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Hillary Clinton 2016: Super PAC defends private server use, pointing to
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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-private-server-correct-the-record-213547#ixzz3lXpeqofF

Pro-Clinton super PAC defends private server use, pointing to federal hacks
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A political action committee devoted to defending the record of Hillary
Clinton is trying out a new defense of Clinton's use of a private email
server as secretary of state: There’s no proof the server was hacked — but
you can’t say the same for the federal government.

“The U.S. government has been hacked on numerous occasions, compromising
even the most sensitive of information,” Correct the Record says in a report
<http://www.correctrecord.org/hillary-clintons-email-security-matters/> out
Friday. “Anyone who attempts to argue that the contents of Hillary
Clinton’s email would have been more secure on a government server must
contend with these facts.”

Numerous security experts have suggested a private server is less likely to
be secure than a government system. The FBI is reportedly still
scrutinizing whether intruders accessed the server, and Republicans in
particular have questioned whether Clinton’s private email system
jeopardized national security.

Correct the Record, founded by David Brock, compiled months’ worth of
reporting and public remarks pointing to the fact that, to date, there’s no
sign that Clinton’s private server was compromised. The report also details
the protections put in place for the private server.

And the report collects many prominent incidents of federal government data
breaches, including the recent IRS breach. Most of the incidents listed
occurred during the Obama administration, although some date back to the
George W. Bush years. Notably, according to Correct the Record, no emails
from Clinton’s private server were swept up in the 2010 Wikileaks
disclosure of State Department cables.

“As a result of multiple public cyber breaches of a variety of agencies, we
know with certainty that the federal government’s systems were insecure,”
said Adrienne Watson, communications director for Correct the Record.
"Republicans are on a mission to hurt Hillary Clinton before 2016, plain
and simple. ... Republican politicians won’t release their own emails to
the public and they certainly won’t provide the public with context on
email security.”

This week Clinton apologized for using the private email system. "I'm sorry
about that," Clinton told ABC News. ”I take responsibility and I am trying
to be as transparent as I possibly can."
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