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Search Hillary Clinton’s Emails
- bishnu 11y agoThe banality of it all is what strikes me. A personal favorite: http://graphics.wsj.com/hillary-clinton-email-documents/#/?docid=C05787922 http://graphics.wsj.com/hillary-clinton-email-documents/#/?d... Been there, Hil :)
- asdfghjklmnbvcx 11y agopls print
- taurath 11y agoImagine if linkedin had captured her phone contacts through one of their scummy links - might be some interesting people there.
- chishaku 11y agoAll the interesting stuff has been [ ].
- samstave 11y agoExactly. If anyone were to think that hillarys email server was not wiped with cloth prior to any of this BS - they'd be a full on idiot.
- pbreit 11y agoWell, every email exists in at least one other email account as well.
- GabrielF00 11y agoPlus a lot of stuff that's probably not very interesting.
- SCAQTony 11y agoExactly! Like that scene in Doctor Strangelove when the President calls the Prime Minister of Russia to deliver the bad news that a errant US bomber with a nuke is heading towards Russia and the Russian Prime Minister complains that he only calls them when he has bad news.
- mtimjones 11y agoBecause who knows what other damage this idiot (Hillary) has done...
- awakeasleep 11y agoChelsea's email to B & H about her experience in Haiti is an informative read. I had assumed our disaster mitigation/rescue NGOs were a lot more effective than they actually are. They sound pretty awful, reading that email.
- argonaut 11y agoYeah. Someone I know who briefly worked at the UN had some interesting stories about incompetence and politics where factional lines were drawn by nationality.
- orbitingpluto 11y agoI got sat next to a CIDA worker at a wedding. She talked about her duties ensuring that a Canadian agency head was provided with adequate and hygienic toilets in Haiti. Reports included trips to various places and pictures of each possible crapper along the way. Tax dollars at work... Can you imagine being the lead team on that? The existential ennui alone about the pointlessness of it all. edit:forgot to mention that it was Haiti, acronym is CIDA, not CANAID
- ethbro 11y agoThe late Michael Hastings' The Operators was a good read if you find the sausage making process interesting. He has a strong viewpoint, but stories of Gen McChrystal throwing out ISAF functionaries from plush offices and closing officer bars at the Kabul ISAF headquarters were fairly humorous. There were overriding politics between superiors, but the irony is that McChrystal, any infeasible strategy aside, got thrown out for showing distain for the same wasteful, corrupt system that everyone else gripes about.
- hackuser 11y ago> McChrystal ... got thrown out for showing distain for the same wasteful, corrupt system that everyone else gripes about. OT: IIRC he resigned after he and his staff openly mocked to a journalist the President, VP and others in the chain of command, and their comments were published in Rolling Stone. That's not an effort to end corruption, it's insubordination, apparently widespread in his staff under his leadership, which itself is a form of corruption. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236 http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236
- analog31 11y agoWhile it doesn't excuse Clinton, I think it's a lead pipe cinch that every single politician since Jimmy Carter has used some sort of off-the-books email service.
- irixusr 11y agoI searched by Susan rice and I'm (not) surprised that much of it is redacted, i.e. the people releasing this do not think it's suitable for release to the public. In the end you can't be the most effective Secretary of state (Kissinger's words) in decades and not be emailing top secret material
- Blahah 11y agoCan someone explain why this is happening for us non-Americans (or possibly just me if I missed some major news event)?
- spydum 11y agoHillary Clinton used her on personal email server and address to conduct official business while serving as Secretary of State for the US (she's not the first to do this, Sarah Palin - former Governer of Alaska had similar problems I believe). Two problems (at least): - that is not permitted especially when handling Confidential/TopSecret material. You have to use their services/devices/etc so that they maintain control and accountability. - all communication with public officials is archived and made public (once vetted/redacted as appropriate I'd assume), and is part of public record. If using private services, those communications will also be made public.
- Pyxl101 11y ago> all communication with public officials is archived and made public Is that all communication period, or only communication with them while they're acting in their capacity as a public official? How do public officials keep their legitimately personal business private? (E.g., having an affair). Can their personal email accounts be opened up and made public at any time? I'm curious.
- douche 11y ago> How do public officials keep their legitimately personal business private? (E.g., having an affair) If there's any grains of truth in House of Cards, I assume burner phones
- comex 11y agoThe latter. You can still use personal accounts for personal matters. http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/toolkit/pdf/ID317.pdf http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/toolkit/pdf/ID317.pdf http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/04/02/396823014/fact-check-hillary-clinton-those-emails-and-the-law http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/04/02/396823...
- dpweb 11y agoWhat striking to me, however certainly expected, is all the sycophantic drivel heaped onto a powerful person. "You looked fabulous", "we were discussing how incredible you are". Perhaps aides think somehow they are being supportive, but if I were that powerful person, I believe I would rather just a few people I trust to tell me when I'm effing up - than everyone telling me how fantastic I am.
