<story><title>NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so she used her own</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/nsa-refused-clinton-a-secure-blackberry-like-obama-so-she-used-her-own/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>This makes Clinton seem petty.&lt;p&gt;She had a wired-computer she could check email on in the SCIF, but she refused and was only willing to read her email on a Blackberry, so her staff tried to get authorisation for one, failed, and then tried to get her a highly sensitive top level device just so she could check her unclassified email in the SCIF (she could use a standard Blackberry elsewhere).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m siding with the NSA here. She should just buck up and learn to check her email on a wired PC like everyone else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>res0nat0r</author><text>This is easy when you work in an office every day at the same location for your job. As Secretary of State travelling all of the time around the world this isn&amp;#x27;t realistic.</text></comment>
<story><title>NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so she used her own</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/nsa-refused-clinton-a-secure-blackberry-like-obama-so-she-used-her-own/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>This makes Clinton seem petty.&lt;p&gt;She had a wired-computer she could check email on in the SCIF, but she refused and was only willing to read her email on a Blackberry, so her staff tried to get authorisation for one, failed, and then tried to get her a highly sensitive top level device just so she could check her unclassified email in the SCIF (she could use a standard Blackberry elsewhere).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m siding with the NSA here. She should just buck up and learn to check her email on a wired PC like everyone else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradleyjg</author><text>The subtext of some of these stories seem to be that there was a great deal of tension between the intelligence community and the state department. In particular, this whole business about retroactive classification seems to be part of a larger battle on the issue of overclassification.</text></comment>