Forget about meaningless Nonsense like Benghazi. You guys are always concentrating on the wrong things, which is why you lose.
This is potentially an extremely Serious Breach of National Security. E-mails over Non Government E-mail servers??? By The Secretary of State? THIS is the type of shit Hillary oppenents need to Hammer, not crap like Benghazi. Another Example of Hillary thinking she is above it all, and doesn't have to follow rules that apply to commoners. She will be very dangerous to the US when elected, but hopefully meaningful stuff like this will derail her.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/u...e-email-at-state-department-raises-flags.html
Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email at State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDTMARCH 2, 2015
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record.
Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act.
It was only two months ago, in response to a new State Department effort to comply with federal record-keeping practices, that Mrs. Clinton’s advisers reviewed tens of thousands of pages of her personal emails and decided which ones to turn over to the State Department. All told, 55,000 pages of emails were given to the department. Mrs. Clinton stepped down from the secretary’s post in early 2013.
Her expansive use of the private account was alarming to current and former National Archives and Records Administration officials and government watchdogs, who called it a serious breach.
“It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario — short of nuclear winter — where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business,” said Jason R. Baron, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle & Reath who is a former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration.
A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, Nick Merrill, defended her use of the personal email account and said she has been complying with the “letter and spirit of the rules.”
Under federal law, however, letters and emails written and received by federal officials, such as the secretary of state, are considered government records and are supposed to be retained so that congressional committees, historians and members of the news media can find them. There are exceptions to the law for certain classified and sensitive materials.
Mrs. Clinton is not the first government official — or first secretary of state — to use a personal email account on which to conduct official business. But her exclusive use of her private email, for all of her work, appears unusual, Mr. Baron said. The use of private email accounts is supposed to be limited to emergencies, experts said, such as when an agency’s computer server is not working.
“I can recall no instance in my time at the National Archives when a high-ranking official at an executive branch agency solely used a personal email account for the transaction of government business,” said Mr. Baron, who worked at the agency from 2000 to 2013.
Regulations from the National Archives and Records Administration at the time required that any emails sent or received from personal accounts be preserved as part of the agency’s records.
But Mrs. Clinton and her aides failed to do so.
How many emails were in Mrs. Clinton’s account is not clear, and neither is the process her advisers used to determine which ones related to her work at the State Department before turning them over.
“It’s a shame it didn’t take place automatically when she was secretary of state as it should have,” said Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive, a group based at George Washington University that advocates government transparency. “Someone in the State Department deserves credit for taking the initiative to ask for the records back. Most of the time it takes the threat of litigation and embarrassment.”
Mr. Blanton said high-level officials should operate as President Obama does, emailing from a secure government account, with every record preserved for historical purposes.
“Personal emails are not secure,” he said. “Senior officials should not be using them.”
Penalties for not complying with federal record-keeping requirements are rare, because the National Archives has few enforcement abilities.
Mr. Merrill, the spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, declined to detail why she had chosen to conduct State Department business from her personal account. He said that because Mrs. Clinton had been sending emails to other State Department officials at their government accounts, she had “every expectation they would be retained.” He did not address emails that Mrs. Clinton may have sent to foreign leaders, people in the private sector or government officials outside the State Department.
The revelation about the private email account echoes longstanding criticisms directed at both the former secretary and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, for a lack of transparency and inclination toward secrecy.
And others who, like Mrs. Clinton, are eyeing a candidacy for the White House are stressing a very different approach. Jeb Bush, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president, released a trove of emails in December from his eight years as governor of Florida.
It is not clear whether Mrs. Clinton’s private email account included encryption or other security measures, given the sensitivity of her diplomatic activity.
Mrs. Clinton’s successor, Secretary of State John Kerry, has used a government email account since taking over the role, and his correspondence is being preserved contemporaneously as part of State Department records, according to his aides.
Before the current regulations went into effect, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who served from 2001 to 2005, used personal email to communicate with American officials and ambassadors and foreign leaders.
Last October, the State Department, as part of the effort to improve its record keeping, asked all previous secretaries of state dating back to Madeleine K. Albright to provide it with any records, like emails, from their time in office for preservation.
“These steps include regularly archiving all of Secretary Kerry’s emails to ensure that we are capturing all federal records,” said a department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki.
