Cybersecurity

NSA Director: Foreign Spies Would See Clinton’s Emails as a Target

National Security Administration director Mike Rogers confirmed Thursday that Hillary Clinton’s email correspondence would have been a top priority for foreign spies and hackers, the Associated Pressreported.

“Are the communications of the senior-most advisors to the president of the United States—even those that may be unclassified—a top priority for foreign intelligence services, in your opinion?” Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) asked in a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

“Yes,” Rogers said.

Rogers said that if another country’s foreign minister used a private server for email, U.S. spies would see that as an “opportunity” to exploit a security lapse.