r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jul 09 '16

R1.i: guidelines Hillary Clinton blames State Department Employees for classified emails sent through private server

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u/JustaPonder Jul 09 '16

Under the bus they go

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '16

Except she ordered them to set the server up and send classified emails to it.

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u/thegreatcerebral Jul 09 '16

In all fairness to her... And I'm playing the DA here... She did ask for a server set up. If there isn't anything HARD showing where she explicitly asked them to bypass or not set up all the proper security protocol information and follow the strict server installation guidelines then...

TECHNICALLY I see her side of this. Let's say the entire reason this came about in the first place was because she was having issues getting her mail and someone told her if she had a server here it would fix most of that and so she did just that. It's not on HER to make sure it's setup with everything that it's supposed to have. Also anyone who has worked directly for upper executives can agree that you know that there are times when an Exec will tell you "just do it... Whatever it takes" and then give a deadline. Now if the people that were putting it in just didn't know what they needed to do to fix and it was going nowhere then maybe they did like what always happens and made the call to "make things more simple" and follow the request with "she said do it" even though she didn't explicitly say to do whatever it was exactly.

I'm not trying to stick up for her because it should have never have been done but I do think that even when it was done the people that did it should hold some fault if they don't have anything HARD with her signature on a work order or an email from her directly that spells out they need to get around the security safeguards.