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Spicer cracking down on White House staff to prevent leaks: report
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/spicer-cracking-down-on-white-house-staff-to-prevent-leaks-report/ar-AAnskIo?li=AA5a8k&ocid=spartanntp ^ | February 26, 2017 | Paulina Firozi

Posted on 02/26/2017 12:41:03 PM PST by Pinkbell

White House press secretary Sean Spicer is reportedly ramping up security measures to try to prevent leaks. The effort includes checks of both government-issued and personal electronic devices for White House staffers, according to Politico.

Politico reported that details of a meeting with several of Spicer's communications staffers had been leaked.

He reportedly assembled the group in his office, where he conducted the phone checks, monitored by White House attorneys, and discussed his frustrations with the leaks that have been revealed in news reports.

He also warned his staffers about leaking the details of the phone checks and new security measures.

During the same meeting, Spicer chided his staff for using encrypted messaging apps, such as Confide and Signal, that automatically delete messages and violate the Federal Records Act, according to the report.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: leaks; spicer; trump
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To: Pinkbell

Troll them, identify them, fire them, and prosecute them -in that order.


21 posted on 02/26/2017 2:36:54 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: DesertRhino

If they are using those programs, any decent hacker should be able to probe and identify the devices that have them installed. Take it from there.


22 posted on 02/26/2017 2:39:27 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: John S Mosby

At that level absolutely NO PERSONAL DEVICES ALLOWED!!! Only govey approved and purchased equipment should be carried and used by the staff!! This needs to be checked at security coming into the buildings.


23 posted on 02/26/2017 2:45:47 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: DesertRhino

BINGO!!! Call them into a meeting, bring in security, direct all staffers to touch and face the wall, take and check all devices. Any unapproved apps is immediate termination!! This should be randomly performed frequently!!


24 posted on 02/26/2017 2:49:11 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: tiki

But they could of course still leak as soon as they leave the building.


25 posted on 02/26/2017 3:05:05 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: bigbob

They certainly now know not to bring phones with said apps in to work.


26 posted on 02/26/2017 3:05:53 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Pinkbell
Spicer's great. Go Sean!!


27 posted on 02/26/2017 3:16:19 PM PST by 4Liberty (DEMOCRATS- Exporting Jobs, Importing Votes.)
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To: 4Liberty
LOL.....Fake, but funny as heck 😂
28 posted on 02/26/2017 3:17:51 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Jane Long

It is?? too bad. Sounds like something President Reagan would have “tweeted”... :oD


29 posted on 02/26/2017 3:22:46 PM PST by 4Liberty (DEMOCRATS- Exporting Jobs, Importing Votes.)
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To: 4Liberty

Yeah...check the name....Sean SPICIER.


30 posted on 02/26/2017 3:26:52 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Pinkbell

NSA should be on them 24/7 for a while.


31 posted on 02/26/2017 3:31:37 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Pinkbell

Give them a lie detector test. If they refuse to take it, fire them.

I had to take one to get hired at a high end luxury apparel store. The need for one at the WH exceeds the one I had to take.


32 posted on 02/26/2017 3:42:49 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: All

All high level White House staff, and all staff who have access to TS-SCI, should be polygraphed yearly.

If they fail they should lose their position and be investigated. If they are convicted of leaking classified information they should be shot. This isn’t complicated.


33 posted on 02/26/2017 4:14:21 PM PST by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: 9YearLurker

True, I’m just disgusted with the traitors. I realize that while all the contention is going on President Trump is hard at work MAGA.


34 posted on 02/26/2017 5:05:53 PM PST by tiki
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To: jjotto
Tongue-in-cheek or did you really go off the concern-troll deep end?

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35 posted on 02/27/2017 3:42:18 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: tiki

Understood.

I think half his problem was letting the GOPe in to run things—they are not his friends.


36 posted on 02/27/2017 4:43:47 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: jjotto

Yep. Could also just as well have tipped off his team on his staff re: the cell phone check.

And really Spicer’s not doing a thing that Priebus and Ryan don’t want. All the VP’s staff suspect too.

The single biggest mistake Trump has made IMO is Priebus, because he’s populated the admin with GOPe types, who of course are not loyal to Trump.


37 posted on 02/27/2017 5:00:34 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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