The existence of Mrs. Clinton’s personal email account was discovered by a House committee investigating the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi as it sought correspondence between Mrs. Clinton and her aides about the attack.
Two weeks ago, the State Department, after reviewing Mrs. Clinton’s emails, provided the committee with about 300 emails — amounting to roughly 900 pages — about the Benghazi attacks.
Mrs. Clinton and the committee declined to comment on the contents of the emails or whether they will be made public.
The State Department, Ms. Psaki said, “has been proactively and consistently engaged in responding to the committee’s many requests in a timely manner, providing more than 40,000 pages of documents, scheduling more than 20 transcribed interviews and participating in several briefings and each of the committee’s hearings.”
This is potentially an extremely Serious Breach of National Security. E-mails over Non Government E-mail servers??? By The Secretary of State? THIS is the type of shit Hillary oppenents need to Hammer, not crap like Benghazi. Another Example of Hillary thinking she is above it all, and doesn't have to follow rules that apply to commoners. She will be very dangerous to the US when elected, but hopefully meaningful stuff like this will derail her.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/u...e-email-at-state-department-raises-flags.html
Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email at State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDTMARCH 2, 2015
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record.
Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act.
It was only two months ago, in response to a new State Department effort to comply with federal record-keeping practices, that Mrs. Clinton’s advisers reviewed tens of thousands of pages of her personal emails and decided which ones to turn over to the State Department. All told, 55,000 pages of emails were given to the department. Mrs. Clinton stepped down from the secretary’s post in early 2013.
Her expansive use of the private account was alarming to current and former National Archives and Records Administration officials and government watchdogs, who called it a serious breach.
“It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario — short of nuclear winter — where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business,” said Jason R. Baron, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle & Reath who is a former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration.
A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, Nick Merrill, defended her use of the personal email account and said she has been complying with the “letter and spirit of the rules.”
Under federal law, however, letters and emails written and received by federal officials, such as the secretary of state, are considered government records and are supposed to be retained so that congressional committees, historians and members of the news media can find them. There are exceptions to the law for certain classified and sensitive materials.
Mrs. Clinton is not the first government official — or first secretary of state — to use a personal email account on which to conduct official business. But her exclusive use of her private email, for all of her work, appears unusual, Mr. Baron said. The use of private email accounts is supposed to be limited to emergencies, experts said, such as when an agency’s computer server is not working.
“I can recall no instance in my time at the National Archives when a high-ranking official at an executive branch agency solely used a personal email account for the transaction of government business,” said Mr. Baron, who worked at the agency from 2000 to 2013.
Regulations from the National Archives and Records Administration at the time required that any emails sent or received from personal accounts be preserved as part of the agency’s records.
But Mrs. Clinton and her aides failed to do so.
How many emails were in Mrs. Clinton’s account is not clear, and neither is the process her advisers used to determine which ones related to her work at the State Department before turning them over.
“It’s a shame it didn’t take place automatically when she was secretary of state as it should have,” said Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive, a group based at George Washington University that advocates government transparency. “Someone in the State Department deserves credit for taking the initiative to ask for the records back. Most of the time it takes the threat of litigation and embarrassment.”
Mr. Blanton said high-level officials should operate as President Obama does, emailing from a secure government account, with every record preserved for historical purposes.
“Personal emails are not secure,” he said. “Senior officials should not be using them.”
Penalties for not complying with federal record-keeping requirements are rare, because the National Archives has few enforcement abilities.
Mr. Merrill, the spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, declined to detail why she had chosen to conduct State Department business from her personal account. He said that because Mrs. Clinton had been sending emails to other State Department officials at their government accounts, she had “every expectation they would be retained.” He did not address emails that Mrs. Clinton may have sent to foreign leaders, people in the private sector or government officials outside the State Department.
The revelation about the private email account echoes longstanding criticisms directed at both the former secretary and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, for a lack of transparency and inclination toward secrecy.
And others who, like Mrs. Clinton, are eyeing a candidacy for the White House are stressing a very different approach. Jeb Bush, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president, released a trove of emails in December from his eight years as governor of Florida.
It is not clear whether Mrs. Clinton’s private email account included encryption or other security measures, given the sensitivity of her diplomatic activity.