- ethbro 11y agoThe State Department is a slow organization with internal careers. I feel like you see the same in a lot of other career, conservative, small number at the top, higher payoff if you get there fields (legal, medical, academia, finance). The amount of effort required to be sycophantic is minor in relation to the past 10+ years of work that your superior could torpedo on a whim.
- scottkduncan 11y agoExcept that most of the people communicating directly with Secretary Clinton would have been political appointees who would have joined the organization from the outside. Don't get me wrong, it's still a hierarchical, traditional organization.
- dragonwriter 11y agoPolitical appointees' careers are even more dependent on the whin of their superiors than career civil servants.
- cubano 11y agoIn lieu of actual achievement and hard work, ass-kissing such as this is what political connection selects for, so it is hardly surprising to me that these emails are littered with such "sycophantic drivel."
- samstave 11y agoApply this to all her email: https://sense2vec.spacy.io/ https://sense2vec.spacy.io/
- Wargog 11y agoOh cool, top secret files in a searchable index :|
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- yolesaber 11y agoNeat, but the search interface needs some work. You can choose a sender/recipient but you can't specify whether they are the sender or receiver. I was trying to sort by all emails sent by H, but you don't seem to be able to do that. Still very cool. Favorite headline so far: H: HIGHLY IMPORTANT! COMPREHENSIVE INTEL REPORT ON LIBYA. AND DRINK 8 GLASSES OF WATER. SID P.S. search for 'mini' to get granular breakdowns of H's schedule.
- wcummings 11y agoHopefully wikileaks will mirror it, their search is decent
- clamprecht 11y agoSearch for wikileaks, you'll see how concerned they are with it. They get a periodic update of how worldwide media are covering wikileaks.
- spydum 11y ago"Today, in 2011, I'm giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration's improbable MVP in the technology realm. " http://graphics.wsj.com/hillary-clinton-email-documents/pdfs/C05778327.pdf http://graphics.wsj.com/hillary-clinton-email-documents/pdfs...
- awqrre 11y agoObamaLeaks http://graphics.wsj.com/hillary-clinton-email-documents/pdfs/C05794787.pdf http://graphics.wsj.com/hillary-clinton-email-documents/pdfs...
- bpicolo 11y agoWonder what's classified related to Price Waterhouse
- lknmtlkwenf 11y agoInteresting to note that searching using terms to probe her connections to the financial industry brings back a bunch of heavily redacted emails.
- ytjohn 11y agoThere's one with the subject "Koch" that is completely blanked out.
- redwyvern 11y agoRead "Flowers"
- kr7 11y agoThey redacted Sidney Blumenthal's email domain, but they did not redact the email headers from this email: http://graphics.wsj.com/hillary-clinton-email-documents/pdfs/C05791488.pdf http://graphics.wsj.com/hillary-clinton-email-documents/pdfs... Looks like he had an @aol.com address, which matches up with the length of the redacted bit and you can even see the top of the 'l' in some cases.
- glitch003 11y agoI'm not sure how well the search actually works. I searched for "fart" in the "Search email text" field, and it returns 2 emails as results, but they don't contain the word "fart" as far as I can tell. Can anyone else confirm this? And does anyone have any idea why this would happen? Some kind of partial text match? One of the 2 results definitely doesn't contain the substring "fart" anywhere: "will be available in 10 minutes, per ops. They will connect you as soon as she calls in. "
- dandelany 11y agoSearch works fine for me. Do a select all/copy on the document text and paste into a text editor - you'll see that in both cases the OCR has misinterpreted other words as "fart" due to overlapping with redaction boxes.
- bhz 11y agoThe OCR is flaky. The first email has "Release in Part" and the 'Part' is coming up as 'Fart' after OCR. And in the second email the word "fact" is coming up as "fart". If you download the PDFs you can search by text and it matches on your search term. I have to say that I am sad no one actually said "fart".
- throwaway_exer 11y agoAll politicians have personal email servers before they're elected and after they are un-elected. It's human nature that there is a transition time between pre-election and post-election in which personal email will continue to be used. Rarely do analysis pieces mention this fact. If our government really cared about that, they would have dedicated IT staff to onboarding new officials with systems that actually work.
- seecmb 11y agoHi, I'm one of the developers of this interactive graphic. If our search isn't doing it for you, why not download all the emails yourself? Check out our code to build a SQLite full-text database https://github.com/wsjdata/clinton-email-cruncher https://github.com/wsjdata/clinton-email-cruncher
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- clamprecht 11y agoIf someone does this, and wants to use a full-text search-as-a-service to power the search, I'll provide a free Searchify account for it (I'm the founder). For example code, see our Enron email search demo: http://gosearchify.herokuapp.com/ http://gosearchify.herokuapp.com/
- hanniabu 11y agoThank you for offering this to any takers. I personally don't have the know-how to do this but if somebody out there does, it would be great if you could donate your time.
