DC_Vol
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I run a fortune 10,000 or so company and using personal email for company business is a 1 time no warning firing offense.
You don't want someone prospecting for business off the record from their backdoorbandit1986@hotmail.com account? I don't get it.
President Barack Obama signed a bill last year that bans the use of private email accounts by government officials unless they retain copies of messages in their official account or forward copies to their government accounts within 20 days.
Its worth remembering, a former Clinton administration staffer assured me quickly on Twitter, that Hillary didnt have email until she was in her forties. She was clueless. Cooke wrote. I just mean, he added, desperately, that shes no dummy except possibly with computers where she kinda is.
Regarding the security aspect, what would make a State Department email safer than a Gmail email?
Operating her own server would have afforded Clinton additional legal opportunities to block government or private subpoenas in criminal, administrative or civil cases because her lawyers could object in court before being forced to turn over any emails. And since the Secret Service was guarding Clinton's home, an email server there would have been well protected from theft or a physical hacking.
But homemade email servers are generally not as reliable, secure from hackers or protected from fires or floods as those in commercial data centers. Those professional facilities provide monitoring for viruses or hacking attempts, regulated temperatures, off-site backups, generators in case of power outages, fire-suppression systems and redundant communications lines.
This is just too funny. When the story broke earlier today, the accusation was that she broke the law. As the hours wore on, and the far right shriek machine realized she didn't, it shifted to be that, MAYBE, just MAYBE, she compromised national security by doing it.
No evidence.
Just speculation.
And a new theory when the first one blew up in their face.
I never thought this was a criminal issue. If someone thought that, they were simply hyperventilating.
But she absolutely compromised national security by conducting official State business through an unencrypted email account. Whether anyone took advantage of the compromise is unknown, and may never be known. But the compromise occurred, and that's not arguable.
It was unclear whom Clinton hired to set up or maintain her private email server, which the AP traced to a mysterious identity, Eric Hoteham. That name does not appear in public records databases, campaign contribution records or Internet background searches. Hoteham was listed as the customer at Clintons $1.7 million home on Old House Lane in Chappaqua in records registering the Internet address for her email server since August 2010.
The Hoteham personality also is associated with a separate email server, presidentclinton.com, and a non-functioning website, wjcoffice.com, all linked to the same residential Internet account as Mrs. Clintons email server. The former presidents full name is William Jefferson Clinton.