Emailgateski
by digby
After all the sturm und drang over Clinton having her private and unclassified emails on a private server, this is a wee bit ironic:
Some of President Obama’s email correspondence was swept up by Russian hackers last year in a breach of the White House’s unclassified computer system that was far more intrusive and worrisome than has been publicly acknowledged, according to senior American officials briefed on the investigation.
The hackers, who also got deeply into the State Department’s unclassified system, do not appear to have penetrated closely guarded servers that control the message traffic from Mr. Obama’s BlackBerry, which he or an aide carries constantly.
But they obtained access to the email archives of people inside the White House, and perhaps some outside, with whom Mr. Obama regularly communicated. From those accounts, they reached emails that the president had sent and received, according to officials briefed on the investigation.
White House officials said that no classified networks had been compromised, and that the hackers had collected no classified information. Many senior officials have two computers in their offices, one operating on a highly secure classified network and another connected to the outside world for unclassified communications.
But officials have conceded that the unclassified system routinely contains much information that is considered highly sensitive: schedules, email exchanges with ambassadors and diplomats, discussions of pending personnel moves and legislation, and, inevitably, some debate about policy.
Right. So if Clinton had used the State Department email system for all unclassified work related communications these hackers would have them. And they probably do anyway since most work related emails went to people who used this system.
I dunno. This whole email thing mystified me in the first place since she would have always been making a decision about what emails were private, unclassifed work related and classified anyway. But whatever. It appears our vaunted security experts aren’t that expert … shocked, I am.