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On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On 2016-11-08 16:05, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> Republicans have been trying to burn Hillary Clinton at the stake for |
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>> the past couple years because during her tenure as Secretary of State |
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>> she and her staff ran used their own mail server rather than use the |
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>> State Department's email system. [They weren't very good about |
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>> following backup and archiving procedures.] |
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>> From what I've read, the State Department's email system was |
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>> notoriously bad and previous Secretaries of State had also gotten so |
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>> frustrated with availability and functionality problems that they used |
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>> outside email systems as well. |
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> Yea, that is my take on it as well - this was a completely manufactured |
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> controversy. I'd even bet that HRC's server was actually the more |
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> secure one. |
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Well, I don't handle classified information, but if I had my work |
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correspondence sent to a personal email address on a server I |
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maintained, I'd almost certainly be fired for it. |
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The few folks I've talked to who do handle classified information say |
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that they would probably face criminal charges, or at least certain |
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termination, for doing the same. |
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Is this issue HRC's biggest problem? Hardly. Is it symptomatic of |
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the larger issues? Certainly. |
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