Hillary Clinton was denied a secure BlackBerry by the NSA in 2009
By: Tom Manning - March 17, 2016

When Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State in 2009, she requested a secure, BlackBerry-like device from the government. The NSA said, "no." Apparently, Hillary had been using a BlackBerry during the 2008 campaign and had come to rely on it.

Emails recently released by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal advocacy group that obtained them under a freedom of information act request, showed Clinton wanted a mobile device. Her request was denied.

“We began examining options for (Secretary Clinton) with respect to secure ‘Blackberry-like’ communications,” wrote Donald R. Reid, the department’s assistant director for security infrastructure. “The current state of the art is not too user friendly, has no infrastructure at State, and is very expensive.”

Reid wrote that each time they asked NSA what solution they had worked up to provide a mobile device to Obama, “we were politely told to shut up and color.”


Several people received waivers to use BlackBerrys in their secure offices during the Bush administration, but that practice was shut down over security concerns. It appears that once Hillary was denied use of a mobile device, she decided to use her own BlackBerry for government business instead. Very dumb move, Hillary!

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