They explained the risks to Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff, while also seeking “mitigation options” that would accommodate Clinton’s wishes. Department security, intelligence and technology specialists, along with five officials from the National Security Agency, gathered in a Mahogany Row conference room. On Feb. 17, 2009, less than a month into Clinton’s tenure, the issue came to a head. 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. Her aides and senior officials pushed to find a way to enable her to use the device in the secure area. She hated having to put her BlackBerry into a lockbox before going into her own office.
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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 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.įor Clinton, this was frustrating. Hillary Clinton’s email problems began in her first days as secretary of state. Hillary Clinton, who at the time was selected to be secretary of state, checks her BlackBerry on an elevator at the U.S.
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