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"How much energy would I expend if I were still director of the National Security Agency and someone told me I could get access to the unclassified email server of [Russian Foreign Minister] Sergei Lavrov? I'd move heaven and Earth to do that. And here you've got these private, intimate conversations by a senior official of the US government sitting out there in what I would call an unprotected environment."Hayden added that, in all likelihood, the fact that Clinton used a private server was well known to foreign intelligence agencies, making it a priority target. "I would lose all respect for a whole bunch of foreign intelligence agencies if they weren't sitting back, paging through the emails," he said.
The Russian ceasefire monitoring center near Latakia says it is verifying reports of an attack on the Kurdish town Tell Abyad in northern Syria carried out by militants coming from Turkey. The reports came overnight and claim that the forces coming from Turkey are using heavy artillery, according to Lt. Gen. Sergey Kuralenko, who heads the center for Syrian reconciliation. "This information was verified through multiple channels, including representatives of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), [a rebel alliance that includes Kurds, Arabs and other ethnic groups and operates in the region]," he said.
Russian military report: Syrian town attacked by militants from Turkey
Comment: Some surprising common sense coming from an ex-MI6 agent!