Hillary really is missing her device for the most part.  She is reaching out to her seniors, urging them to find the means to safer communication technology for goverment officials and secret service.

“I’ve been deprived of my BlackBerry, so – at least during the day,” said the former first lady yesterday while responding to a question from one of the State Department employees on use of social networking technological tools like Face Book and MySpace in enhancing department’s diplomatic efforts and business goals. 

“The United Staes government has been pretty slow in coming to grips with technology,” she said. 

“I remember when Bill (Clinton) and I arrived in the White House, we had rotary phones. I mean, and I’ll tell you what, they didn’t even still have rotary phones in Arkansas. We were way, way ahead of that,” she said. 

Bill Clinton was the Governor of Arkansas, before becoming the US President. 

Observing that the government department is behind nearly everybody, except in certain discrete areas, in terms of technology, Clinton said: “We are, in my view, wasting time, wasting money, wasting opportunities, because we are not prepared to communicate effectively with what is out there in the business world and the private world.” 

She said: “So I care passionately about this, especially since I’ve been deprived of my BlackBerry, so – at least during the day, anyway – so, I am, again, soliciting your advice.”

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