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Clinton, aides tried to use wireless devices in secure areas
www.washingtontimes.com ^ | Wednesday, June 1, 2016 | By Bill Gertz

Posted on 06/02/2016 10:54:32 AM PDT by Red Badger

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her aides tried to use personal hand-held electronic devices inside areas used to store classified information, according to the just-released State Department inspector general report.

The Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the State Department’s security arm, told the inspector general that in March 2009 Mrs. Clinton rejected an offer from security officials to provide her with a secure government smartphone. “DS was informed that Secretary Clinton’s staff had been asking to use BlackBerry devices inside classified areas,” said the report, released late last month.

Another portion of the inspector general’s report states that Mrs. Clinton sought in late January 2009 to bring her BlackBerry into a secure area. Instead, State Department officials offered to set up a computer near her office desk to check emails, although the report says the stand-alone computer was never installed.

Classified areas are called SCIFs, for “sensitive compartment information facilities,” and are used by officials with security clearances to read secret or top-secret intelligence and other classified information. Security rules prohibit bringing in electronic devices like smartphones that could be used to photograph or copy secret documents or to take notes.

The facilities also are protected against external eavesdropping, and those entering are required to leave all phones and other hand-held electronic devices outside.

The report does not say whether Mrs. Clinton or her aides violated the ban on using smartphones inside the SCIFs. However, if she or her aides improperly used their BlackBerrys inside the SCIF, it could explain how classified information ended up on Mrs. Clinton’s private email server.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 200901; 201101; 201103; blackberry; blackberrys; clinton; clintongate; hackers; hacking; hillaryclinton; scif; scifs; soshillary; statedepartment
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To: Red Badger

I’m sure the FBI has done this.

Look at the SCIF logs to determine the times that Huma, Cheryl Mills and others were there, and compare that to their phone records (text and voice) to emails to determine who leaked what and when.

Compare all that to donations to the Clinton Foundation and Bill’s paid speeches and there you have it.

No wonder they need so many FBI agents on this.


21 posted on 06/02/2016 11:50:27 AM PDT by Vic S
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To: Doogle

2003.

I’ve always believe Hillary’s private server was a more eloquent solution for her, than using Sandy Burlar’s socks, for hiding the people’s business from the people.


22 posted on 06/02/2016 11:52:22 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: ReaganGeneration2
Wait for the “everyone takes one inside” excuse.

The facilities also are protected against external eavesdropping, and those entering are required to leave all phones and other hand-held electronic devices outside.

23 posted on 06/02/2016 11:54:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!..........................)
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To: Vic S

They must have been written in CURSIVE..........................


24 posted on 06/02/2016 11:54:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!..........................)
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To: HarleyLady27

Whatever goes on to the Internet, STAYS ON THE INTERNET..........................


25 posted on 06/02/2016 11:56:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!..........................)
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To: chit*chat

Why would she need it? She’ll be with her peeps....................


26 posted on 06/02/2016 11:56:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!..........................)
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To: Pollster1

Laws, rules and regulations are for the peons, not for the elite-ists.........................


27 posted on 06/02/2016 11:57:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!..........................)
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To: Steely Tom

They are usually protected with a Faraday cage, cell phones would not work.


28 posted on 06/02/2016 12:03:34 PM PDT by Bruce Kurtz
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To: rdl6989

Did Berger ever return the documents he stole??


29 posted on 06/02/2016 12:04:58 PM PDT by doberville
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To: arthurus

Yes, from the beginning of this whole thing.


30 posted on 06/02/2016 12:06:11 PM PDT by kevslisababy (I am a Genuine Female: No after market parts.)
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To: doberville

I don’t think so the docs were ever found.


31 posted on 06/02/2016 12:17:43 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

What’s interesting about the Millennium plot is that it involved simultaneous attacks- one on the LAX airport in Los Angeles, and another in a hotel in Jordan , maybe more attacks.

The attack in Jordan was to be carried out by a terrorist group headed by Zarqawi.

Who is Zarqawi? He’s the first head of ISIS... until he assumed room temperature in Iraq during the Bush admin when he was hit by two US missiles. Some time before he was killed, Saddam Hussein’s General al Dhouri and his sons swore allegiance to Zarqawi and the General’s insurgent group formally merged with Zarqawi’s.

When Sandy Berger stole the Millennium documents from the National Archives the Democrats were still insisting that Zarqawi’s group - which had a terror cell in Baghdad a year or more before we invaded that was largely made up of Egyptian terrorists whose spiritual leader was the imprisoned Blind Sheikh Omar Abdurahman, had nothing to do with al Qaeda and the Bush admin was wrong to use Zarqawi as one of the reasons to invade Iraq.

Since then it’s been made abundantly clear that the Obama admin’s Muslim Brotherhood allies desperately wanted to secure the release of the Blind Sheikh, and so did the Benghazi attackers.


32 posted on 06/02/2016 12:32:33 PM PDT by piasa
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To: arthurus

Huma’s a spy.

Remember, Hillary’s office was also infested with Russian spies... recall the ringleader who fled to Cyprus?


33 posted on 06/02/2016 12:35:22 PM PDT by piasa
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To: doberville

No, some of them were burned in his fireplace.


34 posted on 06/02/2016 12:37:13 PM PDT by piasa
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To: ReaganGeneration2
Anyway, photographing documents could’ve been the way Huma bridged the classified - unclassified gap.

CD or thumb drive. Same way Manning did it.

35 posted on 06/02/2016 12:43:33 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Roccus
"Look, who cares if it was blackhats in the employ of the Russian government, A spy for the Muslim Brotherhood who worked as my personal assistant, or just some snot-nosed loser with a bunch of computers in his mom's basement who had access to top-secret and classified data?

"What difference, at this point, can it possibly make?"

36 posted on 06/02/2016 12:54:06 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Fifth Avenue to be Born?)
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To: Bruce Kurtz

Faraday cages don’t stop smartphones from taking pictures, removing the SD card to capture data, downloading via USB, or from connecting them to a network with a wiring closet that goes beyond the cage.


37 posted on 06/02/2016 12:57:10 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Fifth Avenue to be Born?)
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To: Red Badger
So this is a more high-tech version of Sandy Berger filling his shorts with classified docs.
38 posted on 06/02/2016 1:05:01 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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To: lacrew

...if the media ever turns on her...she’s done!


39 posted on 06/02/2016 1:08:53 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Red Badger

Understood! But it is so often inadvertently violated, and dutifully reported. I know - a matter of degree, but her supporters won’t care about facts like that.


40 posted on 06/02/2016 1:49:52 PM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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