- Kremlin is ready to give green light on releasing the emails, report says
- Clinton has maintained no emails were intercepted by foreign sources
- But OilPrice.com cites US intelligence sources saying that they were
- Clinton would be at risk of violating Espionage Act if foreign governments or sources accessed classified information through her personal server
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Russian government is set to publicly release emails obtained from
Hillary Clinton's private server, according to a new report.
Clinton
has maintained the highly classified information that passed through
her controversial system was not intercepted by foreign governments.
However, according to trade site OilPrice.com citing US intelligence sources, the government is braced for a release that would suggest the opposite.
And it could come at any time once the Kremlin gives the green light, the site reports.
'Breach': A report claims Hillary
Clinton's private email server was accessed by the Russians, who are set
to release the confidential information soon
Clinton
would be at risk of violating the Espionage Act if foreign governments
or sources accessed classified information through her personal server.
It is not the first mention that Russia could have obtained some of the emails.
Last
year it emerged that Clinton's private server was directly connected to
the internet in ways that made it more vulnerable to hackers.
A
recent State Department inspector general's report indicated the server
was temporarily unplugged by a Clinton aide at one point during attacks
by hackers, but her campaign has said there's no evidence the server
was hacked.
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each year from 2011 to 2014, the State Department's poor cybersecurity
was identified by its inspector general as a 'significant deficiency'
that put the department's information at risk.
Another
State Department inspector general report revealed that hacking
attempts forced Clinton off her private email at one point in 2011.
Then
in 2014, the State Department's unclassified email system was breached
by hackers with links to Russia. They stole an unspecified number of
emails.
The
hack was so deep that State's email system had to be cut off from the
internet while experts worked to eliminate the infestation.
At
least 47 of the emails Clinton turned over to the State Department
contain the notation 'B3 CIA PERS/ORG,' which indicates the material
referred to CIA personnel or matters related to the agency.
And
because both Clinton's server and the State Department systems were
vulnerable to hacking, the perpetrators could have those original
emails.
Stewart
Baker, a Washington lawyer who spent more than three years as an
assistant secretary of the Homeland Security Department and is former
legal counsel for the National Security Agency, said it is 'entirely
plausible ... that foreign intelligence services discovered and rifled
Hillary Clinton's server'.
If so, infiltrators would have copies of all her emails - unredacted.
Baker points out another instance where Clinton's server might have been hacked.
A
March 2, 2009, email warned against State Department officials using
Blackberries. Eric Boswell, assistant secretary of state, says the
'vulnerabilities and risks associated with the use of Blackberries ...
considerably outweigh their convenience.'
Nine days later, another email states that Clinton approached Boswell and says she 'gets' the risk.
The
email also said: 'Her attention was drawn to the sentence that
indicates we (the diplomatic security office officials) have
intelligence concerning this vulnerability during her recent trip to
Asia.'
Clinton traveled to China, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea in February 2009.
The
presumptive Democratic presidential nominee turned over to the State
Department 55,000 emails from her private server that were sent or
received when she was secretary of state.
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