I guess this shouldn’t be surprising when you think about it. If Hillary was using a homebrew server for all her e-mails, she’d have to get State Department IT help to set up the account on a government-issued computer, right? We already know Hillary wasn’t too interested in getting government IT staff mixed up in her personal any type of her business. So why even bother to issue Hillary a computer when she wasn’t going to use it anyway? You think she was going to sit there and do work on it?
No way. Hillary was going to use her own device connected to her own server. You try to get away with that at your job and tell me how it goes, but we all know the rules don’t apply to America’s self-styled royalty:
As the guy from CNET explains, (video below) this only further exacerbates the security problems inherent in Hillary’s makeshift IT scheme. Anyone who’s ever used a work-issued computer understands this. Your employer orders the computer and has it prepared in certain ways to be compatible with what’s expected of you in your job. That will include the pre-loading of certain security software and possible blocking software. And in the case of the government, it apparently also includes a rather sophisticated process for marking classified material. In response to a recent column, reader UCrawford, who appears to have some knowledge about this, explained:
Classified and unclassified information are on separate servers entirely. Information classified as SECRET, for example, would never be processed on an unclassified system not rated to handle classification. You can move unclassified data up to a classified system through transferable media fairly easily (the media would have to be approved and scanned for viruses, malware, etc). But for classified data to move down to an unclassified system, it’s not just about removing markings and doing a virus scan on the thumbdrive…the data itself would have to be scrubbed of all classified references/sources/information, approved through a declassification authority, and transferred to an entirely different portable media (any unclassified thumb drive plugged into a TOP SECRET system, for example, would automatically be classified TOP SECRET and could never be plugged into an unclassified system again). It’s a cumbersome process and most requests to declassify current TS data (which she’s accused of having on her system) are automatically rejected because the chance of spillage is so great. And nobody would authorize TS data that hadn’t been scrubbed to go to a unclassified government system…and especially not a personal system. Would never happen.
If Clinton had multiple instances of TS data on her unencrypted personal server, there’s simply no way it was ever approved for transfer. Zero chance of that being a simple mistake or someone just deleting classification markings. They would have a) had to have been given access to a classified network (meaning they were briefed on proper procedure, thoroughly and repeatedly), b) put some kind of portable media into the network (illegal unless approved by the security officer…which is very unlikely), and c) downloaded classified data to it, removing the portion markings (highly illegal…and clearly explained as such to anyone with a clearance). Most people would be arrested and charged immediately for doing that if caught. In most cases, the server would be immediately seized as soon as it was recognized that classified data had been placed on it. And Clinton would have been briefed on proper procedure about classified as well, and is responsible for the behavior of all people operating under her instructions. There is zero chance she did not know that transferring data to her home server was illegal…procedure is spelled out in every single document she signed for her clearance and access.
