{"id":48186,"date":"2016-09-08T11:49:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=48186"},"modified":"2016-09-08T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:50:46","slug":"clinton-bought-old-blackberrys-on-ebay-top-republican-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=48186","title":{"rendered":"Clinton bought old BlackBerrys on eBay \u2013 top Republican Congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton \u00a9 Carlo Allegri \/ Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hillary Clinton bought used BlackBerry phones on eBay, as she preferred the older versions of the device, creating a massive security risk, according to Republican Congressmen and House Oversight Chairman, Jason Chaffetz.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to get into this too much, but part of what was happening with the secretary of state was, she was acquiring technology that wasn\u2019t even supported by BlackBerry,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the House Oversight Chairman said in Washington, DC on Wednesday, according to the Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This was a serious\u00a0\u201cvulnerability,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0according to Chaffetz.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a huge problem with personnel,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.\u00a0\u201cShe was actually buying this stuff off of eBay because somebody was selling their old machine. That’s what she liked, so she did.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Read more \u00a0\u00a0FBI releases 58 pages of Clinton email probe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nChaffetz, who is leading a congressional investigation into Clinton, spoke a week after the FBI released new details in its own investigation into Clinton\u2019s use of a private email server for classified communications.<\/p>\n

Of the 13 devices used over four years, there were eight BlackBerry devices. Clinton had first requested that the NSA custom-build her one like they did for President Barack Obama, but they refused, so she used her own BlackBerry.<\/p>\n

According to the FBI report, she would often lose her device.<\/p>\n

Clinton\u2019s aide apparently used a hammer to destroy the ones she was no longer using, according to the FBI.<\/p>\n

The aide remembers two phones he broke in half or hit with a hammer. He was also the person who set up Clinton\u2019s email domain. He had neither the clearance nor the computer security expertise to handle any of these matters, according to people briefed on the setup, the Washington Post reported.<\/p>\n

Whenever Clinton switched to a new device, she often had aides change her SIM cards for her. Clinton kept maintaining she did not remember receiving training on how to handle classified information, and believes no one was ever worried about her using a private server to handle government emails.<\/p>\n

None of the BlackBerrys were provided to the FBI in the course of their investigation, according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n

The FBI says it will not pursue a second investigation, but Chaffetz appears intent on seeing things through, especially as conservative watchdog Judicial Watch believes her Benghazi cover-up to be\u00a0\u201cas plain as day,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0given their view that Clinton or her aides deleted material from her devices pertaining to the attack in Benghazi.<\/p>\n

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