Discussion: Mike Pence Used Personal Email To Conduct Indiana Business

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Calif. Supreme Court rules (unanimously) that elected officals e-mails are not private any more!

http://abc7.com/news/california-supreme-court-says-officials-emails-are-public-records/1781371/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

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Mike, would you like to appear on the Sunday shows this week? I’m sure Americans would appreciate your phony condescending smile at this time.

Now about that private server…

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Yes, but arguing “He has a penis and she doesn’t, so this isn’t a problem”, which is the real reason, isn’t a really compelling logical argument either.

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Well IOKIYAR

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Pitiful Pious Pence.

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Don’t worry, Comey is on this and will soon go on national TV to tell us just how careless our VP was. And, the Utah avenger will soon get his investigation going, an investigation that will surely last for at least 7 years.

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Hypocrisy, thy name is GOP.

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So far I have been able to find enough words to express my feelings, it’s just that those are words I don’t recall using since I left high school.

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sent Pence an update from the FBI to his personal email about men arrested on federal terror-related charges

Troubling…incomprehensible.
Several Pence-Anthony Weiner emails were also found…

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“Hypocrisy, We Hardly Knew Ye”

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Outrageous that DEMS did espionage against this fine AMERICAN and gave his PERSONAL email to ENEMIES OF The American People! If a DEMOCRAT had a PRIVATE EMAIL, the BIASED FAKENEWS media would never report about it!!!

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AOL is still a thing?

Did he use a dial-up modem on his TRS-80?
With floppy disks?
And a dot-matrix printer?

I hope the reporter took a Polaroid picture of it.
Or at least got some Betamax footage.
And cassette-tape audio.

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Release all of Pence’s private emails so we can see his top secret responses to his Grinder account.

He won’t be able to pray those away.

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Now tell me this isn’t one of the funniest sentences you’ve ever read

Pence’s personal AOL account was hacked over the summer by a scammer who emailed Pence’s contact list, claiming that Pence and his wife were stranded in the Philippines and needed money, the [Indianapolis] Star reported.

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Of all the hypocrisy, the most clueless (per charitable assumption) was VP spox’s assertion that Pence’s emails couldn’t possibly have included classified material “because [he] did not have security clearance.”

Ahahahahaahaha! Really, you never heard of retroactive classification? Try to keep up.

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Hillary for Special Prosecutor!

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More convinced than ever that Republicans are not only hypocrites, they are just scum. Pence is no more a devout Christian than my dog. I real Christian would not lie like Pence.

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arguing that Pence did not share federal classified material

Neither did Clinton. There were some emails classified at a later date, along with some that the FBI decided, with some dubious reasoning and without consultation with the state department, should be classified.

The emails that the FBI considered classified when sent fell in three categories, according to the reporting I remember:

  1. Emails with paragraphs marked by (c), which the State Dept. explained were temporary designations used when the SOS was considering a potential call to a foreign official and that the temporary designation had been removed (but the marking erroneously left in place) before the email was sent.

  2. Discussions about how DOS personnel should respond when foreign contacts brought up a New York Times story that revealed the US government’s classified program using drones to assassinate terrorist leaders. The discussions apparently did not provide any details about the program or otherwise confirm the existence of the program.

  3. Materials that included information that was provided in confidence from foreign government sources. Comey took the position that such material automatically falls under a very restrictive classification. That isn’t true. The relevant rules on such material say that there are 3 ways to determine the appropriate classification, if any. The first factor to consider is how the foreign government has classified the material. If there is a foreign classification, the US government is to use a classification that carries equal or greater restrictions. The second factor to consider is the degree of secrecy the provider would expect the recipient to use when handling the information. That’s where the FBI failed. Without an investigation of the circumstances under which the information was provided, and the manner in which the provider handled the information, the agency could not make the assumption that the DOS had erred in treating the information as unclassified. Instead, the FBI jumped to the third classification factor, which basically says that, if you can’t determine an appropriate classification based on either of the first two factors, you default to a high level of classification for the material.

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There is a lot of technical ignorance out there, even for people well under 60, and there really are people who genuinely believe that a private server is inherently less secure than AOL and no matter of claiming otherwise can get through. The sad thing is that it’s not even close: a well-run private server, with access to only a select few people will always be more secure than any public alternative, whether AOL, Google, or Microsoft.

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And aside from Trump’s generals, who, in this benighted, war-prone maladministration, ever served?

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