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Pro-Clinton group: Maybe private server was actually safer
The Hill ^ | 9/11/15 | Katie Bo Williams

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2006; 201505; americanbridge; brock; chelseamanning; clinton; correcttherecord; davidbrock; email; emails; manning; nongovserver; opm; private; privateserver; server; statedept
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To: laplata

Hillary is always a day late and a dollar short of your money. You mentioned it was predicted months ago she would get around to claiming increased server safety at her house, and it made me think of this, also.

You know Andrea Mitchell got the first of three “apology” interviews this week, wherein Hillary failed to apologize, but while discussing her poll numbers, Andrea did remind her of when she had “teared up” in 2008, in that New Hampshire café, after she saw things slipping away to Obama polling and his win in Iowa. Andrea then asked her, “Do you have that same feeling again now, of things beginning to be ‘slipping away’?” Hillary gave some non-answer.

Well, it was the very next day, that Hillary was interviewed by CBS, with Muir, when Hillary’s light bulb must have charged, and she must have remembered Andrea’s projection of the ‘08 crying jag that had boosted her numbers enough to squeak out the win in New Hampshire.

Darned if 24 hours later, after Andrea’s mention, boo hooed for Muir. I mean, it worked before, why not try again.

Besides, it “showed....Heart”, don’t you know?


21 posted on 09/11/2015 9:20:09 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Personal Responsibility
social engineering

Translation: Possible espionage.

22 posted on 09/11/2015 9:27:31 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Personal Responsibility

Maybe this defense is what the “hackers” had in mind. Recall the time Palin’s email was hacked and it turned out to be by some Democrat’s son.


23 posted on 09/11/2015 9:29:12 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: RitaOK

You nailed it down very well. Sure, why not try again? An unknown number of fools will fall for it. But not as many as she’s counting on.

What do you think the chances are of Hitlery being indicted?


24 posted on 09/11/2015 9:32:45 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.bama and Hitlery are simply Evil.)
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To: laplata

I don’t really expect justice. I believe she must be indicted, but I don’t think they will do it, do you? Maybe a plea deal, in her case. Maybe, if she just leaves the race they will not indict her. If however she hangs in the 30’s very long and still doesn’t fold her campaign, they may indict her. HA!

Either way, lingering long under 40 is reportedly unacceptable with her donors, and someone will be drafted, if not Biden or John Fitzgerald Kerry (who served by the way in Viet Nam) get in.

What is your thinking, especially under this Justice Department?


25 posted on 09/11/2015 9:43:41 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: RitaOK

I don’t expect justice, either and certainly not even one of the country club prisons. This Justice Dept is totally corrupt and a sham.

She’s definitely in a bad, no win spot. That includes between a Barack and a hard place.

I think she will hang on for a while. She wants the donors to the Clinton Foundation, and especially the ones who are very unforgiving and nasty, to see that she gave it a shot. She’s going to CYA as much as she can because if goods from the donors were to be delivered once she became president will never be delivered, they’ll want their money back.

The witch is possibly going to stroke out due to the stress and the booze. Slick will probably overdose on Viagra.


26 posted on 09/11/2015 10:32:53 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.bama and Hitlery are simply Evil.)
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To: laplata
I certainly believe that also. I appreciate you bringing up the great personal, political and financial promises that she has committed to donors, both foreign and domestic. It's rather horrifying. And, Hillary actually looks miserable-- certainly not the firebrand of 2008, seen racing Obama to the end, refusing to give up and get out. I remember thinking the General Election would never start, she stayed in so long and even trying to buy off or claw back super delegates to go against their states. It seemed endless, from March forward. In the 30's today in one poll is not a good sign to keep the wolves from her door. But, she deserves an indictment, in spades. Who knows, but Obama/Jarrett want the end to the Clinton machine, which makes things intriguing.
27 posted on 09/11/2015 10:57:44 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: RitaOK

Yes, she will still be scheming while she’s on her death bed. People like her never have good endings.

POS Obama is maneuvering/manipulating it until he can’t be implicated in anything. Then....smack!

But if she can, she wont hesitate to get him, either.

She might have an accident.


