Hillary Clinton Wasn’t Adept at Using a Desktop for Email, Inquiry Is Told

[pinebox]

Seriously? Is this the new excuse? Hillary wants to run the country. Hillary can't send an email from a desktop computer? Excuse me but WTF? How the hell are you going to run the damn country when you can't even figure out WTF where the send button is in Gmail?

So out of touch. So out of time. My 6 year old nephew knows how to send a damn email from a computer.
Ignorance is not a defense in the eyes of the law Hillary.

Yet another explanation emerged Thursday: She was not comfortable with using a computer to read email.

Lewis A. Lukens, a former State Department administrative official, said in a sworn deposition last week that after Mrs. Clinton became secretary of state in 2009, he had proposed accommodating her by setting up a desktop computer in her office that would not be connected to the department’s system. That would have allowed her to send and receive email on a personal account, Mr. Lukens said in the deposition..........
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/us/politics/hillary-clinton-state-department-email-inquiry.html

[boston bean]

1. She traveled around the world... most likely without a desk top attached to her hip.

And therefore was more comfortable with a portable phone device.

You know, the kind most of us use now a day?

[tazkcmo]

4. The most of us

That aren't transmitting sensitive government information over unsecure personal devices?

[boston bean]

5. Her phone was not secure? You sure about that?

[Matt_in_STL]

6. Depends. Was the email coming from the unsecured server?

We know the answer to that is yes, because she freaked out about opening emails when the hacking attempts noted came through. Why? Because they came through a server sitting 3 feet from where Brian Pagliano was taking his morning shits.

[tazkcmo]

7. The Blackberry she can't use in the office?

http://www.cnet.com/news/hillary-clinton-blackberry-security-envy-nsa-no-go/

Clinton, now the front-runner in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries, carried on using her personal BlackBerry for state business after her request for a customized secure device was rejected by the NSA. She has since apologized and claimed that she never used the BlackBerry to send classified information.

Apparently it was lacking in some way.

[newblewtoo]

13. Read this link then decide

for yourself.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/emails-show-nsa-rejected-hillary-clinton-request-for-secure-smartphone/

Hillary is rapidly becoming the Democrat's Bob Dole without the distinguished war record, an albatross around the collective neck of the party. She needs to gracefully exit the race while there is still time to salvage the November race. While I would love to see O'Malley back fill for her, I could live with Bernie at this point.

[NWCorona]

17. No it wasn't. An off the shelf device isn't secure. Especially her iPad.

[leveymg]

18. The NSA was so sure that they told her to stop using it. She hooked it up to her own server instead

Now, that's a Crackberry addict!

[Avalux]

21. Well bless your heart.

I'm sorry, but your post is just absurd - using a desktop email system is easy as fuck. More comfortable?? Seriously?

[tazkcmo]

2. I can see that.

Email on a desktop is pretty hard!

[Matt_in_STL]

3. Ah, the "I not smart. I a big dummy" defense.

I can see it now. Great moments in the Hillary Clinton presidency:

"Can somebody let me in? I locked myself out of the White House"
"It's not working. I have pushed this button so many times and it won't give me any candy. Now what was that about something being nuked?"
"Why can't I have Scooby Doo as a vice president? Yes, he is real, stop saying otherwise."

[tazkcmo]

8. "You mean with a cloth?"

Not only is she a bad candidate she's a bad actor, also.

[NorthCarolina]

12. ...

[KoKo]

14. ...!

[Paulie]

15. Omg

[baldguy]

9. So, being an early adopter of new technology is now a *bad* thing?

The State Dept insisted on using a couple tin cups attached with a string to communicate, and piles twigs & pebbles to store their data. Clinton didn't want to deal with that shit, so she did just what her predecessors did - used her private resources to allow her to do her job.

[bobbobbins01]

33. Did you actually read the deposition?

First of all Blackberrys are far from new technology, they're borderline obsolete. Second, she was attempting to use wireless tech in an area where it wasn't allowed for security reasons, and her ignorance in using technology in general had the state department contemplating giving her an unsecured computer with no password at her desk. And you're trying to spin that into her being some sort of technological trend setter? WTF?

[Lizzie Poppet]

10. /smh

[Jester Messiah]

11. *facepalm*

Great. That's just great. E-mail has been with us since before her husband's first administration. You'd THINK she'd had time to at least acquire a passing familiarity with a tool used by over half the fucking planet!!

[leveymg]

16. They'll have to give her a Blackberry with a nuclear launch code button. No . . . don't.

[Sunlei]

19. She will love a big monitor after years of the blackberry squint.

[PDittie]

20. My 90 year old mother can, though.

Is anybody on Team Clinton embarrassed by this revelation?

[pinebox]

22. They should be

She is so behind the times, just like her political ideology

[Scuba]

23. Rec for the sub-thread in which a Hillary apologist gets his/her ass kicked.

[Cheese Sandwich]

24. Very interesting

[pinebox]

25. She is awfully out of touch.

[Cheese Sandwich]

27. Somehow I feel like basic computer skills are part of the job qualifications

[pinebox]

28. They are

[XemaSab]

29. So basic that it doesn't even seem like something to mention

I put on my resume "I'm familiar with Microsoft Word" and every time I put that I feel like I should add "And I always use toilet paper after using the bathroom."

Apparently it's something not everyone knows how to use, though.

[XemaSab]

26. This almost makes it sound like she's not familiar with using a computer AT ALL

My mom's been using a computer since ~1985.

We got our first home computer ~1988.

This is technology that's been around for 30 years.

If this is true, she should be disqualified from the presidency just for being out of touch with the modern era.

[XemaSab]

31. This should be an OP

Well put.

[snagglepuss]

34. PLEASE make it an OP so it can go on the

GREATEST page and get more eyeballs. Really powerful!

[madokie]

36. They are simply throwing shit on the wall to see what sticks

they are running out of excuses and they know we know that and that is troubling her very much. We're on to you Hillary, we know we can't trust you so.

I'm not even sure if not for the shenanigans we've all read about and the use of black box voting and vote counting machines that she has actually gotten the most votes. To be honest with you all.

[Holly_Hobby]

37. Street children in India taught THEMSELVES how to use computers

Come on, Hillary, you can do better than that.

https://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves?language=en