4 thoughts on “Hillary”

  1. Knowing that security is a sensitive point, Hillary insists that she never used her email account to send classified information:

    I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material.

    Given that she was Secretary of State, and knowing how low the threshold for classified information can be, I simply don’t believe her. But beyond that, how about the emails she received? Did no one ever send her anything that was classified? Again, it seems inconceivable that this could be true. Her email traffic can’t possibly be that inconsequential; the Blumenthal emails, for example, may have been of considerable interest to foreign powers even though Blumenthal is a private citizen and they were not classified.

    Given that she was Secretary of State, and thus in receipt of a daily briefing containing the condensed intelligence information of the NSA, this is the most serious security breach ever. She was one of a tiny handful of people who had “tickets” to every compartment in the US intelligence world. It will be nearly impossible just to figure out what information she might have compromised, even inadvertently. This is a very bad situation.

    1. I don’t know how they handle classified information in the State Department. I suspect it’s similar to how it’s handled in the DoD. The military operates different networks for unclassified, classified up to secret, and Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information. They’re called NIPRNET, SIPRNET, and JWICS respectively. You have to have separate accounts and computers for each network because multi-level security is a real challenge. I highly doubt the State Department mixes unclassified and classified information on the same network and email accounts.

      That said, what she did is still wrong.

      1. She didn’t need to have actual classified electronic documents to blab things that shouldn’t have been blabbed. In fact, without such documents even she would have trouble remembering which information was and which wasn’t classified as she was emailing. That is what makes this so serious. There’s no way to know what might have been compromised, even (or especially) inadvertently. And getting a daily briefing in which she got SCI information from every compartment, she would have a great deal of opportunity to slip up.

  2. Because she imagines the traditional smoke and mirrors will work in the 21st century.

    It worked twice for Obama. Why not Clinton?

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