Corruption: Hillary Clinton’s emails show that even though she’d been warned that using a smartphone for State Department communications was a security risk, she did it anyway. She can’t be trusted.
Soon after Clinton took office as secretary of state in 2009, the National Security Agency rejected her request to use a smartphone to conduct government business. She wanted a “BlackBerry-like” device, the Associated Press reported, similar to the one provided to President Obama. According to emails obtained by Judicial Watch, which has filed a number of lawsuits to uncover what Clinton tried to cover up as secretary, she had become “hooked” on using a BlackBerry like the one she used during the 2008 presidential race to keep up with her emails. She did not want to use a secure laptop or desktop computer to access email while secretary.
Eventually, Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff, and seven senior State Department staffers met with five NSA security experts. The AP reports that the State Department’s NSA liaison “expressed concerns about security vulnerabilities inherent with using BlackBerry devices for secure communications or in secure areas.”
Yet “the following month, in March 2009, Clinton began using private email accounts accessed through her BlackBerry to exchange messages with her top aides,” even though, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton says, “Clinton knew her BlackBerry wasn’t secure.”
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