Now, be fair, Maedhros. Obama is prosecuting LEAKERS, not employees who, (Reply #41)

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Hortensis (51,708 posts)

41. Now, be fair, Maedhros. Obama is prosecuting LEAKERS, not employees who,

as part of their jobs, pass information to valid receivers by phone (breaking a rule) instead of official but slow and cumbersome e-mail.

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It's not the emails. It's the server. [View all]	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	OP
You are going to be one of the last people	upaloopa	Oct 2015	#1
No shit, the thread could just as easily be titled "Benghazi, it's not about what we know	randys1	Oct 2015	#3
Yes, but since the FBI doesn't think it's a dead issue,	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#7
Look, I sure don't need advice from someone	upaloopa	Oct 2015	#12
And I don't need advice for someone who wouldn't know	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#15
It's a dead issue	upaloopa	Oct 2015	#26
This isn't.	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#58
Hardly a dead issue....	tex-wyo-dem	Oct 2015	#79
What about FBI?	840high	Oct 2015	#51
ummmmm yeah ...	cosmicone	Oct 2015	#2
Not my meme.	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#8
Question:	Cali_Democrat	Oct 2015	#4
Question	99Forever	Oct 2015	#5
Yes - because he exposed the problems.	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#10
It is the same thing that IT has to fight executives over. The executives want the "I AM BOSS"	LiberalArkie	Oct 2015	#6
And, yet, the Hillary fans think this is some sort of witch hunt.	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#13
I do know the their IT is covering his ass for some reason. I think it was set up for the	LiberalArkie	Oct 2015	#18
The IT guy is in actual legal jeopardy.	jeff47	Oct 2015	#22
Yea, I think that is why he is taking the 5th. (And probably fifth of Crown or Jack Black also)	LiberalArkie	Oct 2015	#25
Got it: E-mails clean, so attack her on the server.	Hortensis	Oct 2015	#9
I've never cared about Benghazi or her emails.	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#11
+1. I didn't get interested in this until the IT guy started talking about taking the Fifth. n/t	winter is coming	Oct 2015	#76
Next you will tell us her home alarm system was the problem.	randys1	Oct 2015	#77
I work in corporate security for a large financial institution, dealing with cyber-incidents	Maedhros	Oct 2015	#14
Thank you.	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#17
This is why I consider Hillary supporters to be my political opponents, in a larger sense	Maedhros	Oct 2015	#20
Let me get this straight.	yallerdawg	Oct 2015	#30
I know this to be true because	AtomicKitten	Oct 2015	#52
Good point.	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#61
Not every technical expert assumes the server ex- President Clinton had installed	Hortensis	Oct 2015	#23
Hillary's private server existed outside administrative control.	Maedhros	Oct 2015	#32
A standard assumption, but is it valid in this particular case?	Hortensis	Oct 2015	#38
I agree, this incident reveals an egregious failure by the Obama Administration	Maedhros	Oct 2015	#40
Now, be fair, Maedhros. Obama is prosecuting LEAKERS, not employees who,	Hortensis	Oct 2015	#41
In my job, I investigate people "who pass information to valid receivers" with no ill intent,	Maedhros	Oct 2015	#43
Noted, but irrelevant. Your intimation that Obama is prosecuting sloppy	Hortensis	Oct 2015	#44
Not my intimation at all.	Maedhros	Oct 2015	#46
NSA "whistleblower" Tom Drake is equivalent to a clerk confirming	Hortensis	Oct 2015	#50
How does a clerk confirming a lunch date by phone relate to this issue?	Maedhros	Oct 2015	#53
Let's both do that, shall we? Lots of other good stuff to take on out there. :)	Hortensis	Oct 2015	#54
I do agree that this email/server issue is not a factor in my choice of who to support.	Maedhros	Oct 2015	#56
Oh, I so understand that. I'm guessing as a security professional	Hortensis	Oct 2015	#60
Same here.	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#64
CALL CONGRESS!	OilemFirchen	Oct 2015	#63
This is HUGH!!!1111	ronnykmarshall	Oct 2015	#70
Yes. It is valid.	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#62
Precisely, Hillary privatized the top official in the State Department's server.	Uncle Joe	Oct 2015	#16
This comes to mind..	DCBob	Oct 2015	#19
The horse just left the stable a couple of weeks ago.	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#66
So Hillary's lack of cyber security skills means she would not be a good President??	DCBob	Oct 2015	#83
I still don't give a shit!	JRLeft	Oct 2015	#21
Yet you would have howled to the sky if this had happened to Condoleeza Rice.[n/t]	Maedhros	Oct 2015	#33
I don't even like Hillary. There are plenty of reasons to not like her this is a waste of time and	JRLeft	Oct 2015	#37
Personally, I see this more as a failure by the Obama Administration for allowing this to happen.	Maedhros	Oct 2015	#39
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Oct 2015	#24
I'm a security professional. My professional judgement in this incidence	Maedhros	Oct 2015	#35
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Oct 2015	#48
Bravo.	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#65
I was against using unofficial email when the Bush crew was doing it. And now too.	arcane1	Oct 2015	#27
"Hillary Rodham Clinton's home basement"	jberryhill	Oct 2015	#28
Better than keeping it out in the tool shed I suppose. nt	Cheese Sandwich	Oct 2015	#78
When the story starts with a falsehood, in the first sentence,	Agnosticsherbet	Oct 2015	#29
Gulp!	oasis	Oct 2015	#31
Here we go again.	Dr Hobbitstein	Oct 2015	#34
Well, I started at this goal post.	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#69
Keep on keeping on.	Dr Hobbitstein	Oct 2015	#84
You're wasting your time on people that have probably never installed and configured an OS before..	frylock	Oct 2015	#36
They probably think hardening a server is akin to sitting fudge	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#68
Well now I'm hungry for fudge!	frylock	Oct 2015	#80
Keep moving those goal posts	workinclasszero	Oct 2015	#42
Given how many times the federal government sites have been hacked in the last few	OregonBlue	Oct 2015	#45
Yes, it is.	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#71
Perhaps the Republicans can hire you to look into this.	hrmjustin	Oct 2015	#47
I wouldn't be surprised if my company doesn't get consulted.	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#72
Chomping at the bits I see.	hrmjustin	Oct 2015	#75
No thanks	Dem2	Oct 2015	#49
Bernie	BainsBane	Oct 2015	#55
I am, too.	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#74
Lets just wait to see what happens	jfern	Oct 2015	#57
"When all you have is a hammer the whole world looks like a nail."	DemocratSinceBirth	Oct 2015	#59
You don't give two tugs of a dead dog's dick	Codeine	Oct 2015	#67
Except that I happen to work for a cyber security firm.	Fawke Em	Oct 2015	#73
Whatever it is	matt819	Oct 2015	#81
How niceto see the partisan political attacks, tax paid carried out right her on DU.	Todays_Illusion	Oct 2015	#82

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