Posted on 08/26/2015 6:28:29 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
None of which they had the authority to de-classify
I’ve never had a very high regard for the State Department, mostly due to its tendency - regardless of who is president - to treat every issue that comes up as merely an imperative to spew diplomatic platitudes and do little else. It never occurred to me that the State Department was bereft with complete incompetence at every turn, but upon further reflection it explains a lot.
And that certainly appears to be the case, as evidence by the clumsy joint effort of the John Kerry-led State Department and the Hillary for President campaign to cover up Hillary’s obvious use of her private e-mail server to illegally trade in classified material. The latest stumble sees State publicly releasing information that was and still is classified, and that State had no authority to de-classify and release because, according to Obama’s own rules via executive order, nothing can be de-classified by anyone except the agency that classified it in the first place.
Oh well! The Chinese and the Russians probably saw it anyway via hacks on Hillary’s slipshod toilet cupboard server, so what difference does it make that now everyone knows about this?
Do you know if the National Archives ever got those documents back?
Last I heard was that Sandy Berger said he passed by some trash pile and for some reason (which he tried to imply was perfectly reasonable) put them in a thrown away card file cabinet or file drawer or something like that which was near a dumpster or something. It was all a perfectly concocted outlandish fabrication, but apparently he got away with only a three year suspension of his clearance or something like that.
[Disclaimer: I’m an old fart and I’m only going on recollection and readings that have probably long since disappeared in the internet.]
“It never occurred to me that the State Department was It never occurred to me that the State Department was bereft with complete incompetence at every turn...”
That was the first thing that occurred to me. Then I decided the more likely issue is the department is filled with treasonous bastards (who are also incompetent).
Second guy was homosexual and/or liberal extremist anti-Christian, right?
Liberal. Old neighbor from Santa Cruz, Kalifornia.
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