Leaking state department emails does compromise US security. Leaking anything classified compromises US security. (That’s why it’s classified...)
[In each year from 2011 to 2014, the State Department's poor cybersecurity was identified by its inspector general as a 'significant deficiency' that put the department's information at risk.
Another State Department inspector general report revealed that hacking attempts forced Clinton off her private email at one point in 2011.
Then in 2014, the State Department's unclassified email system was breached by hackers with links to Russia. They stole an unspecified number of emails.
The hack was so deep that State's email system had to be cut off from the internet while experts worked to eliminate the infestation.
At least 47 of the emails Clinton turned over to the State Department contain the notation 'B3 CIA PERS/ORG,' which indicates the material referred to CIA personnel or matters related to the agency.
And because both Clinton's server and the State Department systems were vulnerable to hacking, the perpetrators could have those original emails.
Stewart Baker, a Washington lawyer who spent more than three years as an assistant secretary of the Homeland Security Department and is former legal counsel for the National Security Agency, said it is 'entirely plausible ... that foreign intelligence services discovered and rifled Hillary Clinton's server'.
If so, infiltrators would have copies of all her emails - unredacted.
Baker points out another instance where Clinton's server might have been hacked.
A March 2, 2009, email warned against State Department officials using Blackberries. Eric Boswell, assistant secretary of state, says the 'vulnerabilities and risks associated with the use of Blackberries ... considerably outweigh their convenience.'
Nine days later, another email states that Clinton approached Boswell and says she 'gets' the risk.
The email also said: 'Her attention was drawn to the sentence that indicates we (the diplomatic security office officials) have intelligence concerning this vulnerability during her recent trip to Asia.'
Clinton traveled to China, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea in February 2009.]
Leaking state department emails does compromise US security. Leaking anything classified compromises US security. (That’s why it’s classified...)
*In each year from 2011 to 2014, the State Department's poor cybersecurity was identified by its inspector general as a 'significant deficiency' that put the department's information at risk.
Another State Department inspector general report revealed that hacking attempts forced Clinton off her private email at one point in 2011.
Then in 2014, the State Department's unclassified email system was breached by hackers with links to Russia. They stole an unspecified number of emails.
The hack was so deep that State's email system had to be cut off from the internet while experts worked to eliminate the infestation.
At least 47 of the emails Clinton turned over to the State Department contain the notation 'B3 CIA PERS/ORG,' which indicates the material referred to CIA personnel or matters related to the agency.
And because both Clinton's server and the State Department systems were vulnerable to hacking, the perpetrators could have those original emails.
Stewart Baker, a Washington lawyer who spent more than three years as an assistant secretary of the Homeland Security Department and is former legal counsel for the National Security Agency, said it is 'entirely plausible ... that foreign intelligence services discovered and rifled Hillary Clinton's server'.
If so, infiltrators would have copies of all her emails - unredacted.
Baker points out another instance where Clinton's server might have been hacked.
A March 2, 2009, email warned against State Department officials using Blackberries. Eric Boswell, assistant secretary of state, says the 'vulnerabilities and risks associated with the use of Blackberries ... considerably outweigh their convenience.'
Nine days later, another email states that Clinton approached Boswell and says she 'gets' the risk.
The email also said: 'Her attention was drawn to the sentence that indicates we (the diplomatic security office officials) have intelligence concerning this vulnerability during her recent trip to Asia.'
Clinton traveled to China, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea in February 2009.*
Leaking state department emails does compromise US security. Leaking anything classified compromises US security. (That’s why it’s classified...)
In each year from 2011 to 2014, the State Department's poor cybersecurity was identified by its inspector general as a 'significant deficiency' that put the department's information at risk.
Another State Department inspector general report revealed that hacking attempts forced Clinton off her private email at one point in 2011.
Then in 2014, the State Department's unclassified email system was breached by hackers with links to Russia. They stole an unspecified number of emails.
The hack was so deep that State's email system had to be cut off from the internet while experts worked to eliminate the infestation.
At least 47 of the emails Clinton turned over to the State Department contain the notation 'B3 CIA PERS/ORG,' which indicates the material referred to CIA personnel or matters related to the agency.
And because both Clinton's server and the State Department systems were vulnerable to hacking, the perpetrators could have those original emails.
Stewart Baker, a Washington lawyer who spent more than three years as an assistant secretary of the Homeland Security Department and is former legal counsel for the National Security Agency, said it is 'entirely plausible ... that foreign intelligence services discovered and rifled Hillary Clinton's server'.
If so, infiltrators would have copies of all her emails - unredacted.
Baker points out another instance where Clinton's server might have been hacked.
A March 2, 2009, email warned against State Department officials using Blackberries. Eric Boswell, assistant secretary of state, says the 'vulnerabilities and risks associated with the use of Blackberries ... considerably outweigh their convenience.'
Nine days later, another email states that Clinton approached Boswell and says she 'gets' the risk.
The email also said: 'Her attention was drawn to the sentence that indicates we (the diplomatic security office officials) have intelligence concerning this vulnerability during her recent trip to Asia.'
Clinton traveled to China, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea in February 2009.*
Leaking state department emails does compromise US security. Leaking anything classified compromises US security. (That’s why it’s classified...)