Discussion: AP: Hillary Clinton's Private Email Server Had Hacking Risk

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So Trey Gowdy is leaking again, huh? And the AP runs with it. Yes, servers have vulnerabilities that crop up from time to time. Was her system hacked? Nope, no evidence of that. But hey, at least we can write another breathless headline over nonsense.

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Not much else left to say.

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More nothing

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Were State’s email servers hacked? Yes.
Were Trump’s Hotels hacked? Yes
Was Hillary’s email server hacked? No, but she’s negligent because it could have been hacked. It’s a scandal I tell you!!!

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So clinton’s email server was accessible from outside of her home? No shit, how else was she supposed to access her email when working outside of her home? It was connected to the internet? Oh noes! And no shit, it was a remote email server.

AP doing Benghazi-style reporting and just drip, drip, dripping these meaningless “updates and potential scandals” to keep this story alive through the election. My guess is with the debate tonight they figured it’s time to throw some more poop at the fan.

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This remote access is likely related to remote administration of the server rather than having anything to do with checking her email.

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So what system is free from possible hacking? As one story ebbs, another begins. This will continue throughout the campaign and if she wins, throughout her presidency. The reason is simple. The opposition wants Hillary supporters to give up. They cannot win with their ideas. They sure can’t win with the candidates they are running. The only hope they have is to drip, drip, drip nonsense every single day. The media plays right in their hands as it is “news”. Clinton supporters should stay strong.

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Hmmm…should I be skeptical of this timely AP article on the eve of the Democratic Debate, when for all intents and purposes, the committee has essentially been shown to be a total farce in both word and deed?

These fuckers just don’t quit, do they? Gotta dredge up more ludicrous bullshit to keep it going I see. Ya think Jake Tapper will have a question about this now? Its a given.

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Nothing in that story specifies if Hillary’s email system was more or less vulnerable than the official email system used by the State Department. I think that would be an important detail.

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This nothingburger needs some creamy imaginnaise…

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Thankfully, the internal systems of the US government, including emails and diplomatic cables, have never, ever been stolen and published en masse. Wait, what?

Still, this story will continue to have legs simply because the name Clinton is attached to it.

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If AP thinks that Hillary’s private email server had hacker risk, they certainly know that US government email and other servers had hacking risk, as they were, in fact hacked, whereas Mrs. Clinton’s was not (unless you consider spamming, which occurs on my computer at work all the time, to be hacking). The irony of this ridiculous manufactured scandal is that the emails which Gowdy’s committee claims were classified (or should have been known to be classified even though they weren’t marked as such) and thus were a problem because they were on Mrs. Clinton’s private server would have been every bit as much of a problem had they been transmitted on any government email exchange system that was not protected for purposes of sending classified information. In other words, had Mrs. Clinton done everything she is being accused of doing, whatever that is, on a government server for this type of email, the problem would have been exactly the same (unmarked classified info being sent on a non-classified server). The fact that it was a private server v a government server is irrelevant. And the people who say she took unreasonable risks of hacking using a private server need to explain why the fact that OPM and DOT servers were hacked, and the personal information of millions of government employees released to hackers, is not reason to potentially prefer a private server set up by IT professionals hired by the former President of the United States. This truly is the most ridiculous non-scandal ever. The media should be ashamed of the way they were played by Republican congressmen now shown to be completely political in their motivations, and utterly incompetent at self-governance. Another great moment in GOP Politics and the problems with journalists being stenographers to power.

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I also “could have” fallen off of that mountain in August, but I didn’t.

But I COULD HAVE!

But I didn’t.

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AP:

American Pravda

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But what we do know is that the gov’t’s Office of Personnel Management was most likely hacked by the Chinese. Maybe the Republican-led Congress should spend more time investigating real hackers than the ones they dream could’ve happened, but actually didn’t.

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It’s what the MSM does; a]because they’re lazy; b]because the MSM is run by corporate shills and c] I’m starting to think that they just aren’t that good at presenting objective analysis because it’s boring or might piss-off some fact-challenged GOPers somewhere.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/10/13/3711635/democratic-debate-boring-media/

During Obama’s 60 minutes interview, more time was spent on Hillary’s emails than gun control; in fact, this issue never came up. Totally mis-prioritized considering the Oregon mass shooting.

During the interview that aired Sunday night, Kroft pressed Obama six times about Clinton’s emails.

No questions about gun violence made it into the portions of the interview CBS aired. But it turns out Kroft actually did actually raise the topic of gun violence with Obama during the Q&A, but 60 Minutes editors cut that portion out of the final TV interview. (Viewers can only see Obama and Kroft’s exchange about gun violence online.)

In other words, the portion of the Q&A that focused on the well-worn process story of Clinton’s emails was deemed by CBS to be far more newsworthy than Obama’s discussion of gun violence, even though the interview came in the wake of several campus shootings this month.

And at no time when addressing the email issue did Kroft mention that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) recently made headlines when he seemed to acknowledge that the Benghazi select committee, which is now focused almost exclusively on the email issue, was created in order to sabotage Clinton’s White House run.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/10/13/during-obama-interview-60-minutes-prioritized-c/206099

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We should thank Fournier’s AP for letting us know anyone who connects to the Internet, no matter the source is within seconds under attack by bot’s etc.

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That’s why I may not tune in tonight. The analysis after by the pundit-idiocracy, the headlines that will follow from the MSM deciding on whatever forgone conclusion they reached before the actual event took place, and the all-important poll numbers that follow, are the only thing the media values.

Debates in this country for most elected offices, but especially for the Presidency is generally not a debate at all, in the truest sense. It’s a media spectacle, to be sure. But the idea of how many people watch is supposed to be indicative of how ramped-up people are for their candidate is an out-dated notion. People tuned into the GOP ‘debates’ because they wanted to rubberneck the crazyclown car collision, with tRump and all the other looneys decidedly choosing to crash into one another.

Besides, the idea that CNN has a podium in the wings awaiting Joe Biden strolling in any minute, was the absurd straw that broke the camel’s back for me. That just strikes me as desperation and exploitive…because Biden is not gonna be there and everyone knows it.

Added: I honestly believe that the MSM does not want to report on anything that approaches gun control because gun violence for the MSM sells and pays off royally.

It provides viewers with breaking news coverage, ratings for a dying television audience, and allows them to use their well-stocked cadre of ‘experts’ and contributors on retainer for just such an event, such as a school shootings or the lone crazed gunman. They have forensic psychologists, ex-law enforcement, ATF, autopsy pathologists, criminal profilers, and every politician at-the-ready to offer the same repetitive words to “keep the conversation going”. They even try to turn these horrific massacres into one hour crime docudramas often times as entertainment. Its a complete industry where the MSM is complicit.

Advocating gun control or even simply reporting on the need to take a look at it, would put the kibosh on the entire enterprise they have going. Very simply, it works against their own bottom line.

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Even the pigs at Brietbart didn’t hack it. How much more of a non-issue can it get?