Posted on 04/28/2016 10:34:01 AM PDT by blueunicorn6
Those of us who have handled Classified government information are aghast at how Hillary Clinton handled Classified government information in such an intentionally careless way. We, including Hillary Clinton, were very specifically informed that the careless handling of Classified government information would result in imprisonment by, or killing by, the government. It is life and death serious. There is nothing more serious. We know how wrong her behavior was. But, does the average Democrat voter understand how wrong her behavior was?
It is critical that some words and concepts are understood by all Americans. Hillary Clinton is basing the defense of her misdeeds on the fact that most Americans do not understand certain words and concepts instrumental to understanding how Classified government information must be handled.
What does "Classified" mean concerning government information?
"Classified" government information is information that must be protected. As a bank vault protects your money, "Classifying" government information protects that government information. It makes that government information unavailable to just anyone. Only certain people are allowed to know Classified information. To be given access to Classified government information is to be given special trust by the government. The people of The United States trust that you will protect this information.
Is "Classified" just a word on some paper?
No. It is the information that is Classified or protected. The ink, the electrons or the air passing over vocal chords is not protected. It is the information that must be protected. So, if you read Classified information on a computer screen and then take a picture of that computer screen, the photo in the camera is now to be protected. The information is to be protected. If you see Classified information on a piece of paper and then tell people not entrusted to know that information what you saw and read, then you did not protect that information. You betrayed the trust of the citizens of The United States.
What is a "Security Classification"?
It is a word used by our government to signify who may be entrusted to know and protect that particular government information. Some of these words are "Confidential", "Secret" and "Top Secret". The words provide a common understanding to those handling protected government information as to who can see or know this information. These words are often placed at the top and bottom of any page that contains Classified government information to be a reminder to the reader that only people entrusted by the citizens of The United States to know that information may see the document. Again, it is the government information that must be protected, not the Security Classification by itself.
Is other information in our society "Classified" or protected?
Yes. The information between a lawyer and a client is protected. in adversarial or contested venues, much information is protected. Many employees in the business world are required to sign "Non-Disclosure Statements" and they are forbidden by their employer from not protecting certain business information. We live in an adversarial world. Every other nation competes with us economically and militarily.
Would Hillary Clinton understand that not protecting Classified government information is wrong, dangerous and criminal?
Of course she knew. She went to law school. She was a lawyer. She knew right away that certain information is to be protected. She was taught about protecting information from clients. She also, throughout her adult years, has attempted to protect certain information that she thought necessary to protect. Her dealing with Whitewater comes to mind. She was also, as the President's wife and as a United States Senator made fully aware that some government information must be protected. Some information is "Classified" and meant for only trusted people to see and know.
Did Hillary Clinton have access as the US Secretary of State to communications systems that were protected?
Yes.
Did she use them exclusively with protected government information?
No. She had her own communication system installed that did not protect Classified government information.
Why did she do that?
I don't know and it really doesn't matter. She willfully sent and received Classified government information on a non-protected communications system. That instantly makes her guilty of espionage. Espionage is giving access to protected government information to people who have not been entrusted by the citizens of The United States to have that government information. It does not matter if that was done carelessly or willfully. That would only play a part in determining the severity of the punishment given for the espionage.
Hillary Clinton did not protect Classified government information. She allowed anybody on the street to come into the bank and take your money.
The presumption is and must be; *Any* intergovernmental communication from the Secy of State is classified the minute it is rendered into a transmittable form of any kind; whether that form is a sentence that can be spoken, a photograph, a map, a list of names, a schedule of meetings, anything. As soon as she writes it down or types it, it has to be presumed classified. It does not have to be transmitted to someone who can vet the gravity of the information and then get back to HRC with the proper rubber stamp on the document. It’s classified upon generation. It is no more complicated than that and is completely stupid and incoherent to even imagine otherwise.
We know about Benghazi and the four who died there; We will never know how many operatives were killed or compromised through her carelessness or fecklessness or traitiousness. She should be jail right now.
Recall that in the Bill Clinton WH there were many senior political staff who never got security clearances. They handled such material anyway in an in-your-face violation of the law and historical practice. They got away with it then and if there’s one thing Hillary has learned in her career it is if you get away with something brazen then go for more next time. Hillary’s parallel private State Dept is just an expected outgrowth of the Clintons’ previous successful flouting of national security laws and practices. Should she become President we can expect further escalation of the corruption.
It’s worth pointing out the definitions that many of us were required to memorize:
(1) “Top Secret” shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.
(2) “Secret” shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage to the national security.
(3) “Confidential” shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause damage to the national security.
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I knew people who did far less than Hillary and ended up in prison for many years. Knowing what Hillary mishandled, I do not believe that her supporters in government were sincere in their pretense that she did nothing criminal. Simple negligence with crypto materials often led to long-term consequences, and her actions were intentional and just as damaging.
