Hillary Clinton's Private Email: Possibly a Security Breach

Kevin Glass / Townhall Columnist

 

While at the State Department, former U.S. senator and possible 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton did not use a government email address, corresponding almost entirely via a personal email account - a blatant violation of government rules and possibly a dangerous security breach.

As the New York times reports:

Her expansive use of the private account was alarming to current and former National Archives and Records Administration officials and government watchdogs, who called it a serious breach.

“It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario — short of nuclear winter — where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level-head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business,” said Jason R. Baron, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle and Reath who is a former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration.

Under federal law, however, letters and emails written and received by federal officials, such as the secretary of state, are considered government records and are supposed to be retained so that congressional committees, historians and members of the news media can find them. There are exceptions to the law for certain classified and sensitive materials.

This would be a major breach of protocol and a good way to put government information in dangerous hands - how secure are emails available to the general public, after all? - but it was a long time ago. Clinton left the State Department two whole years ago. What difference, at this point, does it make?

As the New York Times documents further:

Regulations from the National Archives and Records Administration at the time required that any emails sent or received from personal accounts be preserved as part of the agency’s records.

But Mrs. Clinton and her aides failed to do so.

Mr. Blanton said high-level officials should operate as President Obama does, emailing from a secure government account, with every record preserved for historical purposes.

“Personal emails are not secure,” he said. “Senior officials should not be using them.”

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By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

“In June 2010, the cleric was banned from entering Britain for ‘numerous comments’ which showed ‘unacceptable behaviour’ by Home Secretary Theresa May.”

This is how far Abject Britannia has fallen: a supporter of jihad terror like Zakir Naik is banned from Britain, and then to appease Britain’s increasingly numerous and powerful Islamic supremacists, foes of […]

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Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

More than 50 Democrats reportedly plan to boycott the address – including the ambassador to Israel. Obama has gone to war against the tiny Jewish state.

And Netanyahu despite it being politically destructive for him is going through with it anyway. He is fighting for his country’s life. Controversy this hot right before an election is toxic. But he is doing what he must. He is doing he right thing for his country something Obama cannot even begin to fathom.

“He’s risking his political life because he values not just the future of Israel but really the future of civilization,” Mike Huckabee said yesterdat. “The Iranians are just crazy enough to use a nuclear weapon if they had one.”

And Obama the screw is turning...

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