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Edward Snowden says Hillary Clinton 'ridiculous' to think emails were secure

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Edward Snowden says Hillary Clinton 'ridiculous' to think emails were secure | US news | The Guardian

Edward Snowden has branded as “completely ridiculous” the idea that Hillary Clinton’s personal email server was secure while she was secretary of state. The National Security Agency whistleblower was speaking in an interview with Al-Jazeera. In 2014, Clinton accused Snowden of inadvertently helping terrorists. Since then she has toned down such criticism and said the NSA needs to be more transparent. On Thursday, Snowden was asked what he would say to Clinton now that she is being investigated for sending emails containing classified information while using a private server. “This is a problem,” Snowden said, “because anyone who has the clearances that the secretary of state has, or the director of any top-level agency has, knows how classified information should be handled.” He added: “If an ordinary worker at the State Department or the CIA … were sending details about the security of embassies, which is alleged to be in her email, meetings with private government officials, foreign government officials and the statements that were made to them in confidence over unclassified email systems, they would not only lose their jobs and lose their clearance, they would very likely face prosecution for it.”
 
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He is probably right. Hillary has to claim incompetence in dealing with sensitive information and/or ignorance in thinking her email handling overall was secure. Either way, not very good attributes to admit to during a campaign for President. And either way, a problem for security clearance and adherence to policy on handling such information.

She is only immune because of who she is, and who apologizes for her.
 
Who cares what he says about anything?
 
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Edward Snowden says Hillary Clinton 'ridiculous' to think emails were secure | US news | The Guardian

Edward Snowden has branded as “completely ridiculous” the idea that Hillary Clinton’s personal email server was secure while she was secretary of state. The National Security Agency whistleblower was speaking in an interview with Al-Jazeera. In 2014, Clinton accused Snowden of inadvertently helping terrorists. Since then she has toned down such criticism and said the NSA needs to be more transparent. On Thursday, Snowden was asked what he would say to Clinton now that she is being investigated for sending emails containing classified information while using a private server. “This is a problem,” Snowden said, “because anyone who has the clearances that the secretary of state has, or the director of any top-level agency has, knows how classified information should be handled.” He added: “If an ordinary worker at the State Department or the CIA … were sending details about the security of embassies, which is alleged to be in her email, meetings with private government officials, foreign government officials and the statements that were made to them in confidence over unclassified email systems, they would not only lose their jobs and lose their clearance, they would very likely face prosecution for it.”
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I do not think much of Snowden, but he knows an email sucker, when he sees one.
 
shrubnose said:
Who cares what he says about anything?
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I do. Without Edward Snowden it is far less likely we would even be talking about the NSA, the Patriot Act, the so called Freedom Act, mass citizen surveillance and bulk data collection, private courts deciding the Constitutionality of Government citizen spying activity, the lengths we go to just to spy on our so called allies, the impact of all this on the 4th Amendment, or just about any other subject on the matter.
 
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Edward Snowden says Hillary Clinton 'ridiculous' to think emails were secure | US news | The Guardian

Edward Snowden has branded as “completely ridiculous” the idea that Hillary Clinton’s personal email server was secure while she was secretary of state. The National Security Agency whistleblower was speaking in an interview with Al-Jazeera. In 2014, Clinton accused Snowden of inadvertently helping terrorists. Since then she has toned down such criticism and said the NSA needs to be more transparent. On Thursday, Snowden was asked what he would say to Clinton now that she is being investigated for sending emails containing classified information while using a private server. “This is a problem,” Snowden said, “because anyone who has the clearances that the secretary of state has, or the director of any top-level agency has, knows how classified information should be handled.” He added: “If an ordinary worker at the State Department or the CIA … were sending details about the security of embassies, which is alleged to be in her email, meetings with private government officials, foreign government officials and the statements that were made to them in confidence over unclassified email systems, they would not only lose their jobs and lose their clearance, they would very likely face prosecution for it.”
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The moment that he steps out of Ecuador's embassy he will be arrested and on his way to the USA by way of Sweden.

His day will come, he's on mighty shaky ground.
 
joG said:
Always ask a crook for help, when you are looking for a sucker.
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Anybody that thinks Snowden should be arrested is part of the problem. The man should be celebrated for exposing what the NSA does.
 
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[/B] The man should be celebrated for exposing what the NSA does.
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He will eventually be brought to justice in the USA.

