Hillary Clinton is one person on the world stage who most personally felt the impact of wikileaks since she was the one who had to make the “apology tour” in late 2010 and early 2011. She spoke in San Francisco this morning on issues surrounding privacy of electronic data. No transcript is available, but this account appears to be fair and balanced.
Hillary Clinton talks NSA and privacy, data security, tech jobs in San Francisco
Summary: “I’m not an expert on software-defined storage or the intricacies of cloud computing,” Clinton quipped.
By Rachel King for Between the Lines | August 28, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO—Privacy and security are in a necessary but inevitable tension, reflected former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton while speaking at data storage and software provider Nexenta‘s OpenSDx Summit on Thursday.
Proposing this debate has been going on in the United States since the days of the Founding Fathers (with Clinton trading out “privacy” for “liberty”), Clinton observed how concerns over privacy reached a fever pitch following the revelations about the National Security Agency last year.
In the wake of wikileaks, everyone expected her meeting with Angela Merkel (and other world leaders) to be awkward. Her charm offensive defused a potentially explosive situation.
This aspect of the speech is virtually bring ignored by the media which is obsessed with her statement on Ferguson. According to them, it’s too late. She should have spoken out in the middle of the crisis so they could accuse her of opportunism and caving to Al Sharpton. This is the perfect example of the “double bind” she faces constantly:damned if she does, and damned if she doesn’t. Personally, I thought her statement on Ferguson was pitch perfect and thoughtful.
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This, of course, being the actual topic of the speech.
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here’s someone who gets it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/08/29/nobody-really-noticed-but-hillary-clinton-has-made-the-boldest-comments-on-ferguson-and-race/
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Re Marc Lamont Hill: Why are we expected to take seriously someone who claims to know what is in another person’s mind and heart? This is another example of how even when Hillary admittedly does the right thing, she must be trashed. Fault must be found.
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They will never admit it, but the Democratic Party did not uncover some old wound in 2008. It inflicted a new one that it stitched up very badly. Hillary has done her level best, in her work and in her book to pull the edges together, but when you see a comment like that you realize that some of the damage is probably permanent.
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Are some of these people on the left even Dems? I wonder if s lot of them are Grreens who realized they’d never win an election, so they latched on to Obama and began calling themselves Democrats. And the media bizarrely refers to them as the base of the party. (Pardon the typos; I have a 3 yr old hanging on me!)
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🙂 That’s a good question!
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It would be interesting to know what happened between his two tweets that made him decide to completely reverse himself.
And there is nothing in what she said that can reasonably be called triangulation. That’s just a hackneyed old word they use to mindlessly trash the Clintons.
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exactly. hillary was very straightforward in what she said about ferguson. her response can’t remotely be called triangulation.
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I was struggling to understand that triangulation comment.. and you know, I thought may be I dont understand the word triangulation. haha… Hillary mad a very straightforward statement and they have to find every way to find ulterior motives and go trash digging in every word, tone and body language aspect whether or not they have a leg to stand on. Hillary was and is totally genuine. I hope they get it some day.
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i found it telling that the author mentioned lefties with buyer’s remorse about obama as some of the people guilty of holding hillary to an impossible standard; i think she’s absolutely right.
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Yes, the author of the article strongly suggested that some progressives are projecting their “buyer’s remorse” over Obama on to Hillary. If that’s the case, they need professional help!
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OMG, so true!! Yes, some specific reporters have their mind made up and will not be honest with even themselves when it comes to Hillary.
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HI folks, I didn’t see this one here yet… so thought I’d just share..
Pregnant Chelsea Clinton QUITS her six-figure salary job at NBC
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2737802/Chelsea-Clinton-quits-600-000-year-role-special-correspondent-NBC.html
and
Chelsea Clinton Is Leaving NBC News
http://www.people.com/article/chelsea-clinton-leaving-nbc-news
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I saw it and really resented their use of t word “quit.” I doubt that Chelsea used that word and probably resigned using much more graceful wording. She has a baby coming and people are twisted like pretzels over that reported salary. Just another story for everybody to jump all over Chelsea about. Clintons are not “quitters.”
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Still people need to get over themselves. I bet someone 100 dollas that after she has her baby and Chelsea makes her first public appearance people are gonna say that she’s not spending time with her baby. NBC is a messed up network that’s going down the tubes, Chelsea was never in a long term contract with nbc.
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Rachel, you will almost certainly win that bet!
BTW, there’s a gracious resignation letter from Chelsea linked on her Twitter account and posted on Facebook. I tend to avoid the daily mail’s Clinton coverage, which resembles the national enquirer. 🙂
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BTW, why is Rand Paul saying Hillary is disqualified to run for president because of Benghazi even news anymore? He makes that claim every week, like a broken record.
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PYW I was just thinking didn’t he say that a few times already lol.
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