What category is it when you stuff it down your socks to sneak it out of the NSA? I mean if we're gonna get all Clintonista again, we need to remember how they do things?
I wonder if how much she spends on Depends and on cheap scotch is “classified”??? Just askin’...
The category is “felon”, except that Hillary and her cronies are all above what passes for the law under this administration. Obama and his minions disgust me.
If she does win office, the White House plumber will have to lower that sink Bill used to use. Keepin it Huma fresh.
Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House by Gary Aldrich...what he witnessed in the first months of the Clinton administration left him deeply troubled. Then alarmed. Then angered. And finally, halfway through Clinton's term, so thoroughly outraged that he felt compelled in conscience to leave the FBI. Unlimited Access is Aldrich's electrifying expose of a presidential administration with a great deal to hide - and willing to put America at risk to keep it hidden. Aldrich describes how a comprehensive security system that had been perfected through six presidencies was systematically dismantled by the Clintons so they could bring their friends into the White House - friends that previous administrations would have barred because of serious ethical or legal problems, some prosecutable.
You assume that liberals live in the real world. They don’t and they refuse to believe it exists.
The average Democrat voters don’t care that Hillary Clinton was selling classified information to the highest bidder and laundering the money through the Clinton Foundation. In fact, they probably think that her treason is really very cool. They hate America and have made allies of the Islamofascists that want to destroy this country. Personally, I would like to see Hillary indicted, tried for treason, convicted, and executed. That includes anyone else who aided and abetted her treason, no matter what their exalted position.
Years ago two guys in my squadron misplaced a classified document. It was a training manual classified “Secret” which the Russians had had for years. The resulting panic turned the entire squadron upside-down for a day. Now, Hillary can release far more damaging information times 10,000 and anyone who criticizes her is a “woman-hating bigot.” As a country we are walking chin-first into a meat grinder.
I once accidentally went home with a training SOI (codebook) in my pocket, after weeks in the field. I called my commander immediately...hoping he would let me keep it on my person that night and bring back the next day, since I was exhausted.
Nope: Get it back in the company safe ASAP.
To see what she did is just sickening, really.
They will think it’s cool if they think it doesn’t affect them.
Somehow, they have to be made to understand that this affects them.
Aghast doesn’t even begin to cover it. She knew. Sec State has “original classification authority.” Her contention that she didn’t know because the information wasn’t marked is a lie. At best it is an admission by her that she lacks the good judgment to determine what information should be protected or not - in other words she should not have original classification authority and should not be put in a position of trust. Her excuse is an admission of inadequacy and ineptitude and is an immediate and unequivocal disqualification from consideration for President.
The magnitude of her crimes may never be known. There are two crime and evidence areas here. The first is the whole email/server national security, classified, Top Secret, SAP, opening a back door to our whole Federal database issue. With each violation, how many thousand misdemeanors and felonies are we talking about? How many potential indictable offenses? The second it the whole Clinton Foundation, Clinton Global initiative money laundering quid pro quo crime syndicate. How many Federal, Banking, tax evasion, RICO laws and statutes were violated in the operation of said syndicate? No wonder the FBI is taking so long to give us their results.
I've heard they've concluded their findings with the email/server scandal and are ready to recommend indictment to Loretta Lynch. The Clinton Foundation/Clinton Global Initiative racket is taking much longer. Theoretically, it may take years to get to the bottom of all the networks, favors, donations and connecting all the dots with indictable evidence.
The very best situation you can think of if this were an average citizen working in say, the Pentagon, would be arrest, investigation and maybe out on bail with home arrest with an ankle monitor waiting for the next step. In reality, said person would probably be waiting in jail.
But wait. . the person I'm alluding to is running for President! How can this be? Lives were certainly lost. Benghazi may have been the result of data from her server being conveyed to terrorists. Not to mention the thousands of lives that have been lost in the ME due to hacked data that may have influenced our enemies tactics. All our Top Secret military secrets, DARPA, NSA all the agencies. The magnitude of all of this is very heady stuff. People, lives, governments and whole areas of the world, and all because Hillary wanted her own private server so she could keep all her criminal operations secret and her private life off limits.
Another issue I haven't seen alluded to is the real financial cost to we the taxpayers that the Federal government is currently spending to fix the data breaches, lost material, recovery, etc. I can just imagine the higher up government IT people seeing this whole scenario as an absolute nightmare. The total financial, personal and national security costs? Beyond comprehension.
Rush just mentioned the elites have no idea how powerful the average American's pent up thoughts and feelings are regarding the Clintons. If Trump goes after 'crooked Hillary': the email/server scandal, Benghazi, the bimbo eruptions, all the ignored scandals - won't list them all here - really goes after her, even back to 1994, (Criminal Laws Implicated by the Clinton Scandals: A Partial List), then his numbers will go up. The more he goes after her, the more the whole nation will be doing a one-hour standing ovation. . All thinking, "It's about time!"
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