State Department officials routinely sent secrets over email
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) The transmission of now-classified information across Hillary Rodham Clinton's private email is consistent with a State Department culture in which diplomats routinely sent secret material on unsecured email during the past two administrations, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
Clinton's use of a home server makes her case unique and has become an issue in her front-running campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. But it's not clear whether the security breach would have been any less had she used department email. The department only systematically checks email for sensitive or classified material in response to a public records request.
In emails about the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, department officials discuss sensitive matters in real time, including the movement of Libyan militias and the locations of key Americans. The messages were released last year under the Freedom of Information Act and are posted on the State Department's website.
An email from diplomat Alyce Abdalla, sent the night of the attack, appears to report that the CIA annex in Benghazi was under fire. The email has been largely whited out, with the government citing the legal exemption for classified intelligence information. The existence of that facility is now known; it was a secret at the time.
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pnwmom
(108,978 posts)Not surprising.
The author sort of has a handle on the facts (most don't have a clue) but he is actually a very poor writer and struggles with the narrative. But the bottom fell out when he finished up by describing the 3rd system and failed to mention that Chelsea Manning hacked it and took more than 250K DOD cables.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)then. It seems to me that the government has a big problem with how they are running things. Or maybe we just need to buy new computers?
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)Given they hacked all the OPM files and hacked the Joint Chiefs as well I agree that the government has a big problem. Why aren't we talking about the antiquated system? Also, if I understand correctly most of the devices issued to government employees won't work for .gov accounts.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)since Al Gore worked on them when he was VP.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)She had free access to all the cables, so she put them on a recordable CD marked "Lady Gaga."
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)iows - it was an internal security flaw. But you are right, it was not an outside hack.
randome
(34,845 posts)Administrative foul-ups, both.
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