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In reply to the discussion: Majority Disapproves of Decision Not to Charge Clinton on Emails (POLL) [View all]DallasNE
(7,954 posts)People do not understand the key issue involved because of the constant misinformation. Hillary Clinton has not mishandled classified information by sharing with someone not entitled to receive the information. Both sender and receiver have proper security clearance in all cases. What he have are government computers that are far outdated making their use cumbersome at best and sequestration has only made matters worse. When people attempted to create their own more user friendly systems the IT department did not have the protocol's in place to assure that the transmission of data was secure from hacker attacks. That is an IT issue, pure and simple, with under funding at the heart of the problem. You get what you pay for and since we didn't pay for much we did not get much. It is not that Hillary choose to use a private server as a way around the cumbersome State Department IT systems - so did Secretary's Powell and Rice. It is that the State Department IT area did not have the tools available, such as encryption software for the server, to secure such an arrangement and still allowed it to go happen. This is still another government IT failure, making it really a funding issue much like Benghazi was a funding issue with security at an embassy. So this has next to nothing to do with what Hillary Clinton did and a whole lot to do with Republican budget cuts.