- cvwright 11y agoThank you! It's amazing how painful they make this, when they could just release the &*^%$ text files. It's almost a wonder they don't send the docs to you in hardcopy, printed in 4-point font like Lavabit.
- rsync 11y agoI can't shake the feeling that this was all part of the plan. We all learn of the true value and humanity of The Hillary by reading her true, uncensored, selfless self. Now we know who She Really Is(TM). Plans within plans within plans ...
- quantail 11y agoThe content seems very banal and will only serve to humanize her in the coming primaries. Super Tuesday is March 1st. The timing is uncanny.
- quantail 11y agoThe different email addresses seem to contain interesting classification. HRC16, HDR22 and HRC17 are some that jumped out. HRC1 & HRC2 must of been some particularly lofty circles.
- oofabz 11y agoI tried searching for middle-east-related keywords, and got tons of hits. Then I tried searching for Central American and South American topics, and got very little. It's a shame that the Mexican drug cartels, the murders in Central America, and the economic rise of Brazil/Argentina are not given more priority by our government. These are both the greatest threats to and the largest opportunities for the US.
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- swasheck 11y agohmmm. no hits for "Lewinski."
- dheera 11y agoI don't get it. She used a personal account for official business. That's against policy, I get that part. But why are we punishing her by releasing all of those e-mails to the general public? That sounds like a very unorthodox punishment.
- jml7c5 11y agoIt's the result of Freedom of Information Act requests. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controversy#Freedom_of_Information_lawsuits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controve...
- dheera 11y agoSo I still don't get why we can open private communications to everyone, or what purpose that serves but to (1) humiliate her and (2) expose her to identity theft risk, neither of which are usual forms of punishment. Why not just fine her, ban her from working for the government, or some other similar punishment? Also, what about the fact that I write SO many e-mails using special language, inside jokes that only the other party would know, PGP, foreign languages, self-modified languages, and so on? What if in my communications with a particular friend, red meant blue, blue meant red, building meant banana, and foreign meant domestic? What if she encoded deeper meaning into what is seemingly innocuous English text? If I knew that I was at risk of being victimized by such a system and having my e-mails exposed, you can be sure that I would use language like that. Or simply avoid using English, use a smattering of 20 different obscure tribal languages, and write my e-mails in a form with hidden meanings that I would agree in advance with the receiving party. Just to make it hard for everyone who really shouldn't be reading my e-mails. And then use PGP on top of that, although PGP is probably ineffective against this [0], but the smattering of tribal languages and English language mappings would at least make it deliberately hard and annoying. Why is it that "being secretary of state" all of a sudden means that you have no right to the same level of privacy, identity protection, and security that everyone else has in the country? [0] https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/
- mladenkovacevic 11y agoIt's fun to search for "Syria" then go the second last page and read a curious e-mail from Sept. 2009 about "the first known case of a successful social media campaign in Syria".. Then a few pages later, June 2010 - "Bay Area execs seek to open doors with Syria" about a trip that Hillary's staff took part in including the infamous Jared Cohen whom Julian Assange talked about in one of his rants (https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/). One could weave a compelling conspiracy theory if one were so inclined.
- rrggrr 11y agoDoes anyone doubt a grand that a Grand Jury would indict based on this evidence alone? I would like to see a Judge or Jury hear evidence and render a verdict here.
- DrScump 11y agoIf that were to happen before January, Obama would just issue a final-day pardon to quash it.
- fineIllregister 11y agoWhy are they scanned pdfs of printed copies of the original e-mails? It's clear in several of these e-mails there are hyperlinks, which are completely lost.
- ForHackernews 11y agoFrequently when the government is forced to release documents by FOIA requests, they do in the most deliberately inconvenient way possible. Previous example: https://www.propublica.org/blog/item/a-readers-guide-to-the-sarah-palin-emails https://www.propublica.org/blog/item/a-readers-guide-to-the-... > The emails, which presumably could fit on a few discs, now fit in six boxes and weigh 250 pounds per set. Journalists have trekked to Juneau to pick up them up. (Mother Jones notes that the state is helpfully lending journalists “hand trucks” for hauling the boxes out.)
- brbsix 11y agoPer her request, the emails didn't leave her server in digital form. They were printed out, 55,000 pages of them. It's akin to something like paying your property tax in pennies. Probably served as a nice "fuck you" to have them delivered as such. It also makes any sort of meaningful forensic auditing impossible.
- wdr1 11y agoGiven these are email, why the heck is the government providing PDFs of printouts? Why aren't they providing a text version?
- yincrash 11y agoOne reason (of probably a few that add up), is that it's safer to redact a printed copy than a digital copy that might have metadata hidden to reveal the original pre-redacted information.