RNC Research

In Hillary Clinton’s Tuesday press conference, she oddly pointed to the Secret Service protection her server received to claim it was secure. What she didn’t say, and what her de facto spokespeople in the State Department or White House couldn’t verify, is if it was safe from cyber threats. Because if it wasn’t obvious, guards outside the doors can’t do a thing to stop hackers coming through the wires.

Now The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Hillary Clinton’s private email system did not have encryption protection until March 29, 2009- leaving it vulnerable during the first two months of her tenure as secretary of state.

Kevin Bocek, a vice president at the Internet security company Venafi, said the Clinton server was encrypting data it sent and received as of March 29, 2009, about two months after she took office, based on a search he did of Internet records. During the first two months of her tenure, however, it doesn’t appear that Mrs. Clinton’s email had such protections, Mr. Bocek said.

And when we learn what she did during these early months, the story gets worse.

In February, Clinton took her first official trip overseas included a visit to China, a country Clinton specifically accused of cyber attacks while she was Secretary.

And by early March, Clinton was busy “ resetting” relations with her counterpart from Russia.

Russia and China are among of countries that she pointed to as cyber-threats, noting that they “that have perpetrated cyberattacks against the U.S.”