Posted on 07/31/2015 3:08:23 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Scott has called today’s McClatchy story about Hillary Clinton’s emails “must read.” I agree.
McClatchy reports that the classified emails known to have been stored on the former Secretary of State’s private server contained information from five intelligence agencies, and included material related to the fatal 2012 Benghazi attacks. And this, if I understand correctly, is just from a sample of 40 emails.
Clinton’s defense continues to be that she “did not send nor received anything that was classified at the time.” (emphasis added) But even if this turns out to be true, it is not a satisfactory response for several reasons.
First, Clinton knew or should have known that some of the material she sent and/or received might well eventually be deemed classified. That’s the nature of the beast. It’s also one of the reasons why officials like Clinton are not supposed to use private email servers. As Bradley Moss, an attorney who specializes in national security matters, told McClatchy:
[T]he fact that classified information was identified within the emails is exactly why use of private emails (Snip)
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
THerefore, the ((deleted) emails my still be recoverable.
She, or whoever does her emails, took MARKED CLASSIFIED information and transposed written portions into unclassified, UNMARKED emails on a non-government, non-certified AIS over unclassified data transmission lines with no NSA/Other agency approved encryption.
The information WAS classified. She violated so many laws it isn’t funny.
Who is going to arrest her?
I say she skates on this just like she has on every other scandel.
You can quiz her...she has no idea what MARKED CLASSIFIED means nor does she care. When she says she had training...no, I don’t believe that for a moment. They probably handed her a one-page orientation sheet and she just winked.
As incompetency goes...on a scale of one to ten....I’d say she’s pushing an eleven. She only ‘sparkles’ if Syd is in the picture and that really says something.
It won’t be anyone in the Obama Administration for sure. If it ever did happen, it would have to be somebody as President who is a real conservative believing in the rule of law. Those kinds of people running now are very few. Very few.
In effect, what Hillary is claiming is that as Secretary of State, she never sent or received classified information. She is testifying to her own incompetence. Was it that no one trusted her with classified information so they sent her none? Or, is she not smart enough to recognize classified information when she see it? Has to be one or the other.
What you say is likely true. But unless every convention, procedure, rule or requirement for gaining access to classified information was bypassed, she had to have signed more than just one piece of paper saying that she “understood” and would “obey the rules and procedures.”
In my fantasies, I dream of someone stepping up to the podium and conducting a “citizen’s” arrest at one of her campaign appearance.
It was and is illegal to use the private server for her State Department business. It was and is illegal to use private e-mail for her State Department business.
She did both and compromised every piece of data involved. Which is also illegal. And then she wiped the server, which is illegal and called a coverup...something she's very familiar with.
Hillary the Witch's defense is what I think of as “the price of tea in China” defense. It has nothing to do with the case against her. And it needs be dismissed out of hand as meaningless.
America needs to concentrate on the charges against Hillary, not her weaseling.
The issue is bigger than Hillary. Does anyone currently use private email in the Regime? Does Obama? Valerie J? Biden? Kerry? Ashton Carter?
If you or I did that, we’d be in Leavenworth.
She probably has Secret Service protection. You wouldn’t get close enough.
And under the heading of “the grace you extend will be the grace you receive”, she could be extended the same access to council she was willing to extend to a sitting president so many years ago.
Last time I signed something the penalties were a minimum 10 years & half million fine for each instance.
The Sec State has "Original Classification Authority." That means that person is entrusted to determine what information is classified, or not. That is far far more rare than "derivative classification."
Obviously Clinton's judgement on what is or should be considered classified is not only highly suspect, but obviously wrong. She screwed up in this regard by making a questionable decision to use a personal server. Clinton then made repeated bad decisions regarding classified material (or information that should have been classified) over and over and over again.
These are the actions of someone with extremely poor judgement. These are the actions of someone who does not demonstrate the proper care and concern for handling of classified material. These are not the actions of someone who should be put in a position of trust. She should be stripped of any security clearance and prosecuted. There is absolutely no way in {expletive} she should be allowed to become President. Absolutely, unquestionably untrustworthy.
I have my doubts on her having inprocessed or signed any papers. I do agree....a normal gov’t employee has like forty things they have to get orientation on or agree to in the first three days of employment. In her case...no, I don’t think you find any folder for inprocessing her into the system. Nor is there any outprocessing folder, just my humble guess.
You may be right, I don’t know conclusively. I DO know if those responsible for whatever “briefings” she got didn’t execute the full procedures, then THEY violated their own rules/regulations and violated the law. Even still, improper briefing does not negate the illegality of what she did. Extenuating circumstances for sentencing, maybe. Absolution of wrongdoing? No.
Quick contest: State is releasing some 5,000 more Clinton emails today. Guess how many will now be classified and held back?
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