Posted on 09/11/2015 7:16:27 PM PDT by Libloather
Days after Hillary Clinton finally acknowledged that using a private email server while secretary of State was “a mistake,” a super-PAC supporting her says it was actually the responsible, safe approach to data security.
While the Democratic presidential nominee's notorious server doesn’t appear to have been hacked, the federal government definitely was, Correct the Record said in a report out Friday.
“The U.S. government has been hacked on numerous occasions, compromising even the most sensitive of information,” Correct the Record said. “Anyone who attempts to argue that the contents of Hillary Clinton’s email would have been more secure on a government server must contend with these facts.”
Correct the Record, founded by Clinton ally David Brock, spun off from parent group American Bridge 21st Century in May to focus exclusively on defending Clinton from political and media attacks.
Critics have lambasted Clinton’s use of a private server as a threat to national security. The FBI is investigating the contents of the server, trying to determine whether it was compromised by hackers.
The Correct the Record report catalogues evidence — culled primarily from news reports — that Clinton’s server was not compromised.
The report notes that no clintonemail.com messages were found in the Manning Wikileaks dump, unlike thousands of State Department correspondences, and that a State Department spokeswoman said in March that there was “no indication that the email was compromised.”
The super-PAC also detailed the security safeguards Clinton used to protect the server.
The report juxtaposes its support of Clinton’s server with a damning index of federal hacks, including the recent Office of Personnel Management hack and a 2006 hack of State Department computers.
The Democratic White House hopeful continues to come under fire over her use of the private server. Clinton for the first time on Tuesday said she was “sorry” about the account and its server.
"It was above board. But in retrospective, certainly, as I look back at it now — even though it was allowed — I should have used two accounts, one for personal, one for work-related emails," Clinton told ABC News's David Muir.
“The U.S. government has been hacked on numerous occasions, compromising even the most sensitive of information,” Correct the Record said. “Anyone who attempts to argue that the contents of Hillary Clinton’s email would have been more secure on a government server must contend with these facts.””
If this were the reason Clinton had given when the story first broke she may have gotten away with it. Now? No one buys it.
It was only a matter of time. This was predicted a months ago.
You know, if only she had used an Al Qaeda-supplied server.
They never would have looked there.
.?? Wut? Is she saying Obamacare data is in danger and to keep government off our affairs all of a sudden???
Un fckn believable
More red herrings, smoke and mirrors.
Fromthe same people that spun “lying is good fo you” after Bill was caught on tape lying under oath.
You can't "hack" into a computer you're not connected to and it's not connected to you.
I'm told the network that handles highly sensitive information is "air-gapped", meaning there is no electronic interface between it and the public network. Someone can copy data to some sort of portable media and then physically carry it to a computer on another network, but it cannot be "hacked" from the outside.
On the great STUPIDEST THINGS EVER WRITTEN LIST, Correct The Record zooms straight to the top with their latest comments.
I believe that Hillary was The Secretary Of State.
That is the chief executive position for the State Department.
That means that she was responsible for the communications security of all her communications.
Now, they are going to say that the system she was in charge of was no good? She couldn’t fix it?
With a reach like that, these people should be playing First Base.
And she wants to be the Chief Executive for our nation?
She couldn’t sharpen pencils without stabbing four people in their eyes.
Ummmmm...what?
Well you know it was much cleaner and shinier, from all that wiping...
Hillary Clinton has invoked the Bart Simpson defense:
I didn’t do it.
No one saw me do it.
You can’t prove anything.
You can't hack into a classified government computer because it's not connected to the world wide web.
Image=Saved.
Maybe the Chinese helped keep the Rooskies out of what was theirs?
Perhaps they have a point.
That prvents classic hack attempts. Doesn’t stop social engineering hacks.
Really? So then, her server was *so* secure that this non-State Dept. entity knows the details of its security safeguards?
Astonishing !!!
On September 11th. Some people really need to have their ass kicked.
There you go, Hillary. Maybe a crock will work better than a lie, and it’s new, creative, so different from the same old lie approach.
Yeah. That’s the ticket.
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