JEB's "baffling" response to Hillary's email kerfuffle.

[pnwmom]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/jeb-bushs-email-troubles-grow-more-serious?cid=sm_fb_maddow

Hillary Clinton’s private email account during her tenure as Secretary of State has been the subject of enormous interest to the media and Republicans, with former Gov. Jeb Bush (R) helping lead the charge. “For security purposes, you need to be behind a firewall that recognizes the world for what it is, and it’s a dangerous world, and security would mean that you couldn’t have a private server,” the Republican complained last week. “It’s a little baffling, to be honest with you, that didn’t come up in Secretary Clinton’s thought process.”

It’s equally baffling that Bush had no idea how vulnerable he was on the issue he’s chosen to complain about.

Jeb Bush used his private e-mail account as Florida governor to discuss security and military issues such as troop deployments to the Middle East and the protection of nuclear plants, according to a review of publicly released records.

The e-mails include two series of exchanges involving details of Florida National Guard troop deployments after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the review by The Washington Post found.

SNIP

What we’re left with are legitimate concerns about Bush’s judgment. When he went on the offensive on the Clinton email story, did he not think his own, nearly identical problems would emerge? Or was this a case in which Team Jeb went on the attack without bothering to recognize their vulnerability?

[Thinkingabout]

1. My thoughts also. To pass security information in emails is scary.

I have not heard if Jeb's server was as secure as the one Hillary used. I would think the Clinton's would be safe enough for President Clinton to receive security briefings.

[pnwmom]

3. Hillary has stated that she never transmitted classified information

over her email system.

I can't imagine her talking about things like the safety of nuclear plants in an email, but we know Bush did.

[Thinkingabout]

6. It is a lot todo about nothing. The Clinton's reputation is on the side of caution

So I doubt she would have loosely have allowed communication to have been easily hacked. They don't have anything on her so they manufacture crap.

[NYC_SKP]

7. Why would former president Clinton be getting briefings on that server???

He was by then a private citizen.

Why is she shooting herself in the foot with this crap, these ridiculous decisions and horrible excuses?

Two devices were too "inconvenient"?

[OilemFirchen]

8. Bill Clinton was getting briefings on Jeb Bush's server?

That's very odd, indeed.

And whoever she is, I hope her foot heals.

[NYC_SKP]

12. I would think the Clinton's would be safe enough for President Clinton to receive security briefings

Was said by another member, I was replying to that.

[Thinkingabout]

9. You can read information on former president's briefings:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Daily_Brief

Perhaps you did know but private citizens also receive security briefings.

As far as Hillary shooting herself in the foot, don't think so, and the crap part is correct, it appears her server retained the information but the .gov server did not always retain the information. This is a lot of todo about nothing.

[NYC_SKP]

13. No, private citizens do not receive copies of the Presidential Daily Briefings, period.

And Hillary laid the groundwork for her own undoing.

Better start thinking of a new candidate.

[Thinkingabout]

14. Did you read the article? Former presidents have been receiving briefings.you know they

Have security clearances. Congressional members has security clearances also along with SOS. Individuals can be set up at American embassies to receive travel advisories, not as an elected official. There are reasons to receive travel advisories if you travel to other countries.

[NYC_SKP]

15. Nothing I see in that article says anything at all about former presidents getting the PDB.

You're going to need to paste an excerpt because I just don't see it there.

Travel advisories are an entirely different matter.

And, where any sensitive or classified material is distributed to individuals, it needs to be done through government channels on government equipment.

And that didn't take place here.

[Thinkingabout]

16. Perhaps this will supply more info

http://semuwemba.com/2010/06/02/both-the-president-elect-and-former-presidents-get-intelligence-briefings-in-the-usa-friday/

[NYC_SKP]

18. Surely you don't think "semuwemba" is an authoritative source.

And, even if true, getting some intelligence briefings is not the equivalent of receiving "Daily Presidential Briefings" the same as the sitting president.

And all the more reason to pull take the server out of Chappaqua and into protective custody for examination.

[Thinkingabout]

19. Sometimes facts just does not matter, just as the RW is consiidering this to be

The "scandal of all scandals" it still remains a non scandal. Even if she had been using the .gov server her emails may not have been saved.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. "Better start thinking of a new candidate."

"A dream is a wish the heart makes."

_Cinderella

[Chemisse]

2. Somehow it all looks sinister when somebody else does it,

And just as innocent as can be when you do it yourself.

A smarter man would have realized this.

[pnwmom]

4. Apparently he's as dumb as his brother. Two peas in a pod. n/t

[Politicalboi]

5. Baby Boots was truly a dummy

And that didn't stop them. Nor did the press question his IQ enough. They wrote it off as "coining" his own words, how cute. Bush's have a way of avoiding charges and questions no one dares ask. He'll lie about it and we'll move on to other things.

[TheKentuckian]

10. I have no questions about his judgment, it is beyond wrongheaded and vile.

Probably underrated on the stupid meter as well, papered over by wearing glasses and not having a fake/random southern accent.