Pro-Hillary Super PAC Defends Her: Gov’t Got Hacked, Her Email Server Didn’t
This might be one of the stranger defenses Hillary Clinton‘s supporters have offered regarding her use of private, non-secure email as Secretary of State.
Correct the Record, a pro-Clinton political action committee run by David Brock, published a report today arguing that she actually made classified information more secure by diverting it away from her government-issued address. Their explanation? There has not been any evidence yet to suggest that Clinton’s private server was hacked, whereas government agencies have been breached by several cyber-attacks in the past few months.
“Among the news media’s obsessive coverage of Hillary Clinton’s email practices, a simple fact has been lost,” the report said. “There is no evidence that Hillary Clinton’s email was ever breached. On the other hand, the U.S. government has been hacked on numerous occasions, compromising even the most sensitive of information.”
The FBI has been conducting an extensive investigation of Clinton’s email system, though the Daily Dot reported that the closest hackers have come to accessing it was when Sidney Blumenthal‘s AOL account was breached in 2013. Correct the Record brings up quotes like those from State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf, who implied that Clinton’s server has not shown any sign yet of having been compromised.
“No clintonemail.com messages were included in the Manning WikiLeaks dump, unlike thousands of emails from State Department servers,” the report argues. It goes on to reference Clinton’s comments about the server at a March conference, where she said, “It had numerous safeguards. It was on property guarded by the Secret Service. And there were no security breaches.”
[h/t The Blaze]
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