Colin Powell emailed Hillary Clinton: “Be very careful. I got around it all by not saying much.”

[kpete]

https://twitter.com/mviser/status/771770957933469697
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/clinton-blackberry-colin-powell-227691

[anamandujano]

1. Why does the gov't make it so difficult for someone with a critically important job

to be able to communicate and know that everything is secure? Why not issue a secure server with the job?

Maybe I'm not understanding the situation. Could someone explain it to me.

I read elsewhere that she asked for a secure server when taking on the job and was denied. Then she did the best she could. What am I missing?

[pamela]

2. That's what I don't understand.

I think what this whole thing really highlights is how seriously deficient our government is tech-wise. I always pictured the Secretary of State entering her office the first day and being handed a a highly secure smartphone that isn't even on the market yet and maybe a shoe phone. (I thought those brooches Hillary and Albright always wore we're probably tech devices with capabilities we could only imagine.) As for her home, I pictured a mini-situation room set up by some of the top techies in the business and so secure that any government business could be conducted without the SoS having to give it a second thought.

Ok, I'm kidding about the shoe phone and brooches but seriously, every tech story out of the government sounds like they are behind the times when I honestly thought they'd have state of the art tech and a whole team to set it up and advise the SoS, President, V.P, etc. There never should have been a question about what she would use because there should have been a secure set-up ready to go that met both her personal and professional needs at home, in the office and on-the-go.

[pnwmom]

3. I read somewhere that the cost was the main reason. They were too cheap to give it to her. n/t

[roamer65]

5. So Powell is lying. He did, in fact, give her advice on email. N/t

[okaawhatever]

6. IIRC the issue is the timing.He admits to the email conversation, but that was months after Clinton

set up her private email. Clinton claimed she talked to Powell about it during a dinner shortly after she was appointed. Powell didn't remember that dinner.