Hillary Clinton’s email controversy reached a new level today when new reports “surfaced that the former secretary of State relied on her own “homebrew” computer server to send and receive messages, despite apparent security warnings from government officials.” The National Journal,
The decision for a high-ranking government official to create a separate email service is something usually reserved for computer geeks and hackers worried about privacy and surveillance. But Clinton’s decision to forgo either a government or commercial email account is further stoking concerns that the nation’s former top diplomat may have been reckless about securing her communications…
So far, Clinton has been mum on the controversy, although her aides and the State Department have attempted to downplay the furor by saying no classified information was ever transmitted over email and instead always communicated in person, over phone or secure videolink—an assertion her critics have found highly improbable…
Barton Gellman, a reporter for The Washington Post who has access to the Snowden files, tweeted Wednesday that “it is not possible for a high-value target to secure a home-managed email server.”
Adding to Clinton’s email woes are new reports that Clinton was warned by State Department technology experts about the potential security vulnerabilities of using a private email service. But that “those fears fell on deaf ears,” according to Al Jazeera America, which cited an unnamed State employee.
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