Posted on 03/28/2016 8:10:01 AM PDT by Raebie
Hillary Clintons email problems began in her first days as secretary of state. She insisted on using her personal BlackBerry for all her email communications, but she wasnt allowed to take the device into her seventh-floor suite of offices, a secure space known as Mahogany Row.
For Clinton, this was frustrating. As a political heavyweight and chief of the nations diplomatic corps, she needed to manage a torrent of email to stay connected to colleagues, friends and supporters. She hated having to put her BlackBerry into a lockbox before going into her own office.
Her aides and senior officials pushed to find a way to enable her to use the device in the secure area. But their efforts unsettled the diplomatic security bureau, which was worried that foreign intelligence services could hack her BlackBerry and transform it into a listening device.
On Feb. 17, 2009, less than a month into Clintons tenure, the issue came to a head. Department security, intelligence and technology specialists, along with five officials from the National Security Agency, gathered in a Mahogany Row conference room. They explained the risks to Cheryl Mills, Clintons chief of staff, while also seeking mitigation options that would accommodate Clintons wishes.
The issue here is one of personal comfort, one of the participants in that meeting, Donald Reid, the departments senior coordinator for security infrastructure, wrote afterward in an email that described Clintons inner circle of advisers as dedicated [BlackBerry] addicts.
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I already told you. Because ...
That would be a very long list.
It is much simpler to list everything that Hillary has ever told the truth about. Here is that list in book format:
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