Sources: Review affirms Clinton server emails were 'top secret,' despite department challenge

foxnews ^ | 12/15/15 | Catherine Herridge, Pamela Browne

[doldrumsforgop]

An intelligence community review has re-affirmed that two classified emails were indeed “top secret” when they hit Hillary Clinton’s unsecured personal server despite a challenge to that designation by the State Department, according to two sources familiar with the review.

The sources described the dispute over whether the two emails were classified at the highest level as a “settled matter.”

The agencies that owned and originated that intelligence – the CIA and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency or NGA – reviewed the emails to determine how they should be properly stored, as the State Department took issue with their highly classified nature. The subject matter of the messages is widely reported to be the movement of North Korean missiles and a drone strike. A top secret designation requires the highest level of security, and can include the use of an approved safe.

The sources, who were not authorized to speak on the record, told Fox News that while the emails were indeed “top secret” when they hit Clinton’s server, one of them remains “top secret” to this day -- and must be handled at the highest security level. The second email is still considered classified but at the lower “secret” level because more information is publicly available about the event.

The findings have been transmitted to the State Department, which continues to challenge the intelligence community’s conclusions about the classification of all the emails. But the department has no authority to change the classification since it did not originate the information.

Earlier this month, Politico reported that the intelligence community was retreating from the “top secret” classification, a development that could have helped Clinton’s presidential campaign deflect allegations about mishandling classified material. Fox

[doldrumsforgop]

We are no longer in that gray area of simply prison time, and how long. This is treasonous, death-penalty we are talking about now. People died from the actions of the SOS, and it is time to pay the Piper.

[Steely Tom]

Any ordinary person who did what Hillary has done would be financially ruined and on their way to federal prison.

Of course Hillary is not an “ordinary person.”

[TBP]

That’s why she spread them around, isn’t it?

[taterjay]

The fire needs to come down tonight at the debate.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

SOS = Sack Of S###?

[luvbach1]

This is treasonous, death-penalty we are talking about now.

It may be what we are talking about, but Hillary will walk.

[Signalman]

Imagine the hysteria in the MSM if a GOP candidate had stored TS/SCI information on an unsecured server.

[Patton@Bastogne]

[MeshugeMikey]

Rumor has it that not all of tonights debate participants are particularly “hostile”....to hillary

[Uversabound]

Bumper sticker today:

Is it not time for a woman in the WH? (GOD NO!)

This pissed real women off to no end.

[Qiviut]

Rumor has it that not all of tonight’s debate participants are particularly “hostile” .... to hillary

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Jeb! holding out hope for a VP slot? /s

[Vic S]

The FBI needs to look at the specific top secret emails and which country they were about. Then look into donations to the Clinton Foundation (from that country) and Bill Clinton’s negotiations with for speaking deals And even Hillary’s activities with that country as SoS.

[Dante3]

Hillary’s misdeeds should be headlined in all the media.

[be-baw]

So someone who calls himself doldrumsforgop registers 2 days ago and posts an article with a comment calling for the death penalty for hillary. Is this a setup?

[dsrtsage]

Wake me when the (D) falls of the back of her name

[dsrtsage]

“Imagine the hysteria in the MSM if a GOP candidate had stored TS/SCI information on an unsecured server.”

If a GOP? The hysteria would be just as huge if it was a GOPs mothers friends boyfriends sons cousins boyhood playmate

[zzwhale]

hillary could murder someone on tv and walk......
at the very least she is an accessory to murder,,,,4 of them
do you really think loretta lynch is going to prosecute hillary clinton...
then YOU are delusional
Thsi DOJ and FBI are nothing but an obama coverup hide the truth and dont prsecute LIbtards program...
Fast and Furious / one dead Border patrol and thousands of mexicans...NOTHNG
IRS ABUSING ITS AUTHORITY AND TRAMPLING CITIZEN RIGHTS.... NOTHING
SOLYNDRA .... FBI seized the documents... sayanora to that... NOTHING
BENGHAZI....... coverup, stonewall, lies, concealing a secret UNCONSTITUTIONAL arming of a wartime enemy..ISIS....NOTHING
e-mails/server...THERE IS ENOUGH EVIDENCE right now to start an indictment for multiple felonies.... just like they did to Petraues and Deutch back when... NOTHING
America is a thinly disguised dictatorship at this point with obama playing
hitler and the media playing PRAVDA....

[clearcarbon]

"Is it not time for a woman in the WH? "

If that was the only qualification the current resident could be surgically altered. As usual, the taxpayer would be forced to pay the bill.

[USS Alaska]

S###?

SHIT

[Starstruck]

Rumor has it that not all of tonights debate participants are particularly “hostile”....to Hillary

What a dastardly thing to say. It is not like someone donated to her campaign or the Clinton Foundation is it?