Mrs. Clinton’s successor, Secretary of State John Kerry, has used a government email account since taking over the role, and his correspondence is being preserved contemporaneously as part of State Department records, according to his aides.
Before the current regulations went into effect, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who served from 2001 to 2005, used personal email to communicate with American officials and ambassadors and foreign leaders.
Last October, the State Department, as part of the effort to improve its record keeping, asked all previous secretaries of state dating back to Madeleine K. Albright to provide it with any records, like emails, from their time in office for preservation.
“These steps include regularly archiving all of Secretary Kerry’s emails to ensure that we are capturing all federal records,” said a department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki.
The existence of Mrs. Clinton’s personal email account was discovered by a House committee investigating the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi as it sought correspondence between Mrs. Clinton and her aides about the attack.
Two weeks ago, the State Department, after reviewing Mrs. Clinton’s emails, provided the committee with about 300 emails — amounting to roughly 900 pages — about the Benghazi attacks.
Mrs. Clinton and the committee declined to comment on the contents of the emails or whether they will be made public.
The State Department, Ms. Psaki said, “has been proactively and consistently engaged in responding to the committee’s many requests in a timely manner, providing more than 40,000 pages of documents, scheduling more than 20 transcribed interviews and participating in several briefings and each of the committee’s hearings.”
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5) (b) Agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that Federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency record keeping system.
Nobody on the left will care. They will vote for her if she runs.
5) (b) Agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that Federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency record keeping system.
Nobody on the left will care. They will vote for her if she runs.
Bravo Lawrence: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbcs-odonnell-clinton-using-private-email-stunning-breach-of-security/
MSNBC’s O’Donnell: Clinton Using Private Email ‘Stunning Breach of Security’
by Josh Feldman | 11:52 pm, March 2nd, 2015
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell tonight covered the big news that Hillary Clinton solely used her personal email account while she was Secretary of State, and he honestly found this news both troubling and baffling, noting how personal emails are “only supposed to be used for government business in an emergency.”
New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters said this is definitely “unusual,” but only adds to the idea that Clinton is not very “forthcoming” and “not all business is being conducted in the open like it should be.” MSNBC senior editor Beth Fouhy also wondered, “Where were the State Department lawyers who allowed this to go forward?”
Fouhy said, “She understands rules and protocol, and for her to just willingly violate it just to preserve some semblance of privacy just really makes no sense.”
O’Donnell, meanwhile, was just baffled at how the Secretary of State could be “using a not-secure, commercial email system” the entire time. He called it a “stunning breach of security and said, “If it’s true that she never used a State Department email address, we have something that, at first read, has no conceivable rational explanation to it that is legitimate.”
Watch the video below, via MSNBC:
MSNBC’s O’Donnell: Clinton Using Private Email ‘Stunning Breach of Security’
by Josh Feldman | 11:52 pm, March 2nd, 2015
New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters said this is definitely “unusual,” but only adds to the idea that Clinton is not very “forthcoming” and “not all business is being conducted in the open like it should be.” MSNBC senior editor Beth Fouhy also wondered, “Where were the State Department lawyers who allowed this to go forward?”
Fouhy said, “She understands rules and protocol, and for her to just willingly violate it just to preserve some semblance of privacy just really makes no sense.”
O’Donnell, meanwhile, was just baffled at how the Secretary of State could be “using a not-secure, commercial email system” the entire time. He called it a “stunning breach of security and said, “If it’s true that she never used a State Department email address, we have something that, at first read, has no conceivable rational explanation to it that is legitimate.”
Watch the video below, via MSNBC:
Jason R. Baron, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle & Reath who is a former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration, said he believed that "the sole use of a private email account by a high-level official to transact government business is plainly inconsistent with the Federal Records Act and longstanding policies of the National Archives."
Does anyone believe this will have a adverse affect on Hillary? If you do then I have a bridge outside of New York, New York that I want to sell you.
Mrs. Clinton is above the law and she knows it. What government agency will hold her accountable? The DOJ? The DHS? FBI? Congress?
The answer is none of the above.
When we have an administration that repeatedly circumvents the Constitution and a Congress who repeatedly allows them to do so, do you really expect anyone will give a shit?
Mrs. Clinton is above the law and she knows it. What government agency will hold her accountable? The DOJ? The DHS? FBI? Congress?
