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| Robert Gates: '€˜Odds Are Pretty High' Russia, China, And Iran Accessed Hillary's Server | ||
| 2016-01-22 | ||
| Apparently these countries don't understand that Hillary is above the law and off-limits. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says, "I think the odds are pretty high" countries like Iran, China, and Russia hacked Hillary Clinton's email server.
Hewitt asked Gates, "[A]re you surprised by the news that continues to come out about the former Secretary of State's server and the fact that the intelligence community's inspector general has said there was a lot of very highly classified information on her server?" "Yeah, that's a concern for me," Gates said. "I never used email when I was head of CIA or head of the Department of Defense. As I used to joke, I didn't want to have some chief of station overseas email me and say he was going to do something if I didn't get back to him in three hours, and I would get back from a five hour hearing to discover I was two hours too late. I preferred dealing with people face to face and putting a signature on a piece of paper on matters of real national security and importance." Hewitt followed up, "One of your colleagues, Mike Morell [Former Deputy Director of the CIA], said on this program, or actually agreed with my assertion that almost certainly, Russians, Chinese and Iranians had compromised the home brew server of the former Secretary of State. He agreed with that. Do you agree with his assessment of my assessment?" "Well, given the fact that the Pentagon acknowledges that they get attacked about 100,000 times a day, I think the odds are pretty high," Gates insisted. "And so if they had real time access to her server, would that have compromised national security," Hewitt asked. "Well, again, it would depend entirely on what she put on there. And I just, I haven't read any of these emails, so I don't know what was on those servers." | ||
| Posted by:gorb |
| #15 Back in the days when I had access to that kind of information (on a daily basis, 70+% of the time I was in the military), there was a person known as the Special Security Officer (SSO) whose job was to ensure people who needed access got it, and people who didn't, were denied. It's not just Hillary that needs to hang about this, but dozens of other people who had access to material they probably shouldn't have, and who were not properly vetted -- starting with Huma Abden. If indictments don't get issued by the bushel, there will have been the most blatant ignoring of law this nation has seen in generations. I want to see Hillary in orange jump suits for the rest of her (hopefully short and unpleasant) life. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2016-01-22 22:34 |
| #14 That sneaky Bush! /sarc |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-01-22 19:51 |
| #13 It's a vast gun nut funded, Socialist Conspiracy. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-01-22 17:54 |
| #12 Unpossible. She had a |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-01-22 15:15 |
| #11 The list of potential LEAKER/Violator candidates appears to be narrowing. To pass 'SAP' info or documents to someone else, one would logically have to be READ-ON and have access to the program or programs. Things are beginning to get interesting indeed. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-01-22 13:55 |
| #10 N., yes. In fact failing to mark such information is an additional crime all by itself. |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2016-01-22 13:52 |
| #9 As anyone who has had SAP access knows it is the content, not the markings that determine the classification and handling required. It is impossible for Hillary and those who transposed the material out of JWICS or SIPERNET of to know what they were doing was a felony and criminal each time. Her claim that lack of markings is both meaningless in terms of obligation to know the contents classification and actually an admission of abysmal stupidity if actually true. When will someone of integrity on the left in media rise to challenge her? Or have I asked an oxymoron ? |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2016-01-22 12:53 |
| #8 There's only one solution and that is for Hillary to suspend her campaign until this all gets sorted out. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-01-22 10:42 |
| #7 "I think the odds are pretty high" countries like Iran, China, and Russia hacked Hillary Clinton's email server. Certainly MS and Doubleclick, of course. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-01-22 09:49 |
| #6 Yes Sven, you are correct. A thorough 'Damage Assessment' must be done on each program and potential compromise. If the compromise is serious enough, the program is terminated. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-01-22 08:24 |
| #5 Once a SAP program is compromised, (expensive) steps need to be taken to deal with the breach. Good God.... |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2016-01-22 08:18 |
| #4 If some of the stuff on Hillary's server might have been SAP, does that mean only people read into all those programs are allowed to look for those potential e-mails? Precisely. Program 'Indoctrination' or "Read-On's" are done individually and require signatures and dates, both coming in and going out [as in, 'read-off' to this or that program]. Control lists are maintained of everyone "Read-On"... or at least they were maintained at one time. "Read-On" indicates you are authorized to discuss the program with other personnel who have also been "Read-On" and have a 'need-to-know. This is generally verified and controlled by a SAP Manager. "Read-Off" means you are no longer authorized to discuss the program with anyone. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-01-22 08:12 |
| #3 Even if we knew for certain the Russians, Chinese and Iranians did read it, the one group that will never be allowed to read them will be the American public. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-01-22 08:06 |
| #2 If some of the stuff on Hillary's server might have been SAP, does that mean only people read into all those programs are allowed to look for those potential e-mails? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2016-01-22 07:53 |
| #1 "Well, again, it would depend entirely on what she put on there. And I just, I haven't read any of these emails, so I don't know what was on those servers." No worries, it was only some SAP stuff. We'd have to 'read you on' to the programs again Mr. Gates, in order for you to view them. [sarc off] The positions the Hildebeest has held already establish her as an INSTANT 'high value target' for foreign intelligence exploitation. Her flagrant violation of security protocols and close connection to Huma Abedin, and through extension, Abedin's mother Saleha, along with Saleha's known MB connections make the compromise even more probable. Gates is correct, compromise must absolutely be assumed. Also to be assumed [since she allegedly used no SIPR or JWICS accounts] is that the Hildebeest communicated with POTUS and other senior regime officials via these same UNCLAS systems. Little wonder the FBI has a reported 150 agents assigned to this case, the roots of compromise could potentially be endless. One must wonder what these 150 agents might be attending to if not diverted to cover this investigation. Even more troubling is the inattention [or denial] by our own very large 'Cyber-Security' apparatus. Gates admitted 100k hacker hits per day which provides not only frequency but origins as well, along with a vector to the type of information sought, ie, foreign intelligence 'gaps.' Aside from the untold cost of years of compromise of data through foreign exploitation, our entire communications security system and enforcement mechanisms are now effectively gutted and made useless. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-01-22 04:37 |