Posted on 01/09/2016 9:04:11 AM PST by Signalman
Over the past few days, there have been a number of articles in the press concerning Hillary ordering an aide to remove classified markings or "headers", i.e. "SECRET", "TOP-SECRET" from emails before sending them to her and most of them have said that this act (the removal of the markings) alone is a criminal violation.
I would love this to be the case but I've researched a number of the federal statutes dealing with this topic such as 18 USC 793 and I haven't yet found anything that SPECIFICALLY states that removing markings, or headers, from a document containing classified information is a crime under US Law.
I've also checked the CFRs (Code of Federal Regulations) and haven't found a federal regulation that deals with this, specifically.
If any FReeper who is a current or former Assistant US Attorney, or anyone else, can locate this information, please let me know.
Thank you
“Folks with security clearences are trained to know what is classified or not.”
Not so. When classified docs are moved between entities, it is the marking that indicates to the receiver, the contents are classified at that level. Simply having a clearance is no guarantee the viewer should know a page with information on it should be a specific classification, unless it is marked as such.
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