The answer is none of the above.
When we have an administration that repeatedly circumvents the Constitution and a Congress who repeatedly allows them to do so, do you really expect anyone will give a shit?
SexyHillDog69@hotmail.com got some explaining to do
[h=1]'What Hillary wants Hillary gets': How former Secretary of State had homebrew email server set up amid a no-questions asked atmosphere[/h]
Hillary Clinton arranged for a ‘homebrew’ email server to be set up whilst Secretary of State amid an atmosphere of ‘what Hillary wants, Hillary gets’.
A former senior IT official in the Department of State told Dailymail.com that Mrs Clinton was ‘demanding’ and that staff had to get things done without asking too many questions.
The existence of the server at her private home in Chappaqua, upstate New York, would have been known to just a close circle of friends as ‘these are things that are not discussed’, he said.
The former official also spoke of his frustration that Mrs Clinton’s actions had deprived the public of vital historical records.
He said: ‘I don’t agree with it. This is history that you are throwing away here’.
Mrs Clinton, who is expected to run for President in 2016, has yet to comment on the row over her private email server, which she set up in 2009 when she came to office.
Federal law requires all letters and emails written by government officials to be retained for Congressional committees, historians and so the media can access them.
However Mrs Clinton did not even have a government email address whilst serving as America’s top diplomat for four years until 2013.
Mrs Clinton’s actions mean it will be harder to obtain copies of the emails through Freedom of Information laws - and could have been a breach of federal law.
The former official said he did not know at the time what Mrs Clinton was doing but said that he was ‘not surprised’ when it became public knowledge.
He said that under her watch the mantra was: ‘This is what the Secretary wants, this is what the secretary gets.’
He said: ‘If you’ve ever met a Secretary of State they are demanding...that’s the reason they head the Department of State. Hillary was no different’.
The former official said that the rules from the National Archives are ‘antiquated’ and say that it falls on the individual to save their emails for archiving purposes.
There is little oversight meaning that Mrs Clinton would have effectively been able to decide herself how she would be presented in the history books, which the official said was wrong.
He said: ‘Once you get into the senior levels of government, anything we talk about is going to be of historical merit, even if it might be minor now.
‘Twenty years from now it could be a major thing’.
- Former senior IT official in the Department of State said the existence of the server would have been known to only a close circle of friends
- He said that under her watch the mantra was: ‘This is what the Secretary wants, this is what the secretary gets’
Hillary Clinton arranged for a ‘homebrew’ email server to be set up whilst Secretary of State amid an atmosphere of ‘what Hillary wants, Hillary gets’.
A former senior IT official in the Department of State told Dailymail.com that Mrs Clinton was ‘demanding’ and that staff had to get things done without asking too many questions.
The existence of the server at her private home in Chappaqua, upstate New York, would have been known to just a close circle of friends as ‘these are things that are not discussed’, he said.
The former official also spoke of his frustration that Mrs Clinton’s actions had deprived the public of vital historical records.
He said: ‘I don’t agree with it. This is history that you are throwing away here’.
Mrs Clinton, who is expected to run for President in 2016, has yet to comment on the row over her private email server, which she set up in 2009 when she came to office.
Federal law requires all letters and emails written by government officials to be retained for Congressional committees, historians and so the media can access them.
However Mrs Clinton did not even have a government email address whilst serving as America’s top diplomat for four years until 2013.
Mrs Clinton’s actions mean it will be harder to obtain copies of the emails through Freedom of Information laws - and could have been a breach of federal law.
The former official said he did not know at the time what Mrs Clinton was doing but said that he was ‘not surprised’ when it became public knowledge.
He said that under her watch the mantra was: ‘This is what the Secretary wants, this is what the secretary gets.’
He said: ‘If you’ve ever met a Secretary of State they are demanding...that’s the reason they head the Department of State. Hillary was no different’.
The former official said that the rules from the National Archives are ‘antiquated’ and say that it falls on the individual to save their emails for archiving purposes.
There is little oversight meaning that Mrs Clinton would have effectively been able to decide herself how she would be presented in the history books, which the official said was wrong.
He said: ‘Once you get into the senior levels of government, anything we talk about is going to be of historical merit, even if it might be minor now.
‘Twenty years from now it could be a major thing’.
