Posted on 11/03/2016 6:58:16 AM PDT by SJackson
An unnamed “senior aide” to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left classified information unsecured and unattended in a hotel room during a 2010 trip to China, one of several overseas lapses by Clinton’s inner circle, Fox News has learned.
Confirmation of the alarming violation comes as Clinton herself is under a renewed FBI probe for mishandling sensitive information on a private server and her longtime senior aide, Huma Abedin, also faces scrutiny as part of the investigation. It was not known which of Clinton’s aides left the information exposed.
“In May 2010, Secretary Clinton was on official travel in Beijing, China, accompanied by senior staff. Upon Secretary Clinton’s departure, a routine security sweep by Diplomatic Security agents identified classified documents in a staff member’s suite,” State Department spokesman John Kirby told Fox News in a statement, issued several weeks after a Freedom of Information Act request was filed with the agency.
Diplomatic Security, which protects the Secretary of State in the U.S. and abroad, as well as high-ranking foreign dignitaries and officials visiting the United States, wrote up the incident on a Form 117, while the Marine Security Guards filed a separate formal report, the source said.
The information came to light when the FBI was investigating whether Clinton or her staff violated the US Espionage Act by mishandling classified and top secret information.
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Might as well make it easy for our friends to steal info.
She’s surrounded herself with such a crowd of incompetent, irresponsible, immature bush-league morons!
That’s because - SHE selected/appointed/hired them. It’s a DIRECT reflection of who SHE is!!
Not FIT for the WH.... NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That had to be on purpose.
Otherwise it is incompetence on a galactic scale.
Exactly! SHE is unfit!
What makes you think they are incompetent? Perhaps they did exactly as they were supposed to do.
Plain Talk About Hillary Clinton’s National Security Breaches
WEB Commentary Editor
Author: Bob Webster
Date: November 1, 2016
Despite “110 emails in 52 chains” with classified information found by the FBI, Hillary Clinton has the audacity to claim there exists “no evidence of wrongdoing”!
The recent revelation of 650,000 email messages discovered on Huma Abedin’s computer are not really needed to prosecute and convict Hillary Rodham Clinton on charges of espionage against the United States, a crime punishable by imprisonment in a federal penitentiary. If charged and convicted on each count documented by Director James Comey in July, Clinton could spend the rest of her life in prison. That seems a fitting reward for Clinton’s multiple incidents of callous disregard for the national security of the United States.
As a retired career employee of the Department of Defense, I am personally well acquainted with the enormous importance placed on protection of classified information.
WEBCommentary Editor
Every federal employee with a security clearance is required to attend annual security training. Such regular training ensures employees are well aware of the importance of protecting classified information. Employees with clearance to handle classified information are made fully aware of the penalties for failure to safeguard such information. Depending on the severity of the breach, penalties may include dismissal and imprisonment for failure to uphold their responsibility to safeguard classified material. Breaches of this responsibility are particularly egregious when the exposure created could result in material falling into the hands of foreign intelligence-gathering operations, regardless of whether material actually falls into unauthorized hands.
Some background on Classified material and US Code defining acts that constitute “espionage” against the Untied States (for a complete description of classification levels, read Classification Levels):
TOP SECRET - The Top Secret classification level “shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.”
SECRET - The Secret classification level “shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage to the national security.”
CONFIDENTIAL - The Confidential classification level “shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause damage to the national security.”
[Note: Emphasis added by author]
Recall FBI Director James Comey’s July 5, 2016 statement itemizing 110 emails in 52 chains that criminally exposed every level of classified national security information to unauthorized access in clear violation of provisions of U.S. Code, Title 18:
“From the group of 30,000 emails returned [by Hillary Clinton] to the State Department in 2014, 110 emails in 52 email chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent. Thirty-six of those chains contained Secret information at the time, and eight [chains] contained Confidential information at the time.”
Compare the Department of Justice’s (DoJ) failure to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her egregious and deliberate exposure of the most highly sensitive national security information over a period of years to the zealous prosecution of U. S. Navy sailor Kristian Saucier of Arlington, Vermont for a single inadvertant violation that was confined to the contents of his camera.
Saucier was sentenced to one year in jail for taking pictures inside a 40-year-old nuclear submarine in an area containing classified equipment, a fact unknown to Saucier at the time and which action was not exposed to any other individual. Saucier was sentenced to one year in jail, six months of home confinement, and five years of probation. His mother, a federal employee, lost her job because of his actions.
On the other hand, the DoJ declined to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her repeated egregious acts of espionage against the United States, her destruction of official records, and her many false statements to the FBI and the American people.
Read: http://www.webcommentary.com/php/PrintArticle.php?id=websterb&date=161101
Wouldn’t be surprised if Hillary handed it over to the Chinese herself and then blamed an aide for leaving it. There was probably a big payment to Bill for a speech at Chinese company about that time.
Maybe it was a room service tip.
Regarding the Clinton Crime Family, as Limbaugh once said:
Criminal, or Stupid?
Big time Right!!
Obama is her boss. He promised fundamental transformation. I do believe that he opened up all the firewalls to our national security secrets to allow the world to gain access to our intelligence.
What gets me is that our “friends” in talk radio won’t even go there.
How else does one explain the outright idiocy of all this?
Guess they all think they won’t be affected by the fall out of all this.
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