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FBI Said to Recover Personal E-Mails From Hillary Clinton Server
The FBI has recovered personal and work-related e-mails from the private computer server used by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, according to a person familiar with the investigation. ... A review by Clinton and her aides determined that about half of the 60,000 e-mails she exchanged during her four-year tenure as secretary of state were of a personal nature, the presidential candidate has said. ...
In 2013, the Clintons turned the private server over to a Colorado-based technology company to manage. The firm, Platte River Networks, installed the device in a New Jersey data center and managed and maintained it.
Andy Boian, a spokesman for the Platte River, said the FBI last month asked the company to hand over the server. Platte River asked the Clintons what it should do, and within 24 hours a representative for the Clintons told the company to provide the device to agents, Boian said.
There has been some question as to whether Clinton deleted her messages or took the more thorough and technical step of "wiping" the server. Boian said Tuesday that Platte River had "no knowledge of it being wiped."
Wow. What are the odds she just deleted the emails rather than doing a real wipe? It's obvious that she wanted personal total control over her emails -- that is the whole point of personal server -- and if she failed to get competent advice on how to actually wipe a machine, it demonstrates her own lack of competence in selecting people who are actual experts to help her do the things she wants. Doing a multi-pass overwrite with random data isn't exactly esoteric knowledge -- that's pretty basic stuff. There is of course the brute force method as well. Surely she remembers the Air Force personnel smashing computer equipment when they had to land in China after a midair collision. Or the destruction of The Guardian's Snowden hard drives.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday September 24 2015, @04:45PM
I'll only argue one of your charges. Katrina. Bush did - ohhh - just about what he should have done. For a day or five, he kept his face shut, and stayed out of the way. Finally, when the country was just eaten up with suspension, he contacted the incompetent, insufferable liberal idiots who ran the state and the city affected. Either or both of those nincompoops could have appealed to the federal government for relief within minutes or hours of the hurricane making landfall. And, that was their JOB. Local authority shoudl cope with minor emergencies, state authority should deal with greater emergencies, and the feds should be called in to help with major disasters. That is the way things work.
As witnessed time and time again, in so many settings, unless help is desparately needed, the locals actually resent curious onlookers. That ranges from dimwitted passersby, to the media, to higher levels of government. When a city is actively dealing with an emergency, they don't really want the governor looking over their shoulders, and second guessing them. Ditto at the next higher level.
It was five days before Bush fired off his missives, demanding to know what was going on, as I recall. All in all, I judge that to be a little slow, but not criminally. The criminals were in Louisiana, hunkered down, waiting for God only knows what, to stupid to pick up a phone, or a radio, to call in the help they so desparately needed.
I followed the Colorado National Guard into New Orleans, on about day 19 or so. They could have, and would have, been there two weeks earlier, if only the idiot bitch had asked them to come. People all over the country were standing by, just waiting to help - not just the various National Guard, but the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard - the resources were available. Just a simple "help me" would have sufficed.
As already stated, I have no love for Boy George - but that one particular charge is mislaid at his feet.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2015, @05:44PM
Heckofajob Brownie!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday September 24 2015, @06:42PM
See, I lay that charge at Bush's feet for one specific reason: He thought it was appropriate to place somebody with absolutely no experience in emergency management whatsoever in charge of FEMA. Picking subordinates is one of the key jobs of a president, and he decided that that pick was an OK one to spend on somebody who had effectively bought his position for campaign donations as opposed to, say, ambassador to a friendly country that we're rarely negotiating with.
Obama, for all his many faults, didn't do that, which is a big part of why Hurricane Sandy wasn't anywhere near the same level of disaster that Katrina was.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin