-color email: $10
Delete secret or incriminating email: $100
Delete top-secret or mistress email: $1,000
Delete compartmentalized email: $10,000
Posted by gorb 2016-11-02 00:46||   2016-11-02 00:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Must've been because Gmail sounds more official than Yahoo for the cabinet.
Posted by Victor Emmanuel Unolugum7824 2016-11-02 01:36||   2016-11-02 01:36|| Front Page Top

#4 
Posted by Skidmark 2016-11-02 08:50||   2016-11-02 08:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Our company's policy is this:

Anything business related needs to use the official company email address each employee has. Period.

Failure to do so means you are fired. Period.

You can use as many private email addresses as you like for your private stuff but you may not use company computers to access it. Period.
Posted by European Conservative 2016-11-02 09:26||   2016-11-02 09:26|| Front Page Top

#6 They think they are untouchable, that is the problem.

When I worked for DOD, any hint that someone was using an unsecured account would bring down the wrath. These people do not fear retribution and punishment.

New policy - Anyone caught using unsecured communication methods will have their hands cut off and their tongue removed from their head.
Posted by DarthVader 2016-11-02 10:29||   2016-11-02 10:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Hillary won't be President of the REPUBLIC.

She will be Imperitrice . First Citizen. The Palace and the Hope for all Change come true.
Posted by Spike Slomock5420 2016-11-02 11:10||   2016-11-02 11:10|| Front Page Top

#8 My company won't even let you use personal gMail on its devices or network for security reasons. But then, we're serious about protecting our data, not in fostering cheap political theatre.
Posted by regular joe 2016-11-02 13:10||   2016-11-02 13:10|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm pretty sure there's a reason they all use GMail accounts...
Posted by Raj 2016-11-02 13:41||   2016-11-02 13:41|| Front Page Top

#10 ...Eric Schmidt refusing to comply with future potential congressional subpoenas on those accounts.
Posted by Raj 2016-11-02 13:42||   2016-11-02 13:42|| Front Page Top

#11 So in order to hide their activities from FOIA scrutiny they conduct their business on an insecure platform with a huge attack surface and expose their precious information to any foreign entity that isn't electronically deaf and blind?

How much does it cost to bribe a Google intern to download the content of their mail accounts on a USB stick?

The free world is lead be people displaying Bizarro level stupidity.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2016-11-02 18:27||   2016-11-02 18:27|| Front Page Top

#12 One rather 'wild eyed' theory is that the email scandal was actually created by the Clinton team (knowing that everyone including POTUS does it) and introduced by the NYT in order to portray HRC as the 'underdog.' Underdog status being necessary to win against Trump.

If that theory proves valid, the created scandal appears to have gotten somewhat out of hand.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-11-02 18:55||   2016-11-02 18:55|| Front Page Top

#13 A 'not so wild' theory that should be examined centers around the foible that both Carlos Danger and Bill Clinton appear to have in common.

'Two things make the world go around... and the other one is money.'
~ author unknown

The Clinton's have the money issue well covered. The 'other'.... if it is in play, is yet to be revealed.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-11-02 19:03||   2016-11-02 19:03|| Front Page Top

#14 I think it is in play.
Posted by JohnQC 2016-11-02 22:15||   2016-11-02 22:15|| Front Page Top

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