Showing posts with label email. Show all posts
Showing posts with label email. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

FBI lets Hillary off the hook.

The FBI director held a news conference, live on TV, just a few minutes ago.  Bottom line, the FBI doesn't think they have enough to prosecute with.  They read a ton of emails.  In fact you gotta wonder how Hillary had the time to crank out nearly 100K emails.  She was only secretary of state for four years, call it 1000 days, so that's 100 emails a DAY.  How did she manage to eat lunch and go the can, and do 100 emails a day??
   The FBI claimed to have really scrubbed Hillary's server, recovering a lot of email from caches and deleted-but-not-scrubbed disk space.  They also said that Hillary's lawyers had wiped a lot of email as "personal" and the lawyers did a better job than Hillary, they scrubbed the disk files (over wrote them with random ones and zeros) and deleted them (erased the file names from the disc directory).  Which makes the emails unrecoverable, like they had been shredded. 
  The FBI did a lot of talking about how classified and how many were classified.  Groovy but any secret service in the world would love to read the American secretary of state's email no matter what it's classification. 
  In short, the FBI trashed Hillary and her state department for sloppy handling of classified, but they don't think it was deliberate, and you gotta show intent to prosecute.  The FBI didn't find intent, and so Hillary gets off, not scot free, some of the mud sticks, but they ain't gonna prosecute, so she can go on running for president.  Another tight squeeze for a Clinton, like Whitewater, like Vince Foster, like Monica, like a bunch of other stuff. 

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Hillary takes flak

Hillary, while secretary of state, did all her email on her own email server, located in her house. She didn't use a work email (@StateDept.gov?) at all.  She probably figured doing it that way was more secure, State has been repeatedly hacked, and State  IT people can snoop all emails and leak any that they pleased.  She wanted a secure email, and it looks like she got it.
  Thinking about it, I had, and used, my work email for work stuff, and my home email for personal stuff, chatting with friends and the like.  I always figured the work email was insecure, and took pains to never put anything in email that I wouldn't post on a downtown bulletin board. Like if we ever got sued, the lawyers would subpoena every email in the company, and use anything in them in court. So, never bad mouth anyone, you might need to do business with them sometime.  Never discuss future plans, technological secrets, sales, pay, political infighting at the company, stick to selling the company product. 
   The TV is admitting that Hillary had left State before the more draconian laws about doing government business on government email were passed. 
   I'm not a Hillary fan, but on this email business, I understand her.