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Originally posted by: alanleroy
Here's something you may find interesting...
Why Clinton's Private E-Mail Server was such a security fail.
The Wired article was written soon after the revelation of a private server. As technical details became clear, the vulnerability of that server was far worse than it described. They allowed Remote Desktop Connections directly from the Internet without using a VPN. Total Amateur Hour. None of the many businesses I work with allow those kinds of connections to their servers....and they don't contain any Top Secret e-mails.
Clinton Server Remote Access Risks
Now...was that illegal? Was it compromised? Was there any real breach that impacted National Security? I have no idea. At minimum, it does show bad judgment.
There's another interesting fact about Secretary Clinton's private server.
The server was set up by a fellow named Bryan Pagliano who also maintained the system for the Secretary Clinton, President Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton prior to Hillary becoming Secretary of state
And upon her ascension to the head of State Department, Mr. Pagliano was hired as a GS-15 even though he had no national security experience or security clearance. He was paid $140,000 annual; . . . In addition to his government salary, Pagliano also received compensation directly from the Clinton family, but did not list it on his annual financial disclosure forms; Asked in early August about whether Pagliano had been paid privately to maintain the server, a State Department official said that the agency had “found no evidence that he ever informed the department that he had outside income.”
Such "arrangements" are not uncommon among the Clintons. Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff, and Huma Abedin, a close confidant who served as deputy chief of staff, both spent time working for the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and the Clintons personally, while Hillary was Secretary of State.
according to the Washington Post.
In February 2013, the same month Hillary left as Secretary of State, Pagliano’s GS-15 employee status ended.
This is known in Clinton circles as "a pure coincidence".
In September 2015 Mr. Pagliano told a congressional committee that he would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination instead of testifying about the private e-mail setup.
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As part of invoking his Fifth Amendment right, Pagliano is also invoking the so-called act-of-production privilege. Since 1984, according to a review by Fox News, the privilege has been used in 103 federal or state cases.
A person can invoke his Fifth Amendment rights against the production of documents only where the act of producing the documents is incriminating in itself. According to a legal review by Fox News, this privilege applies when producing the documents – as opposed to their contents -- to the government is entitled to Fifth Amendment protection.
This assertion is tantamount to the defendant's testimony that the documents exist, are authentic and are in his possession.
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Ref: www.foxnews.com
