Emails: Clinton sought secure smartphone, rebuffed by NSA

[kpete]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly released emails show a 2009 request to issue a secure government smartphone to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was denied by the National Security Agency.

A month later, she began using private email accounts accessed through her BlackBerry to exchange messages with her top aides.

The messages made public Wednesday were obtained by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal advocacy group that has filed numerous lawsuits seeking the release of federal documents related to Clinton's tenure as the nation's top diplomat.

The Democratic presidential front-runner has come under intense scrutiny for her decision to use a private email server located in the basement of her New York home to route messages, including some containing sensitive information. Security experts have raised concern the arrangement could have left the messages vulnerable to attack by hackers, including those working for foreign intelligence agencies.

http://bigstory.ap.org/260d4ff55af34d969a2e27ae8d8f1c7b

[peacebird]

1. I want Huma's emails, from her Clinton Foundation work while working for Sec of State Clinton

I bet there is some pretty interesting stuff there re:donations from Saudis and weapons sales approved by Clinton

[leftofcool]

2. More email bullshit?

[vdogg]

3. So Hillary seeking a secure way to transmit information is a scandal?

Just wanna make sure I keep my memes straight.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

4. WTF? Obviously not. When you're told, "No you can't" you don't then decide

to use the phone you suspect isn't secure, instead. Obviously.

[kwassa]

7. And what exactly is she supposed to do? This is the NSA's fault.

Clinton should stop doing her job as Secretary of State?

[B2G]

8. She was supposed to use the secure equipment and networks provided.

It's not rocket science.

[kwassa]

9. From foreign countries? Exactly how is that supposed to work?

[B2G]

10. Are you proposing that the State Department

had no way to provide the Secretary of State with the ability to receive foreign emails via a secure connection?

Seriously?

[kwassa]

11. I propose they may not have a safe way that works well ...

A good friend was on Bill Clinton's White House staff, and used to continuously complain how bad the email service was there. Getting things fixed took forever, too. The service was much less than what was available commercially.

I've also heard, hear on DU, from people that worked at State how bad it was there, too.

[B2G]

12. Maybe you missed this.

A former top aide to Hillary Clinton rejected the prospect of having the former secretary of State switch from her private email setup to one managed by the State Department, according to a new email released this week.

In 2011, then-State Department executive secretary Stephen Mull told Clinton’s longtime aide Huma Abedin that he was working on a replacement Blackberry when Clinton’s began to malfunction, possibly as a result of problems with her personal email server.

“We will prepare two versions for her to use — one with an operating State Department email account (which would mask her identity, but which would also be subject to [Freedom of Information Act] requests), and another which would just have phone and internet capability,” he wrote in the Aug. 30, 2011, email.

“We’re working with Monica [Hanley] to hammer out the details of what will best meet the Secretary’s needs,” he added, referring to another Clinton aide.

Mull’s suggestion came at Clinton’s request, he wrote, indicating that the former secretary of State had asked for a State Department-issued Blackberry.

However, Abedin dismissed the idea of using a Blackberry with a state.gov email address.

The suggestion “doesn’t make a whole lot of sense,” she wrote, without further explanation.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/266284-email-clinton-aide-rejected-idea-of-govt-email

[kwassa]

13. I am not understanding what this has to do with anything that I have said.

[B2G]

14. They offered her the same device Obama used (a Blackberry)

to access her secure emails on the .gov servers and she turned it down.

Why?

[Kingofalldems]

5. Boom. Case closed republicans.

Why do Democrats believe the fake scandals the repubs dream up?

[B2G]

6. "Case closed"??

How do you get THAT from this article?