So, they will be discussing Hillary's private email at tonight's debate, right?

Jim Geraghty writes at National Review,

New Documents Confirm Hillary’s Server Was Vulnerable to Hackers

A big portion of the debate tonight has to discuss this, right? It can’t just be five Democrats all agreeing that Republicans are the source of all evil, right?

The private email server running in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s home basement when she was secretary of state was connected to the Internet in ways that made it more vulnerable to hackers, according to data and documents reviewed by The Associated Press.

Clinton’s server, which handled her personal and State Department correspondence, appeared to allow users to connect openly over the Internet to control it remotely, according to detailed records compiled in 2012. Experts said the Microsoft remote desktop service wasn’t intended for such use without additional protective measures, and was the subject of U.S. government and industry warnings at the time over attacks from even low-skilled intruders.

Records show that Clinton additionally operated two more devices on her home network in Chappaqua, New York, that also were directly accessible from the Internet. One contained similar remote-control software that also has suffered from security vulnerabilities, known as Virtual Network Computing, and the other appeared to be configured to run websites.

Recall that a former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency has already told us that her e-mails were probably hacked by foreign intelligence:

Despite Hillary Clinton’s insistence that her personal e-mail account was properly secured, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn told Fox News on Monday that the account had “likely” been hacked by adversarial foreign governments.

The former Defense Intelligence Agency director said that there was a “very high” chance that Clinton’s e-mail had been breached by China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea. He added that even allied countries may have gotten in on the action, just “because they can.” Flynn said that while in theory Clinton could have secured her account and server well-enough to deter hackers, he remained skeptical that she actually had.

“I just know how our adversaries work,” he said. Flynn also took issue with Clinton’s explanation that she used the personal e-mail address rather than an official State Department one because she found it convenient to carry just one device.

“As a military officer, if I said I was doing something for convenience’s sake to the soldiers I was leading, and it was solely for my convenience instead of their welfare, I should be relieved of duty — I would expect to be fired,” he said.

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Fair and Balanced

Did you know that tonight's debate moderator, Anderson Cooper, has been a member of the Clinton Global Initiative? Andrew Kirell reported in May for Mediaite that the following media bigshots were also members:

In a nutshell, Anderson Cooper helped Hillary Clinton raise money, and now he's presented as an impartial moderator for tonight's debate.

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CNN not expecting many viewers for tonight's first Democrat debate

Tonight is the first Democrat debate among the presidential candidates. Are you excited? I didn't think so. Neither does CNN, which will be hosting the debate. Emily Zanotti reports at American Spectator,

While I won’t predict ratings for this debate, we expect the audience to be significantly smaller,” said CNN Washington Bureau Chief Sam Feist.

Zanotti suggests,

The solution here, of course, would be to give America what they want and allow Donald Trump to participate in this debate, as well. Heck, the guy is basically a Democrat, anyway, why not allow him to take on the liberal Establishment as well as the conservative one?

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