Role of tech who set up Clinton's server unknown to bosses at State

[FreakinDJ]

Role of tech who set up Clinton's server unknown to bosses at State



Soon after Hillary Clinton's arrival at the State Department in 2009, officials in the information technology office were baffled when told that a young technician would join them as a political appointee, newly disclosed emails show.

The technician, Bryan Pagliano, was running the off-grid email server that Clinton had him set up in her New York home for her work as secretary of state. But even as years passed, Pagliano's supervisors never learned of his most sensitive task, according to the department and one of his former colleagues.

Pagliano's immediate supervisors did not know the private server even existed until it was revealed in news reports last year, the colleague said, requesting anonymity because of a department ban on unauthorized interviews.

Clinton's decision to side-step the official state.gov email system has since shrouded her campaign for the U.S. presidency this year in controversy and legal uncertainty. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting one of several inquiries into the arrangement, which saw classified information passing through her unsecured clintonemail.com account.


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-idUSKCN0WR00X

Nothing to see here folks - move along now - no story here ....

[ucrdem]

1. He kept her business out of Pvt Manning's rucksack

He sounds like a good hire.

[HooptieWagon]

2. Good thing he's got immunity....singing like a canary.

[FreakinDJ]

4. Some one gave him the password to a "Secure Classified Server Email Account"

and there is only one person legally responsible for that password

[Uncle Joe]

5. I don't imagine that Pagliano had top secret clearance either. n/t

[askew]

3. This story has gotten downright weird and I don't think any Hillary supporter

Can say with a straight face that this is nothing.

Hillary embedded a political appointee in the IT department who drew a government salary for maintaining a personal server. His own bosses didn't know what he was doing and he was completely unqualified for an IT job. The guy is an ex-engineer with no background in IT outside of setting up Hillary's server in 2008. He didn't even report his Clinton income to the State Dept.

And you see the State Dept has shifted from covering up for Hillary to covering their own asses.

[IdaBriggs]

6. Kick. Rec. nt

[pdsimdars]

20. Then you'd be shocked, surprised and dismayed as I was

reading another thread about this and the Hil-bots just laughed and dismissed it . . even hearing it explained by former AG Mukasy. . they dismissed it outright. . .

[snagglepuss]

31. I don't know what beggars belief more - the story or the denial of Hillbots.

I know one thing, if it was a Rethug instead of Hillary, Hillbots would be up in arms.

[NorthCarolina]

7. Is this also the tech that erased the server for her? In retrospect

she probably should have gotten someone a bit more skilled since the FBI was apparently successful in un-wiping her wiped server.

[FlatBaroque]

19. Poor guy, he just used a cloth to wipe the server.

[DanTex]

8. Conspiracy!

[NWCorona]

9. This is out in the open

[DanTex]

10. There's no wrongdoing outside the minds of conspiracy theorists.

[NWCorona]

11. So now you are a mind reader

I hope you are making money of that skill set.

[DanTex]

12. I doesn't take a mind reader when people post their thoughts on the internet.

[NWCorona]

13. It's not the people on the Internet

Hillary needs to worry about.

It's the FBI and DOJ . It doesn't look good either.

[DanTex]

14. She'll be fine. You've been reading too much right-wing propaganda.

Although it's not entire your fault, since DU keeps getting flooded by it from people who claim to be progressives.

[NWCorona]

15. You claim to be progressive and your candidate is Hillary?

[DanTex]

16. That's correct. I am a progessive and so is Hillary.

[NWCorona]

17. Ok

[Warren DeMontague]

36. The FBI just grants immunity for shits and giggles?

"immunity" implies at least the possibility of something from which one might want to be immune. As does taking the 5th.

[vintx]

18. Drip, drip, drip.

[pdsimdars]

21. And might I add

tick - tock - tick - tock

[FreakinDJ]

25. Question is will the FBI investigation be over before the convention

This can't be allowed to play into the General election

[cherokeeprogressive]

22. A question: Can ONE person run a server with world-class security?

When foreign governments and other organizations use literally hundreds of people in their attempts to hack computers, can ONE PERSON manage enough protection to keep a server secure?

The Clinton camp maintains the server was never hacked. Do they also claim ONE person is capable of keeping say, the ChiComs or the Russians from beating them when the other side employs TEAMS of hackers?

[NWCorona]

23. No!

Especially when Hillary's Blackberry connected to foreign cell towers when abroad.

[FreakinDJ]

26. Remember when Kerry said he knew his email was hacked

and that was on a "Secure System"

[snagglepuss]

30. THis gets so confusing. I thought it was hacked. Didn't the Blumenthal

emails come to light because of a hacker?

[FreakinDJ]

32. Interesting ... Hillary defied Obama's orders about Blumenthal

Blumenthal was Hillary's Smear Artist against Obama in 2008 and subsequently barred from Obama's State Department. The significance was Hillary routinely defied Obama's policies and active subverted his policy behind his back during her tenure in the State Dept.

Blumenthal, a fierce Clinton partisan in the 1990s, was the orchestrator of a subterranean smear campaign against Obama during the Democratic primary and was specifically spiked by the White House as a potential staffer for Clinton when she became Secretary of State.

http://gawker.com/5991563/hacked-emails-show-hillary-clinton-was-receiving-advice-at-a-private-email-account-from-banned-obama-hating-former-staffer

Blumenthal's emails to Clinton, which were directed to her private email account, include at least a dozen detailed reports on events on the deteriorating political and security climate in Libya as well as events in other nations. They came to light after a hacker broke into Blumenthal's account and have taken on new significance in light of the disclosure that she conducted State Department and personal business exclusively over an email server that she controlled and kept secret from State Department officials and which only recently was discovered by congressional investigators.

http://gawker.com/leaked-private-emails-reveal-ex-clinton-aides-secret-sp-1694112647

[TheBlackAdder]

33. One person cannot secure a server, and one server cannot secure data! nt

[amborin]

24. K&R

[yourpaljoey]

27. This gets bigger and bigger... almost defies credulity

[Else You Are Mad]

28. Don't worry..

Hillary is above the law and will just spin this as some sort of RW smear campaign. And, please spare me her counterparts in the Bush administration did the same thing, that is not an excuse -- it just proves that our government is corrupt and has no problem skirting the spirit of the law.

[frylock]

29. knr

[jpb33]

34. Hillary knew

all along what she was doing was illegal that is why she kept it from the President and officials in the information technology office. If she truly believed what she was doing was legit then why hide it from those in charge?

[FreakinDJ]

35. She worked behind Obama's back on her own agenda

Funny - now she is trying to cuddle up to the Obama legacy - well at least during her campaign through the South

Blumenthal, a fierce Clinton partisan in the 1990s, was the orchestrator of a subterranean smear campaign against Obama during the Democratic primary and was specifically spiked by the White House as a potential staffer for Clinton when she became Secretary of State.

http://gawker.com/5991563/hacked-emails-show-hillary-clinton-was-receiving-advice-at-a-private-email-account-from-banned-obama-hating-former-staffer