Rhut Rhow.....

[Pudfark]

New email release shows Clinton chose not to use secure phone line, acknowledged Blackberry risk

A new set of State Department documents released Thursday by the watchdog group Judicial Watch reveal then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the choice not to use a secure phone line amid a technical problem and acknowledged the risk of using a private Blackberry phone.

The documents contain a Feb. 22, 2009, email exchange between Clinton and her then-Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills attempting to communicate over a secure line after Clinton returned from an overseas trip.

When there were issues setting up a secure communication, Clinton wrote to Mills, “I called ops and they gave me your ‘secure’ cells… but only got a high-pitched whining sound.”

Mills then suggested that Clinton try the secure line again, but the former secretary wrote back, “I give up. Call me on my home #.”

Clinton's choice not to use a secure phone line is similar to a previous June, 17, 2011 email exchange with then-State Department deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan, where she directed him to strip the classification markings of sensitive talking points and send through non-secure fax.

"They say they've had issues sending secure fax. They're working on it," Sullivan wrote to Clinton.
"If they can't, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure," Clinton responded.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05 ... tcmp=hpbt2

Looking more like Bernie and the Donald...at this point. Hillary is as good as convicted, now.

[callmeslick]

Bernie or Biden?

[Pudfark]

I've thought all along....The Dem race was a 'Dog and Ponie' show with Biden waiting off stage to 'swoop in' and save the party...
He's to old and lazy to campaign...he'd pick Warren and try to slide into first base? He wouldn't have to spend much money...

The problems is? It will blow your party up as a certainty....as in every Bernie supporter will know who hosed them...
Your 'always' reliable low information Dem's are gonna be highly pissed off. Result? Trump will be overwhelmingly the next POTUS...

That's a good thing.

Nice to know that your absent comment on the link I posted, endorses my observation/call.

[callmeslick]

http://nypost.com/2016/05/13/were-runni ... manifesto/
now, I suspect this is fictitious, meant to stir the pot in an election year. However, I think the critique of the money
and influence around fundraising to run for office, and an electorate(on all sides) that is uninformed, uninvolved and
self-absorbed are both spot on. The sad part is that his view of the future(America is on an irreversable decline) might
well be accurate, and we have to fix the electorate part before we can ever address the other parts.

[Pudfark]

That was a 'fun read' and I too, doubt it's validity. Particularly when the article starts out "An anonymous congressman"....

I do believe your observations on the article are mostly correct and mirror mine. However, to me, anonymous is equal to irresponsible and unaccountable. Three words that should no longer be acceptable to anyone or either party.

[callmeslick]

without Citizens United being overturned(and hence, the litmus test for ANY Supreme Court judge going forward), nothing changes. The system literally TAKES AWAY responsibility and transparency as it currently stands.

[callmeslick]

[Pudfark]

The system literally TAKES AWAY responsibility and transparency as it currently stands.

If you had added "accountability"? I could'a agreed 100%.

[callmeslick]

I view the two as synonymous. If you can't see the sausage being made, you don't know who to blame when it turns out to be toxic.

[callmeslick]

.....which gets me to another problem from seeing Trump in action my whole adult life, here in the East. He is anything BUT transparent or accountable. He's left so many people in the dark and on the hook as to be frightening. I wouldn't invest a dime with him, that's for sure.