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They’re refusing to use government issued devices. They’re all using personals. This was an issue last time around, too. There’s a whole fucking division of the government (that I’m sure they’re hollowing out now) whose job it is to make sure people who need secure devices have them and use them.
That’s nuts. I couldn’t even imagine putting anything gov or company secret into a personal device. Hell at work I even watch what I type into google
When Hillary Clinton used a private email server like her Republican predecessors, it was such an enormous breech of security that it launched numerous investigations (all by Republicans, and none concluding that any crimes occurred, or damage was done), and we are still hearing them whine about it to this day. Yet these dopes use off-the-shelf iPhones for communication, exposing our most precious secrets, and none of them think it's an issue.
The only reason we know about this was because they reached a spectacular new level of incompetence, and literally invited a reporter to join them. How many times have they done this before, and how many times will they keep doing it? Discussing classified operations over unsecure phones, that is, not inviting reporters to join in. That will never happen again.
Her predecessors didn't do that. They were literally using Hotmail and Gmail. Making their performative outrage even more absurd.
Clinton's server wasn't strictly to the standards of regulation and laws. But it wasn't a fucking public email server hosting your grandmother's Viagra spam.
Heh-heh
We previously didn't think they were stupid enough to do it once, and yet, they did. "Never" would imply a capability to learn from their mistakes that they do not possess.
Valid.
Makes me fucking sick that they get away with this shit, particularly after Hillary Clinton.
Fucking sickening.
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What makes me sick is all the centrists and Leftists and low-information idiot voters who fucking believed all that shit about Hillary. Fash gonna fash, I expect them to be liars and hypocrites. But THOSE fucking dumbasses, the "Hillery gives me bad vibe so I vote for orange man" unga-bunga paint sniffers? That's what makes me sick.