Posted on 08/12/2015 2:35:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The recent nonpartisan findings of the inspectors general of the State Department and the intelligence community — that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s personal email server potentially contains “hundreds” of pieces of classified information — have significant national-security and counterintelligence implications.
As former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and former chief counsel for the Senate Intelligence Committee, we share these concerns.
Understandably, those who have never dealt with classified material — the general public — can be misled by “political spin.”
It’s important to put the questions about Clinton’s personal storage of government emails into the same context in which they are viewed by national-security professionals.
Clinton’s spokesperson vehemently claimed that press reports about her emails were “false.”
However, the most troubling allegation — that the emails on Clinton’s personal server were found to contain classified information — was not specifically refuted.
Probably because it’s not “false.”
Clinton tried to wiggle out of this problem by suggesting that the matter was overblown because the documents were not classified at the time she had custody and “various parts of the government” are “disagree[ing]” about whether the material should be classified. Not so.
In a random sampling of 40 emails, two inspectors general found that four individual emails, or 10 percent of the sample, contained classified information.
According to Office of Inspector General spokesperson Andrea Williams, those emails were “classified when they were sent and are classified now.” Clinton’s spokesperson argued that Clinton couldn’t have been aware that the material was classified because it wasn’t specifically marked.
But that statement ignores how the process works. The reason government officials with security clearances are required to keep their correspondence on the appropriate government server is so the material can be vetted and classified prior to hitting “send” to an uncleared recipient.
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OK. Let’s get this straight. Hillary used her homebrew server exclusively, and did not use the State Department e-mail at all. That means that all her electronic communication went through her personal server. So I am supposed to believe that during her entire time as SoS, she never sent or received any classified material. That is the biggest crock I have ever heard.
The reason this Kabuki Theater is happening, is that every single person in the District of Criminals has enough material on everybody else to put them in prison. If anyone starts to let the cats out of the bag, the whole city will engage in mutual assured destruction. The fecal matter won’t just hit the fan, it will hit an industrial wind tunnel.
This is why all the “elites” are so afraid of Trump. He doesn’t reside in their cozy little whorehouse, is willing to show how these people are bought and sold and doesn’t need their little money machine. He’s perfectly willing to open the back and sit back, laughing, while the establishment types try to herd all the cats.
She may experience a little trouble but ultimately she will get away with it because she is a premiere member of the Progressive Liberal Democrat/Rino Communist Uni-Party.
She will not be nominated for President.
If Obama wishes, she might go to prison.
True. She will get away with it because her national press corpse DEMANDS she get away with it.
They do NOT care what she does, as long as she supports abortion.
Surely Caliph Baraq can find a POTUS pardon for her if there is a 9 digit $$$ transfer from the Clinton Global Initiative to the Baraq H. Obama Foundation.
“Surely Caliph Baraq can find a POTUS pardon for her if there is a 9 digit $$$ transfer from the Clinton Global Initiative to the Baraq H. Obama Foundation.
I would not bet on this. No love lost there, and Obama will have many years ahead to collect his own money.
I wonder who picked the very small sample of 40 random emails that were inspected?
It certainly wasn’t queen Hillary....:^)
It is sexist and a war on men to charge and convict Petraeus for far less, but not even charge Hillary.
Spot on!
It’s odd to me that every statement that Hilary makes ends with, “That’s the ticket!”
Watching Hillary enter the federal prison system would be extremely satisfying.
Why should we presumably accept that the server she surrendered is not a duplicate or is not expertly cleansed of any relevant material?
She can not protect herself behind things not being stamped as Top Secret because the review of materials of current chat is done at a different time and it is assumed all are using a protected government server.
She is full of shit basically.
I have no recollection.
So. . .everyone inside the Beltway in Mutual Assured Destruction. . .
OK, but what’s the downside ??? (evil grin)
> The reason this Kabuki Theater is happening, is that every single person in the District of Criminals has enough material on everybody else to put them in prison.
Bingo! And Trump can’t be bought off for a lousy couple of $million like the Clintons.
ONLY Obama can save her from prison.
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