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What If Russia’s Foreign Minister Conducted Official Business on an Unsecured Private Server?
Powerline ^ | 9/24/2015 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 09/25/2015 11:48:02 AM PDT by mojito

Today Admiral Michael Rogers, head of the National Security Agency, testified before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee on cybersecurity. Senator Tom Cotton asked him two questions, the second of which was brilliant: 1) Are the communications of the president’s most senior advisors, including those that may be unclassified, a “top priority for foreign intelligence services?” and 2) What would he think if he learned that Russia’s Foreign Minister, or Iran’s, was conducting official business on a homebrew server? Here it is:

(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: hilaryclinton; michaelrogers; nsa; tomcotton
Video at link.
1 posted on 09/25/2015 11:48:02 AM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito

Brilliant stuff... makes it clear that our “leaders” aren’t really even adults.


2 posted on 09/25/2015 11:58:44 AM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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What if our own Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was running her own private spy ring in Libya?

Not a government spy ring.

Not a CIA spy ring. Not any of our intelligence services spy ring.

Not a State Department spy ring.

A spy ring run by and for, exclusively (no other government employee or agency could have access to it) Hillary Clinton.

Why, an operation like that could look like a U.S. Government operation since our Secretary of State was running it.

Anybody in that Hillary Spy Ring would have access to our government secrets without any government security or oversight.

It would be the perfect means of PROVIDING our intelligence to the enemy.

Espionage by Hillary and her spy network against The United States cannot be ruled out.


3 posted on 09/25/2015 12:10:55 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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He’d be shot.


4 posted on 09/25/2015 12:15:35 PM PDT by piytar (Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
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To: mojito

GREAT question.


5 posted on 09/25/2015 12:17:12 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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What If Russia’s Foreign Minister Conducted Official Business on an Unsecured Private Server?

"Any idiot can pull off a murder; only a genius can arrange a suicide."

6 posted on 09/25/2015 12:18:37 PM PDT by FredZarguna ("It appears a Kenyan has infiltrated the lumber room")
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To: MarvinStinson

We’d be referring to him as “the late Foreign Minister.”


7 posted on 09/25/2015 12:19:10 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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He’d be shot.

After spending a few weeks in The Lubyanka with a car battery, a hammer, some pliers, LSD, scopolamine, Rohypnol, hot metal, bamboo splinters, a surgical kit ...

8 posted on 09/25/2015 12:28:55 PM PDT by FredZarguna ("It appears a Kenyan has infiltrated the lumber room")
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Can you imagine if Russia’s Foreign Minister ran official business from an unsecured server in his home, and, confronted by Putin, explained that it was OK because his house had a security guard?

Furthermore, would CIA Director John Brennan still have a job if it was discovered that he HAD NOT hacked that unsecured Russian server?

Make no mistake about it, all of our enemies have all of Clinton's secured information...including Iran.

9 posted on 09/25/2015 12:52:26 PM PDT by kidd
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BTW - Tom Cotton is beginning to impress me the same way Ted Cruz has. I think you folks from Arkansas have picked a good one...


10 posted on 09/25/2015 12:55:08 PM PDT by kidd
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He would be sleeping with the fishes.


11 posted on 09/25/2015 1:37:24 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: kidd

In Russia—he would be sentenced to Siberia, have a “Little Accident” on the highway or get invited for Polumdium tea with Putin. In Russia Treason deserves only death.


12 posted on 09/25/2015 1:38:51 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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He’d get a one-way ticket to The Lubyanka.


13 posted on 09/25/2015 1:42:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: kidd

Might explain the Iran deal. Might, scratch that. Does explain the Iran deal.

Give us what we want or we release her emails.


14 posted on 09/25/2015 1:56:50 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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"BTW - Tom Cotton is beginning to impress me the same way Ted Cruz has. I think you folks from Arkansas have picked a good one..."

Yes we have. He was a great Congressman in the 4th district and now a greater Senator. I think he may have his eyes on a higher position in the future.

15 posted on 09/25/2015 3:23:45 PM PDT by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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To: FredZarguna

Yup.


16 posted on 09/25/2015 4:23:26 PM PDT by piytar (Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
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