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Safe given to lawyer among irregularities seen in review of Hillary Clinton emails
The Washington Times ^ | August 16, 2015 | John Solomon

Posted on 08/16/2015 7:36:57 PM PDT by jazusamo

When State Department officials first discovered that Hillary Rodham Clinton’s personal email account contained classified information, they did not seize the thumb drive containing her digitally archived inbox but rather provided her attorney a special safe to secure the device, according to interviews and documents.

The move allowed Mrs. Clinton’s attorney to keep the device for several additional weeks while State officials reviewed paper copies of the emails for possible classified data. Officials were unconcerned that the thumb drive remained out of their possession because preservation orders from courts and Congress would ensure that her attorney would not destroy the evidence. The digital archive was turned over to the FBI for examination this month.

Throughout the review process, career State officials who normally handle the release of data under the Freedom of Information Act ran into disagreements with attorneys about which information in the emails was classified, The Washington Times has learned.

The disagreements are part of a complex, and at times tense, process in which career lawyers and career FOIA officials, along with a dozen intelligence review analysts from different agencies, are trying to identify and protect intelligence information contained in Mrs. Clinton’s personal email account. State and FOIA lawyers normally work together on such requests, but this case has heightened tensions given Mrs. Clinton’s status as the Democratic presidential front-runner.

The ongoing process has already flagged 60 of Mrs. Clinton’s personal emails as containing classified information at the “confidential” or “secret” level, although a debate is raging over additional emails that the intelligence community and career State officials believe contain more sensitive top-secret data, officials confirmed.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; arkansas; clinton; davidkendall; election2016; emails; hillary; hillaryclinton; hillarythumbdrives; hitlery; newyork; statedeptsafe; thumbdrive; wipewater
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1 posted on 08/16/2015 7:36:57 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

You can’t handle the truth!


2 posted on 08/16/2015 7:39:51 PM PDT by refermech
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks jazusamo.

3 posted on 08/16/2015 7:40:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: jazusamo

Withholding evidence evidently nuanced for Ms Clinton.


4 posted on 08/16/2015 7:40:25 PM PDT by Insigne123 (It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
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To: jazusamo

It would be difficult if not impossible for an ethical attorney to represent Hillary.


5 posted on 08/16/2015 7:41:45 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: jazusamo

Bubba was pi**ed about something on the golf course today.
6 posted on 08/16/2015 7:42:04 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: jazusamo

This is insane.


7 posted on 08/16/2015 7:42:29 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: jazusamo

Did the lawyer have access to the drive? Does he hold a TSI/SCI/SI etc class? Basically we allowed unvetted sensitive info to be unsecured for months. The government is our worst enemy in this fiasco. Clinton is a crook. DOJ/DOS all are negligent. Clinton was a servant of the people, not some royalty.


8 posted on 08/16/2015 7:44:13 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: jazusamo

Imagine four years of this kind of this crap.


9 posted on 08/16/2015 7:46:47 PM PDT by Hildy (God bless America, God bless SIlverton, Colorado and God protect us from the EPA.)
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To: JimSEA

Bump.


10 posted on 08/16/2015 7:46:51 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: BigEdLB

I think he’s explaining to Eldumb BO that his elbow is breaking down during his swing and that’s why everything is going left. Left like his chit policies.


11 posted on 08/16/2015 7:47:39 PM PDT by oust the louse (The LEFT has no principles, it only has goals !)
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To: Manly Warrior

Hillary absolutely is a crook along with all her cohorts.


12 posted on 08/16/2015 7:48:27 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: jazusamo

The question to ask her is, “Which computer did you use to read and send classified emails”. We know she didn’t use the secure one and she said she didn’t use her personal server. Time to pin her down.


13 posted on 08/16/2015 7:48:28 PM PDT by kdot
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To: kdot

HRC spent her 4 years as SOS and never came in contact with classified material./s


14 posted on 08/16/2015 7:52:11 PM PDT by umgud
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To: Manly Warrior
Exactly. Even if he did hold a TS/SCI clearance, he doesn't have a need to know. Leaving him with access is insane.

A special safe! Did they just build a new mobile SCIF device without me finding out about it?

15 posted on 08/16/2015 7:54:21 PM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: jazusamo

Exactly the same way any one of us would be treated in the same situation, right?


16 posted on 08/16/2015 7:57:16 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Manly Warrior

Its obvious that a spillage has occurred. And the proper responses were not followed. Its blatant disregard for well established and documented security policy.

And its not a safe. Its a security container.

Who is the security officer in charge of those holding the clearances? He should be have his clearance revoked, be immediately fired and prosecuted.


17 posted on 08/16/2015 7:57:19 PM PDT by FreeInWV
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To: Manly Warrior

That’s my question too. If that’s not a TS/SCI cleared lawyer, giving him the thumb drive was yet another massive, felonious security breach. And she has no even-nominal excuse this time because she gave it to him AFTER it was publicly known there was classified data in it!


18 posted on 08/16/2015 7:58:06 PM PDT by Nep Nep
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To: BigEdLB

Maybe he'll flip out?

Somebody get that boy a his & her pair of Walther PPS's.

19 posted on 08/16/2015 8:07:45 PM PDT by BlueDragon (9 is greater than 4 so its all good. custom hellokitty grips? --strictly an aftermarket item)
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20 posted on 08/16/2015 8:08:39 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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