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She wasn't trying to hide anything.
She was just being pompous, old hag of a liberal elite woman...
How Clintonâs email scandal took root
Hillary Clintonâs email problems began in her first days as secretary of state. She insisted on using her personal BlackBerry for all her email communications, but she wasnât allowed to take the device into her seventh-floor suite of offices, a secure space known as Mahogany Row.
For Clinton, this was frustrating. As a political heavyweight and chief of the nationâs diplomatic corps, she needed to manage a torrent of email to stay connected to colleagues, friends and supporters. She hated having to put her BlackBerry into a lockbox before going into her own office.
Her aides and senior officials pushed to find a way to enable her to use the device in the secure area. But their efforts unsettled the diplomatic security bureau, which was worried that foreign intelligence services could hack her BlackBerry and transform it into a listening device.
On Feb. 17, 2009, less than a month into Clintonâs tenure, the issue came to a head. Department security, intelligence and technology specialists, along with five officials from the National Security Agency, gathered in a Mahogany Row conference room. They explained the risks to Cheryl Mills, Clintonâs chief of staff, while also seeking âmitigation optionsâ that would accommodate Clintonâs wishes.
âThe issue here is one of personal comfort,â one of the participants in that meeting, Donald Reid, the departmentâs senior coordinator for security infrastructure, wrote afterward in an email that described Clintonâs inner circle of advisers as âdedicated [BlackBerry] addicts.â
Cinton used her BlackBerry as the group continued looking for a solution. But unknown to diplomatic security and technology officials at the department, there was another looming communications vulnerability: Clintonâs BlackBerry was digitally tethered to a private email server in the basement of her family home, some 260 miles to the north in Chappaqua, N.Y., documents and interviews show.
Those officials took no steps to protect the server against intruders and spies, because they apparently were not told about it.
She was just being pompous, old hag of a liberal elite woman...
How Clintonâs email scandal took root
Hillary Clintonâs email problems began in her first days as secretary of state. She insisted on using her personal BlackBerry for all her email communications, but she wasnât allowed to take the device into her seventh-floor suite of offices, a secure space known as Mahogany Row.
For Clinton, this was frustrating. As a political heavyweight and chief of the nationâs diplomatic corps, she needed to manage a torrent of email to stay connected to colleagues, friends and supporters. She hated having to put her BlackBerry into a lockbox before going into her own office.
Her aides and senior officials pushed to find a way to enable her to use the device in the secure area. But their efforts unsettled the diplomatic security bureau, which was worried that foreign intelligence services could hack her BlackBerry and transform it into a listening device.
On Feb. 17, 2009, less than a month into Clintonâs tenure, the issue came to a head. Department security, intelligence and technology specialists, along with five officials from the National Security Agency, gathered in a Mahogany Row conference room. They explained the risks to Cheryl Mills, Clintonâs chief of staff, while also seeking âmitigation optionsâ that would accommodate Clintonâs wishes.
âThe issue here is one of personal comfort,â one of the participants in that meeting, Donald Reid, the departmentâs senior coordinator for security infrastructure, wrote afterward in an email that described Clintonâs inner circle of advisers as âdedicated [BlackBerry] addicts.â
Cinton used her BlackBerry as the group continued looking for a solution. But unknown to diplomatic security and technology officials at the department, there was another looming communications vulnerability: Clintonâs BlackBerry was digitally tethered to a private email server in the basement of her family home, some 260 miles to the north in Chappaqua, N.Y., documents and interviews show.
Those officials took no steps to protect the server against intruders and spies, because they apparently were not told about it.