28 posted on 09/11/2015 11:09:40 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.bama and Hitlery are simply Evil.)
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To: Libloather

She can’t begin to say her house had anything like proper physical security for a SCIF. Anyone in the game will tell you physical access equals total access. They only think it wasn’t hacked because who ever got to it was good. Then the dopes went and wiped it, conveniently erasing any traces that might have helped ID who ever was listening in. Babe’s in the woods at the Intel game. Talk about the JV.


29 posted on 09/11/2015 11:20:05 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Libloather

One did not have to waste time hacking her server in the bathroom. Just send a check to the Clinton Foundation.


30 posted on 09/11/2015 11:49:29 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Mr_Moonlight

This moron is completely ignoring the fact that some Bulgarian DID hack her server and has everything that was on it. Maybe Gowdy should talk to him.


31 posted on 09/11/2015 11:52:42 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Libloather

The private server was safer because the Rainbow Unicorns made it so.


32 posted on 09/11/2015 11:56:58 PM PDT by Lee Enfield (I identify as rich, cut me a check.)
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To: laplata

One wonders if Hillary won’t really get what’s coming to her, and her little dog, BJ. These global political elite types are not that much different from Mafiosi, I suspect. She’s been selling “the fix is in” for several years and the wrong horse is winning. Lou might be sleeping with the fish but he may have company soon.


33 posted on 09/11/2015 11:57:58 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Libloather

Hillary and her ilk are trying to confuse the main issue here. The fact is that no OPEN interconnected network (internet) is allowed to carry classified information, period. To claim or imply that classified information can be ‘safely’ transmitted or ‘safer’ on a home server is just outright diversion.

There are special set-aside networks and encryption equipment for that sort of thing. Something that would have not been approved for her ‘home use’ without raising some very serious red flags.


34 posted on 09/12/2015 2:26:31 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Libloather

The Clinton server was so safe that the guy who installed and configured it pled the 5th so he wouldn’t have to describe the awesome job that he did.


35 posted on 09/12/2015 2:38:42 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Jorge Ramos is a racist bastard who hates Mexican indigenous people)
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To: VeniVidiVici
"... the guy who installed and configured it pled the 5th so he wouldn’t have to describe the awesome job that he did."

Uh, are you writing from the future?

36 posted on 09/12/2015 5:32:21 AM PDT by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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To: Libloather

How strange that Madeline Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and the ever-incompetent John Kerry have had no such issues. Hmmm...


37 posted on 09/12/2015 5:39:52 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: ThunderSleeps
While the Democratic presidential nominee's notorious server doesn’t appear to have been hacked
. . . nobody would know if it was or wasn’t after it was (you mean with a cloth?) under Hillary’s orders.
. . . but it’s all moot. The real issue is that Hillary is still running for president, let alone that she isn’t in jail. The Constitution is clear:
Article 1 Section 9 :
No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state
During her tenure as Secretary of State, Hillary’s husband has raked in big bucks from foreign states. Under the Constitution that is enough to disqualify her from being dogcatcher.

And the same applies equally to the acceptance of foreign-state donations by the Clinton Foundation, on the board of which she sits as a director.

Lawsuits should be lodged in every state against the Democratic Party and the Elections Board, demanding a consent decree or judgement that Hillary’s name will not be on the ballot, and no Elector from that state may cast a vote for her.


38 posted on 09/12/2015 5:55:17 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: wastoute

“One wonders if Hillary won’t really get what’s coming to her, and her little dog, BJ. These global political elite types are not that much different from Mafiosi, I suspect. She’s been selling “the fix is in” for several years and the wrong horse is winning. Lou might be sleeping with the fish but he may have company soon”.

That’s a possibility.

They can make the Mafia look like nice guys. BJ has been staying kind of quiet, I think. Did you see the picture of BJ on the golf course with POS Obama? BJ looked pretty rattled.

And Hitlery has a history of treating her security details really, really bad. They detest her. Not a smart thing to do with people one depends on for one’s safety.

If one of her security yells “Duck”, he might be just telling the other guys to duck and leave her out in the open.


39 posted on 09/12/2015 6:34:58 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.bama and Hitlery are simply Evil.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

The Clinton server was so safe that the guy who installed and configured it pled the 5th so he wouldn’t have to describe the awesome job that he did.


LOL Good one.

That guy might not live too long. I bet he’s very nervous right now.


40 posted on 09/12/2015 6:37:55 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.bama and Hitlery are simply Evil.)
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