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originally posted by: WintersHere
Reason For The Server:
Her Stated Reason For The “Home” Server: “Convenience”, 'To have work emails and family/personal emails dumped into
the same account'
So her “intent” was to setup a convenient server combing both personal and Official Governmental
Top Secret/Classified/Confidential Work emails.
Setting Up The Server:
She did not get permission from any governmental security agent in charge of email security and safety.
She did not get advice from any governmental security professional.
She did not inform governmental security of her intentions to create the server.
She did not inform governmental security when the server was operational.
She did hire non-governmental, non-vetted computer techs/ administrators without governmental security clearance.
She did have the Top Secret/Classified/Confidential email server installed in the tech company's/loft apartment's bathroom closet, which didn't even have an alarm system.
Outcome of Setting Up The Server:
A functioning email server for to use as her official-non-official Secretary of State email account that bypasses all government 24/7 tech security, in which said tech security is not even aware of.
An email account that bypasses all government security layers and email archiving.
Took access to Top Secret/Classified emails out of the hands of government security and put it into the hands of unknowns. (whom could be a 'den of thieves' for all she knows)
Questions About The Server:
Was ssh or ftp or other remote access programs running?
What other apps besides the email-server was on the server.
What firewall protection if any?
What OS was used?
Who had physical access to the server?
Was there video surveillance and logs of these people? (doubt it – there wasn't even an alarm system)
Did it have an unique admin login? As compared to other servers at the business' location.
Why where HC's personal assistants allowed access to government emails, without gov. clearance?
originally posted by: Christosterone
just imagine if this was Condoleeza Rice or Dick Cheney...
The mainstream media would be calling for George W. Bush to be tarred and feathered...
. . .
-Christosterone
originally posted by: WintersHere
a reply to: BO XIAN
For me the FBI's recommendation makes no sense.
Imagine treating National Security like that and never seeing the inside of a court room.
originally posted by: Slanter
My question is: Classified, secret, and top secret information is not sent through Emails, So there really should be no need to have a "secure" Email server if you, presumeably, aren't going to have classified or secret information on the server. There is no "secure" email server, so even if she had had an Email server at the state department it STILL wouldn't have been used to transfer secret information. So who at the state department is sending out classified information over Emails?
originally posted by: WintersHere
Reason For The Server:
Her Stated Reason For The “Email” Server: “Convenience”, 'To have work emails and family/personal emails dumped into the same account' So her “intent” was to setup a convenient server combing both personal and Official Governmental Top Secret/Classified/Confidential Work emails.
I would maintain that was not the reason at all. The reason was to prevent her emails from easy accessibility to FOIA requests, which she knew would be coming. It wasn't so much convenience as it was deception and avoidance of the FOIA law. If they were on a private server most people did not know about, those emails would be inaccessible to legal scrutiny.
originally posted by: schuyler
I would maintain that was not the reason at all. The reason was to prevent her emails from easy accessibility to FOIA requests, which she knew would be coming. It wasn't so much convenience as it was deception and avoidance of the FOIA law. If they were on a private server most people did not know about, those emails would be inaccessible to legal scrutiny.
She has admitted to being basically computer illiterate, so going to the trouble of pulling together a server is mind-boggling to begin with. I get that she did not understand the intricacies of what she was doing, so to ask whether she had ssh or ftp or an admin login and all that is really a moot point. Do you think she could tell you what "ftp" means? Me neither.