It would present an “opportunity” for spy agencies if the foreign minister of Russian Federation or Iran were to use a private email server for official business, the chief of the US National Security Agency said.
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Islamic State aren’t interested in stability and want to “tear the status quo down”, Rogers told the Senate intelligence panel during a hearing on Thursday.
On Tuesday night, Clinton suggested to the Des Moines Register that her server may have been more secure than the State Department’s.
Rogers replied, “If you want to paint it very broadly like that…then my view is, yes”. Rogers responded testily when Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) asked whether the server might have posed security risks.
In rare open hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday afternoon, Rogers was tasked with pitching his agency to the American people. “I’d be the first to admit I’m not smart about what the rules and regulations are for every element across the federal government”.
“Are the communications of the senior-most advisors to the president of the United States-even those that may be unclassified-a top priority for foreign intelligence services, in your opinion?” Sen.
The head of the NSA has acknowledged that if the government acquired encryption keys, it “creates more opportunities for malicious actors or foreign hackers to get access to the key”. Those concerns have only been compounded by revelations that some of the information contained in her emails is now classified.
Cotton: “Are you aware of any NSA officials who were aware that Secretary Clinton had a private email account and server?”
“I don’t see the relevance of that to this committee”, Feinstein said after Cotton’s questions, “however that’s just my opinion”.
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Rogers, stressing that he wasn’t there at the time and had no idea, told Cotton he would check his records and get back to him.
