A quick update on the Hillary Clinton vs Martin O’Malley presidential campaign.
Hillary Clinton has suddenly become target number one because she used a private e-mail server set up in her home to do all her official business as Secretary of State. People are rightfully outraged because it circumvented record keeping laws along with security issues.
Martin O’Malley though, in his quixotic campaign, can’t claim any better. See, back in 2007 when I was blogging on my old site, I published Martin O’Malley’s e-mail address – which was a sprint Nextel blackberry address, not affiliated with the State of Maryland. He was using this to conduct official business with, that’s how I got a hold of it.
In addition, former-Governor O’Malley used something called Pin-to-Pin communication to send messages to his top aides and inner circle. Think of Pin-to-Pin as a precursor to the Apple iMessage; it was a data driven text message. There is a very simple way to record these on State servers, however, the Governor directed his IT department to turn them off so that nobody could monitor his communication and that no record would exist to be FOIA’d.
Too bad, Martin O’Malley might have been able to get a foothold in an area that is really causing some damage to Hillary Clinton, but the reality is that he is just as opaque.
“he is just as opaque”
If we require nearly total transparency from politicians, would anyone sign up?
Amusing as hell that a pseudonym is bleating about opacity…
There is no transparency requirement for Internet posters, nor is there a need. They are neither spending our money nor creating laws and regulations that we must obey. However, the opposite is true for politicians for the previously stated reasons.
We’ll see how transparent the Hogan Administration will be sibcechalf his lackeys are holdovers from the previous republican governor investigated for firing state employees and making open positions appointed openings.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hntbs-pete-rahn–transportation-underinvestment-cannot-continue-113021974.html
Digging this new transportation Secretary advocating for higher gas taxes.
I for one am sick of douche bag politicians insulting my intelligence. When that turd bag Koskinen stated they’d lost all Lerner’s e-mails when her hard drive failed I was livid that he could look us all in the eye and lie his ass off. Anyone with any IT experience knows that was bull$hit. Am I to believe the Government does e-mail peer to peer with no central server or backups? Do you know Koskinen was on Clinton’s Y2K committee? I’d think he’d know something about computers. He even made a statement back then that I just had to print out and post: “We’re at too high a level of abstraction to quantify risks” – Boy, is that a $400 an hour shrug of the shoulders? I would have banned him from any further involvement with the Federal Government that day but now he heads the IRS. Oh, it even gets better… now Obama says gee willikers I never noticed Hillary wasn’t using a proper Gubment e-mail address. Never wondered why her address didn’t end in .gov? Hmmm… and they keep telling me how brilliant you are… What do you think the odds are we’ll ever know who Hillary’s IT admin was… or has he been disappeared?
I think the IT admin was actually Chelsea. She was doing it for her mom on the side while earning $600,000 per year from NBC for doing nothing.
I’m not convinced Chelsea could spell IT. All joking aside, none of the pundits and talking heads will ever ask questions from an IT perspective. It’s easy for these vermin to lie to other politicians, but anyone with an ounce of IT experience would call them out immediately. Oh, we lost all her e-mails… um, no sir, that would be bull$hit, sir. Who goes to work for an employer that offers e-mail service yet chooses to set up their own server at their own expense? The ONLY possible purpose is secrecy and paranoia. So, who IS the admin? Was there a Geek Squad car in the driveway every day? Did the admin sign secrecy documents? What sort of security was utilized? Firewall? AV? Back up procedures? Offsite? If backups were made, what format? How were they disposed of? How many accounts were on the server? The list goes on…