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Clinton’s Private Server Crashed Repeatedly, Sowed Confusion at State Department
National Review ^ | 09/01/2015 | by BRENDAN BORDELON

Posted on 09/01/2015 6:15:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

New Hillary Clinton e-mails released in a late-night document dump Monday reveal how the former secretary of state’s use of a private e-mail account sowed confusion in the State Department, with government IT professionals unaware that she was using a private — and apparently buggy — computer server to conduct official business.

On February 27, 2010, State Department computer technician Christopher Butzgy sent an e-mail titled “E-mail test” to Clinton’s private e-mail account. “I work as a help desk analyst and it has come to my attention that one of our customers has been receiving permanent fatal errors from this address, can you please confirm if you receive this message,” he wrote.

Clinton did not confirm, instead forwarding the e-mail to top aide Huma Abedin. “Do you know what this is?” she asked.

“Ur email must be back up!!” Abedin replied. “What happened is judith sent you an email. It bounced back. She called the email help desk at state (I guess assuming u had state email) and told them that.”

“They had no idea it was YOU, just some random address so they emailed,” Abedin continued. “Sorry about that. But regardless, means ur email must be back! R u getting other messages?”

#share#“I’ve gotten some messages from yesterday — how about you?” Clinton said. “Nothing,” Abedin replied.

It’s not the first time Clinton’s e-mail server apparently stopped working. In October 2012, Abedin complained to Clinton that her e-mail account “has been down since last night.”

With State Department technicians apparently unaware of its existence, it’s impossible to determine who fixed Clinton’s faulty e-mail system. In June, David Bossie, head of conservative group Citizens United, raised questions about the server collapse and its national-security implications. “Huma is talking about her e-mail being down, about the server being down,” he said on Fox News in June. “Who services the server? Does the geek squad show up and just fix it in Chappaqua? I don’t think so.”

— Brendan Bordelon is a political reporter for National Review Online.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; crash; emailserver; hillary; hillarycriminalprobe; hillaryemailserver
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1 posted on 09/01/2015 6:15:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

drip ... drip .... drip ...


2 posted on 09/01/2015 6:17:25 AM PDT by 11th_VA ("We're not gonna take it ANYMORRRRRE !!!")
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To: SeekAndFind

Agents of CHAOS.


3 posted on 09/01/2015 6:19:54 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Cruz is still my #1, but Trump is impressing the hell out of me.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Server overwhelmed with hacker traffic, perhaps. /sarc


4 posted on 09/01/2015 6:23:31 AM PDT by Qiviut (Stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross; lift high his royal banner, it must not suffer loss)
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To: SeekAndFind

Carlos Danger.


5 posted on 09/01/2015 6:23:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Department, with government IT professionals unaware that she was using a private — and apparently buggy — computer server to conduct official business.”

What a load of crap. Like no IT pro knows how to read an IP address and doesn’t know it ain’t one of theirs?

Please. If it confused them, they would seek the source of the issue. Then discovered a non Govt server on the network. Now who told them to STFU about it?


6 posted on 09/01/2015 6:28:04 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: ClearCase_guy

agents of chaos.

7 posted on 09/01/2015 6:28:07 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: SeekAndFind

Crashed because it was hacked?


8 posted on 09/01/2015 6:28:09 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Clinton did not confirm, instead forwarding the e-mail to top aide Huma Abedin. “Do you know what this is?” she asked.

Hillary as asked a direct question: "Can you confirm you received this message?" Smartest woman in the world couldn't answer this yes or no question? Begs the question - could Hillary even cross a street without Huma to look both ways for her?

9 posted on 09/01/2015 6:35:01 AM PDT by IamConservative (There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“...it’s impossible to determine who fixed Clinton’s faulty e-mail system.”

Ivan? Kim? Chiang?


10 posted on 09/01/2015 6:35:38 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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The Angie’s List rating of Platte River Networks must be brutal.


11 posted on 09/01/2015 6:36:52 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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drip ... drip .... drip ...


I hope they don’t keep putting buckets under the drip and just throw the water out the window as they fill up.

I’ll try to stay optimistic.

The evil bitch belonged in prison years ago.


12 posted on 09/01/2015 6:36:57 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Clinton’s email failure kept her in the dark for days.


13 posted on 09/01/2015 6:41:22 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (RINOs EARNED TRUMP! I prefer Cruz, but someone has to kick their A$$!)
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“Clinton’s Private Server Crashed Repeatedly”

All the more reason for there to be backup tapes out there somewhere.


14 posted on 09/01/2015 6:41:33 AM PDT by McGruff (Trump/Cruz 2016 - My Dream Team)
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To: SeekAndFind
EXCLUSIVE: HILLARY SHARED AN EMAIL NETWORK WITH THE CLINTON FOUNDATION


15 posted on 09/01/2015 6:45:34 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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“Who services the server? Does the geek squad show up and just fix it in Chappaqua? I don’t think so.”

The Chinese military fixes it, they can scarce afford to have their best source of intel off line!

16 posted on 09/01/2015 6:47:33 AM PDT by null and void (Send them all back!)
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I’m hysterical. A poor little technician at the “help desk” almost blew it.


17 posted on 09/01/2015 6:48:00 AM PDT by Maris Crane (,)
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To: Qiviut

That would be my guess.


18 posted on 09/01/2015 6:56:56 AM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: SeekAndFind
I think "Peggy" fixed the server.

Let's not forget also that Hillary deliberately destroyed thousands of emails, claiming they were "private," but with no way to verify that...of course the whole point of having the private server was to avoid scrutiny and accountability so that she could use her office to shake down foreign countries and corporations.

19 posted on 09/01/2015 7:00:43 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Not Angie’s List but some funny reviews:

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=Platte+River+Networks&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#channel=fs&q=Platte+River+Networks+yelp&lrd=0x876c78e86001d215:0xe9515beea8b151e1,1


20 posted on 09/01/2015 7:14:28 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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