His day will come, wait and see.
 
OrphanSlug said:
I do. Without Edward Snowden it is far less likely we would even be talking about the NSA, the Patriot Act, the so called Freedom Act, mass citizen surveillance and bulk data collection, private courts deciding the Constitutionality of Government citizen spying activity, the lengths we go to just to spy on our so called allies, the impact of all this on the 4th Amendment, or just about any other subject on the matter.
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Many of the things Snowden revealed were "known" but relegated to the conspiracy theory bin. You saw the same thing with Carnivore and MK Ultra to name but two. What happens next is usually "Oh, that's old news, we've stopped that program/put protections in place" or similar. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
 
Citizen.Seven said:
Many of the things Snowden revealed were "known" but relegated to the conspiracy theory bin. You saw the same thing with Carnivore and MK Ultra to name but two. What happens next is usually "Oh, that's old news, we've stopped that program/put protections in place" or similar. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
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Perhaps, I think the deciding factor in this case was the wide ranging impact of what Snowden told us about. It no longer had to be conspiracy theory level thinking, further backed up by the number of corporations we now know about that participated (for lack of a better word) in the activity.

I am not entirely convinced this issue is settled, even if Snowden is captured and tried in the courts. The bigger black eye on the government is if he is somehow found not guilty. Unlikely, but it would be foolish to rule it out. The charges he faces... conveying classified information to an unauthorized party, disclosing communications intelligence information, and theft of government property... the government is going to have to offer in court that spying on Americans and keeping us in the dark about it was for our own good. It would be the fundamentals for what is an unauthorized party. They are going to have to craft an argument that will speak directly to the Constitutionality questionable actions of various government agencies to date. It would be interesting to see it get that far.
 
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Edward Snowden says Hillary Clinton 'ridiculous' to think emails were secure | US news | The Guardian

Edward Snowden has branded as “completely ridiculous” the idea that Hillary Clinton’s personal email server was secure while she was secretary of state. The National Security Agency whistleblower was speaking in an interview with Al-Jazeera. In 2014, Clinton accused Snowden of inadvertently helping terrorists. Since then she has toned down such criticism and said the NSA needs to be more transparent. On Thursday, Snowden was asked what he would say to Clinton now that she is being investigated for sending emails containing classified information while using a private server. “This is a problem,” Snowden said, “because anyone who has the clearances that the secretary of state has, or the director of any top-level agency has, knows how classified information should be handled.” He added: “If an ordinary worker at the State Department or the CIA … were sending details about the security of embassies, which is alleged to be in her email, meetings with private government officials, foreign government officials and the statements that were made to them in confidence over unclassified email systems, they would not only lose their jobs and lose their clearance, they would very likely face prosecution for it.”
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;)

http://www.debatepolitics.com/break...ams-hillary-clinton-private-email-server.html
 
Anomalism said:
Anybody that thinks Snowden should be arrested is part of the problem. The man should be celebrated for exposing what the NSA does.
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You didn't know, what NSA does?
 
shrubnose said:
The moment that he steps out of Ecuador's embassy he will be arrested and on his way to the USA by way of Sweden.
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I think you have the wrong guy, Snowden is in Russia
 
Anomalism said:
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Edward Snowden says Hillary Clinton 'ridiculous' to think emails were secure | US news | The Guardian

Edward Snowden has branded as “completely ridiculous” the idea that Hillary Clinton’s personal email server was secure while she was secretary of state. The National Security Agency whistleblower was speaking in an interview with Al-Jazeera. In 2014, Clinton accused Snowden of inadvertently helping terrorists. Since then she has toned down such criticism and said the NSA needs to be more transparent. On Thursday, Snowden was asked what he would say to Clinton now that she is being investigated for sending emails containing classified information while using a private server. “This is a problem,” Snowden said, “because anyone who has the clearances that the secretary of state has, or the director of any top-level agency has, knows how classified information should be handled.” He added: “If an ordinary worker at the State Department or the CIA … were sending details about the security of embassies, which is alleged to be in her email, meetings with private government officials, foreign government officials and the statements that were made to them in confidence over unclassified email systems, they would not only lose their jobs and lose their clearance, they would very likely face prosecution for it.”
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He's right. Anything I send over gmail I assume is being read by everyone and their dog. If I want to send anything sensitive I'll pgp encrypt it.
 
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