Hillary Has an NSA Problem
&gt; “What did she not want put on a government system, where security people might see it?” the former NSA official asked, adding, “I wonder now, and I sure wish I’d asked about it back in 2009.”<p>Hold on. She wanted a custom, NSA-built Blackberry so she could check her personal email...and this former NSA official thinks her aversion to checking her personal email on a desktop was for privacy reasons? Give me a break.<p>My understanding is that when Clinton&#x27;s tenure began as Secretary of State, the department (and most of the federal government) didn&#x27;t have developed bring-your-own-device policies, and she specifically requested the NSA provide her a secure device so she could comply with security requirements.<p>As snowwrestler says, this is a hit piece. It looks more and more to me like Clinton was doing her best to work with ambiguous and incomplete security policies, and the NSA denied her request for hardware that would somewhat ameliorate the problem.<p>This revelation about the Blackberry request reads as more of a vindication of Clinton than anything else (and adds more support to the idea that what led to the email scandal wasn&#x27;t really her fault), but this article is somehow twisting it into an attack.<p>Might be worth adding that I&#x27;ve never heard of this news outlet.