Posted on 09/23/2016 11:15:55 AM PDT by Lorianne
A White House contractor's email appears to have been hacked, leaking material ranging from Michelle Obama's passport to the number of stairs the Secret Service anticipated Joe Biden would be climbing during a trip to Cleveland.
The emails were sent from the Gmail account of Ian Mellul, who is a contractor employed as an advance associate at the White House, and include correspondences with other White House employees as well as with Mellul's friends and professors. In one, the staffer references still being in college.
A senior U.S. intelligence official called the hack "the most damaging compromise of the security of the President of the United States that I've seen in decades, all caused by a careless staffer who compromised information outside government systems merely for convenience."
The emails include: •Detailed lists of names of Secret Service and White House Military Office staffers who were to travel and manage specific site security for the President and First Lady's trip to Havana, Cuba in March. •The White House Travel Manual which includes IT security guidelines for staffers travelling abroad. •The detailed routes for movements of the Vice President on trips in the United States (i.e. his route through hotel corridors at an event in Cleveland). •The detailed schedules and movements of the First Lady on a trip in the U.S. •The detailed schedules and movements of trips for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and former president Bill Clinton. •Names, social security numbers, and dates of birth of some White House staff. •Names, social security numbers, and dates of birth for guests to vice presidential events that were to be cleared by Secret Service (these are regular citizens or staff such as caterers etc. who were to meet with the vice president).
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He never received anything marked classified, so it’s OK.
A senior U.S. intelligence official called the hack “the most damaging compromise of the security of the President of the United States that I’ve seen in decades, all caused by a careless staffer who compromised information outside government systems merely for convenience.”
First Lady’s shoe size ?
Is he going to jail?
And this was probably said without one hint of irony......*cough* Hillary
Fat.
Looking at FLOTUS’s passport... aren’t passports normally good for 10 years? Why does hers expire after only 5 years?
She’s above the law of course. Comey made that explicitly clear.
No, he’ll get immunity.
There was no intent I can assure you. Nominate him for some high office.
Zerohedge discussed this yesterday.
One of the interesting elements of all this is that the guy who was hacked was simultaneously working for the WH and the Hillary campaign.
Needless to say that violates a whole bunch of laws—and needless to say the Just Us Department will at most pay lip service to trying to enforce them—because that might some WH folks would have to go to jail.
He didn’t intend that to happen.
But the question is “did he INTEND to do it?” ;-)
He could not. He wasn’t sophisticated enough to alphabetize.
It’s a Diplomatic Passport. You can tell from the number.
Is it a diplomatic passport? Do those have shorter duration?
There was no intent. /s
Fat.
we like to call them Canoes
Nothing illegal here. The data was not clearly marked “CLASSIFIED” in bold red ink pad stamp, just like in Mission Impossible.
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