Hillary's server

[tk2kewl]

Why she did it:

Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings, "The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer." [laughter]

—?Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State, (March 10, 1975)

The fact that she had the server set up by an incompetent hack demonstrates, once again, her utter lack of judgment.

[hollysmom]

1. it was set up by the secret service, - it was maintained by an incompetent hack.

[leveymg]

2. It was reconfigured by an incompetent hack at the orders of a crooked politician.

The fact that Pagliano (or was it Cooper?) wiped the settings that the Secret Service had initially coded (directing the server to link with the authorized State Dept. IP address) is legally significant. Avoiding the authorized Departmental system was no random thing, but entirely intentional and thought out on the part of everyone involved.

[think]

4. Never knew the server was reconfigured. Thank you for pointing that out.

[JudyM]

6. Whoa, had not read that before. Thanks for your post, leveymg.

[BillZBubb]

3. That doesn't give an accurate picture of what really happened.

Once the Clinton team got control of the server, they made it do what they wanted.

[hollysmom]

5. heh, it was not meant to imply antything mroe than said

hack is a hack, I fell off my chair laughing when it said the virus definitions were out of date - I Think That is the easiest thing to get right and even that was wrong. a hack s a hack is a hack. NBut you know it was a trusted hack,that is how he got his job, competence be damned. If you are on the friends list, it's a go.

[JudyM]

7. Lack of judgment and also, arguably, intent to keep it under the radar...

Had they retained an IT firm of the quality that would be befitting wealthy heads of state for their confidential/national security needs, or even appropriate for a normal business, that firm would have known that the setup they wanted was improper. They needed people who would do their bidding and keep mum about it.

They are finding, as is the rest of the world, that they may not be quite as clever as they think.

[tk2kewl]

8. yes... i think you are right

they "why" she wanted it separate was clearly to avoid oversight. The "why" it was done so poorly is likely that actual IT security experts would have understood what she was up to and not have been willing to get involved risking their careers and possibly their freedom.

[EndElectoral]

9. Buds forever

[lagomorph777]

10. EEEEEeeeeeeeewwwww!