Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Search Hillary Clinton’s Emails

graphics.wsj.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 156 posts

Re: Search Hillary Clinton’s Emails

#21

Post by douche »

Pyxl101 wrote: post #18
spydum wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hillary Clinton used her on personal email server and address to conduct official business while serving as Secretary of State for the US (she's not the first to do this, Sarah Palin - former Governer of Alaska had similar problems I believe). Two problems (at least): - that is not permitted especially when handling Confidential/TopSecret material. You have to use their services/devices/etc so that they maintain cont…

> all communication with public officials is archived and made public Is that all communication period, or only communication with them while they're acting in their capacity as a public official? How do public officials keep their legitimately personal business private? (E.g., having an affair). Can their personal email accounts be opened up and made public at any time? I'm curious.

> How do public officials keep their legitimately personal business private? (E.g., having an affair)

If there's any grains of truth in House of Cards, I assume burner phones

Re: Search Hillary Clinton’s Emails

#22

Post by orionblastar »

Blahah wrote: post #9

Can someone explain why this is happening for us non-Americans (or possibly just me if I missed some major news event)?

Most government officials use the federal government's email system servers to classify emails.

From time to time someone uses a private email server that they pay for hosting instead of federal government ones. It sort of complicates things when that happens because it is not seen as much secure as a government one. We have laws about classified emails and rules to follow.

Hillary claimed there was no classified email on her server, and that she turned over all emails. The email of the private served was deleted, but now is being recovered. There is an FBI investigation into it that recovers emails.

The Republicans have attacked Hillary over private email use, but Sarah Palin and other Republicans also used private email servers.

I am sure in non-US nations this is no big deal, and you are wondering why it is being investigated. In the USA we want our government to be transparent and accountable for their documents and emails. Have have a freedom of information act that we can request documents and emails from the government on certain issues like Benghazi and the Embassy attacks. But if the email is deleted, how can we see it?

Anyway it has become a political issue that Republicans are using against Hillary Clinton right now.

Re: Search Hillary Clinton’s Emails

#25

Post by comex »

Pyxl101 wrote: post #18
spydum wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hillary Clinton used her on personal email server and address to conduct official business while serving as Secretary of State for the US (she's not the first to do this, Sarah Palin - former Governer of Alaska had similar problems I believe). Two problems (at least): - that is not permitted especially when handling Confidential/TopSecret material. You have to use their services/devices/etc so that they maintain cont…

> all communication with public officials is archived and made public Is that all communication period, or only communication with them while they're acting in their capacity as a public official? How do public officials keep their legitimately personal business private? (E.g., having an affair). Can their personal email accounts be opened up and made public at any time? I'm curious.

The latter. You can still use personal accounts for personal matters.

http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/toolkit/pdf/ID317.pdf

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/04/02/396823...

Re: Search Hillary Clinton’s Emails

#26

Post by spydum »

Pyxl101 wrote: post #18
spydum wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hillary Clinton used her on personal email server and address to conduct official business while serving as Secretary of State for the US (she's not the first to do this, Sarah Palin - former Governer of Alaska had similar problems I believe). Two problems (at least): - that is not permitted especially when handling Confidential/TopSecret material. You have to use their services/devices/etc so that they maintain cont…

> all communication with public officials is archived and made public Is that all communication period, or only communication with them while they're acting in their capacity as a public official? How do public officials keep their legitimately personal business private? (E.g., having an affair). Can their personal email accounts be opened up and made public at any time? I'm curious.

Pretty sure only when they are acting. I believe they can have personal email accounts/phones, but they cannot use them for official business. Of course, we all know how nearly impossible that is to pull of. For which, you'll have courts and analysts just like this, sitting there sifting the wheat from the chaff if it makes it this far.

Re: Search Hillary Clinton’s Emails

#28

Post by ethbro »

dpweb wrote: post #10

What striking to me, however certainly expected, is all the sycophantic drivel heaped onto a powerful person. "You looked fabulous", "we were discussing how incredible you are". Perhaps aides think somehow they are being supportive, but if I were that powerful person, I believe I would rather just a few people I trust to tell me when I'm effing up - than everyone telling me how fantastic I am.

The State Department is a slow organization with internal careers. I feel like you see the same in a lot of other career, conservative, small number at the top, higher payoff if you get there fields (legal, medical, academia, finance).

The amount of effort required to be sycophantic is minor in relation to the past 10+ years of work that your superior could torpedo on a whim.

Re: Search Hillary Clinton’s Emails

#29

Post by SeanLuke »

caseysoftware wrote: post #17
Blahah wrote: post #9

Can someone explain why this is happening for us non-Americans (or possibly just me if I missed some major news event)?

When Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, she used a private email server that was stored at her home and later in hosting facility not cleared for classified information (supposedly in a bathroom). Initially, she claimed there was no classified information on the server at any time. Further, when she was required to turn over records to comply with archival rules, she had her staff delete the personal messa…

> In the current investigation, they've discovered classified emails - some classified after the fact, some not

"some not"? If you are implying that Clinton's server held messages marked as classified when sent, could you provide some evidence to this effect? The Clinton campaign is quite adamant that this is not true.

Post reply on HN