Madeleine Albright: Hillary Clinton's Email Use Wasn't A Security Breach

[riversedge]

Source: HuffingtonPost




"I think she has explained what she's done. She's turned things over."
Politics Editor, The Huffington Post

Posted: 09/28/2015 08:39 AM EDT | Edited: 19 minutes ago

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Monday weighed in on Hillary Clinton's ongoing email server scandal.

Albright, who served under former President Bill Clinton, said she didn't view Hillary Clinton's private server use as a security breach.

"By the way, I went to college sometime between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire. So I didn't use email," she said in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "But I do think that -- I was tough on security and Secretary Clinton was very tough on security. I think that it's important to be tough because we are obviously concerned about hacking and a variety of issues. But I think she has explained what she's done. She's turned things over."

The former secretary of state argued that Clinton, whom she has already endorsed for president in 2016, faced difficulties because "every agency has a somewhat different definition of what's classified and under what circumstances and is it ex post facto classified."

Asked whether she would have approved a private email server for one of her underlings at the State Department, however, Albright said she "would not."

Later on Monday however, Albright said she meant she wouldn't authorize such a server were she the secretary of state today..............


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/madeleine-albright-hillary-clinton-emails_560930a0e4b0768126fe00f8

[Mr Sancho Panza]

1. Why not?

Asked whether she would have approved a private email server for one of her underlings at the State Department, however, Albright said she "would not."

I would like to have heard her reasoning for not authorizing her Deputy Secretary to use a private server.

[riversedge]

8. Seems you can ask her.

[Mr Sancho Panza]

9. Things are not always what they seem.

I don't have her phone number. Do you?

[riversedge]

10. No I do not nor do I want to phone her

[Jesus Malverde]

2. You can't be tough on security

And run a home-brew server. Those tasks are reserved for communication specialists working for the government with top secret clearances. They are trained to manage classified networks and secure communications properly. Private businesses not normally involved in securing national security secrets, are by their very nature, vulnerable to espionage from the Russians, Chinese, the Mossad, or as has been documented Romanian hackers.

Bloomenthal, Hillary's political hit man and confidant had his own personal/non government email hacked by an amateur hacker. (Powell and Bush also had their personal private email hacked). Thats how we found out the deep love the Bush clan has for President Clinton(they call him bubba).

http://www.politico.com/story/2011/03/bush-41-and-clinton-still-quite-close-051669

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guccifer

An ISP out of colorado running servers in it's bathroom is by it's very nature not appropriate for this kind of work. Clearly Hillary has no idea what has gone on with her email server, so I don't know how Albright can know any better. The elite political class is circling the wagons. Albright is basically speaking BS. The only right answer she had was that she wouldn't allow a non secure server under her watch.

[uwep]

3. You have no idea

You are speculating about this. She had a competent IT person install it and a company that was monitoring it. It is funny that no one talks about all the breaches that the government had and how former politicians used private emails themselves. Only Hillary haters will do and say anything about her. She obviously had lied about Whitewater, Vince Foster and now her email. Why do right wing people and left wing Sanders supporters, talk about issues rather than genning up more unsupported BS.

[yellowcanine]

4. Yeah because guvmint servers have been so much more secure of late.....

You really can't be serious.

[Mr Sancho Panza]

6. Interesting take.

When I watched the interview, what I took away from it was that Albright was reluctant to take a positive stance against what Hillary did but in the end still admitted that she would not have done the same thing.

I speculate that the reason "why" Madam Albright would not have given authorization to someone in the state department to conduct all of their business on a private server is because that would have set a precedence which ran counter to federal guidelines about how to handle classified information. Sure, people are allowed to use commercial or private email to transmit government business when nothing else is available. Everyone does that from time to time. However, it's much easier to oversee ONE unified system than it is to oversee several unconnected systems independently owned and operated outside of government oversite and control.

If everyone set up their own personal server to conduct their official government business correspondence, there would effectively be no government oversite. It would render all the guidelines governing classified information useless.

We all know that Killary is a special case. The usual rules do not apply to her like they do the rest of us.

[FormerRepublicanNow]

5. This does not mean a thing because

The former secretary of state argued that Clinton, whom she has already endorsed for president in 2016.

And I still support Clinton, but I do not know how much longer.

[hughee99]

11. Her business cards say "Madeline Albright Former Sec. of State and cybersecurity expert".