WASHINGTON POST
Hillary Clinton’s email problems began in her
first days as secretary of state. She insisted on using her personal
BlackBerry for all her email communications, but she wasn’t allowed to
take the device into her seventh-floor suite of offices, a secure space
known as Mahogany Row.
For Clinton, this was frustrating. As a
political heavyweight and chief of the nation’s diplomatic corps, she
needed to manage a torrent of email to stay connected to colleagues,
friends and supporters. She hated having to put her BlackBerry into a
lockbox before going into her own office.Her aides and senior officials pushed to find a way to enable her to use the device in the secure area. But their efforts unsettled the diplomatic security bureau, which was worried that foreign intelligence services could hack her BlackBerry and transform it into a listening device.
On Feb. 17, 2009, less than a month into Clinton’s tenure, the issue came to a head. Department security, intelligence and technology specialists, along with five officials from the National Security Agency, gathered in a Mahogany Row conference room. They explained the risks to Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff, while also seeking “mitigation options” that would accommodate Clinton’s wishes. (...)
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