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Clinton Emails So Sensitive, Senior Lawmakers Had to Up Their Security Clearances to View Them
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| 01/22/2016
| Debra Heine
Posted on 01/22/2016 8:36:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Some of newly revealed emails on Hillary Clinton's private, unsecured server are so sensitive that senior lawmakers on the oversight committees did not have high enough security clearances to read them, according to sources on Capitol Hill. Fox News reports today that lawmakers had to fulfill additional security requirements in order to read material in her emails described by Mrs. Clinton as "innocuous."
The emails in question, as Fox News first reported earlier this week, contained intelligence classified at a level beyond "top secret." Because of this designation, not all the lawmakers on key committees reviewing the case have high enough clearances.
A source with knowledge of the intelligence review told Fox News that senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, despite having high-level clearances, are among those not authorized to read the intelligence from so-called "special access programs" without taking additional security steps -- like signing new non-disclosure agreements.
These programs are highly restricted to protect intelligence community sources and methods.
Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III identified "several dozen" additional classified emails this month -- including classified intelligence from "special access programs" (SAP).
In an interview with NPR yesterday, Mrs. Clinton insisted that the latest IG finding doesn't change anything and suggested that the Obama-appointed official was working with the Republicans. "This seems to me to be, you know, another effort to inject this into the campaign, it's another leak," she said. "I'm just going to leave it up to the professionals at the Justice Department because nothing that this says changes the fact that I never sent or received material marked classified."
Clinton's defenders say the emails contain relatively "innocuous" conversations by State Department officials about the CIA drone program.
The description of the emails as relatively innocuous came from officials, including a senior U.S. intelligence official, who believe Inspector General McCullough has been unfair to Clinton in his handling of the issue. They say McCullough and Congressional Republicans have elevated a mundane dispute about classification into a scandal.
However, a former Justice Department official told Fox News that "State Department IT employees and others" warned Clinton that she should be using a government account and yet she ignored them.
"If you have a situation where someone was knowingly violating the law and that they knew that what they were doing was prohibited by federal law because other people were saying, you're violating the law, knock it off, and they disregarded that advice and they went ahead, that's a very difficult case to defend," Thomas Dupree said.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: classifiedemails; clearance; clinton; email; hillary; hillarycriminalprobe; sap; topsecret
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To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/22/2016 8:38:02 AM PST
by
Bubba_Leroy
(The Obamanation Continues)
To: SeekAndFind
Sadly, I still don’t think anything will come of this.
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posted on
01/22/2016 8:38:41 AM PST
by
MeganC
(The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
To: Bubba_Leroy
The FBI is afraid to charge her.
Wait till other criminals figure out how to make the FBI afraid...
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posted on
01/22/2016 8:39:31 AM PST
by
kiryandil
("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
To: SeekAndFind
nothing that this says changes the fact that I never sent or received material marked classified." Of course not, she ordered her staff to remove those markings. That doesn't absolve her to protect that information which she clearly failed to do, deliberately.
To: SeekAndFind
When I had a clearance and something slipped out into the white world, the government always said, “I can neither confirm nor deny that.” Acknowledging that this is real data tells the many countries that have copies that they really have something important.
To: ASA Vet
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posted on
01/22/2016 8:42:14 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Obama is living proof off the disaster of not sticking to the Wisdom of our Founding Fathers!!)
To: SeekAndFind
What difference, at this point, does it make?
The Russians, Chinese, and Iranians already have them.
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posted on
01/22/2016 8:42:34 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Falcon 105)
To: SeekAndFind
...but...but...but didn’t she say she turned them all over and then didn’t she say that she had her server or whatever wiped?
You certainly don’t mean she’s lying again..../s
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posted on
01/22/2016 8:43:20 AM PST
by
HarleyLady27
( 'THE FORCE AWAKENS'!!! TRUMP; TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP !!! 100%)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/22/2016 8:43:40 AM PST
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
To: centurion316
Of course not, she ordered her staff to remove those markings. And that by itself is a crime, even if they refused to do it.
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posted on
01/22/2016 8:44:14 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Falcon 105)
To: SeekAndFind
Anyone know if the effing elites at National Review have condemned Mrs Clinton for her illegal acts?
Have they put out a whole edition dedicated to Hillary's high handed illegal activity? Or does NR feel ‘elites’ have privileges the rest of us don't have?
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posted on
01/22/2016 8:44:19 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(It's more important to have a gun in your hand than a cop on the phone- Florida Sheriff Grady Judd)
To: Bubba_Leroy
Poor Charlotte, think of her grandparents:
Webb - convicted felon
Hillary - soon to be convicted felon
Ed - convicted felon
And step-grandad BJ - impeached
To: SeekAndFind
Anybody else would already be in jail
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posted on
01/22/2016 8:48:10 AM PST
by
tennmountainman
("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittancez)
To: SeekAndFind
So why is she not in jail?
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posted on
01/22/2016 8:48:27 AM PST
by
aquila48
To: ChildOfThe60s
What REALLY bothers me about this, is this BITCH put people’s live in danger, this stuff has our moles names, our special forces activities, drone strike info this was our SEC OF STATE for Gods sake!!!! Something is VERY seriously wrong with this woman, if she is NOT arrested there should be a HUGE public uprising!!!
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posted on
01/22/2016 8:48:44 AM PST
by
Kit cat
(OBummer must go)
To: SeekAndFind
Anybody else would already be in jail
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posted on
01/22/2016 8:48:59 AM PST
by
tennmountainman
("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittancez)
To: SeekAndFind; All
Can anyone help me connect the dots here? What I'm reading doesn't make any sense.
These supersecret SAP emails were sent TO Clinton. They could only originate from the few individuals who had that clearance. However, they could only be sent to Hillary's classified/secret email account. To do anything else is a crime.
But Hillary didn't have/use a secure State dept email acc't..so where did they go..and who received them, and then sent them on to Hillary?
As I understand it, thee are only TWO ways to move a document from a classified email system to an unclassified one:
1. Like what Snowden did..download it to a flashdrive, then upload it to the unsecured computer
2.Physically copy....either retype, or print out and then scan the material into the unclassified system.
All of which means that there are a lot more people who have there hands all over this.
Unless I'm missing something..
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posted on
01/22/2016 8:49:27 AM PST
by
ken5050
(Trump: "I'm no conservative, but I sure can play one on TV")
To: Kit cat
If this is true our government CAN NOT take ANY chances, all moles, and special forces teams would have to be removed from their missions immediately!!! What a BITCH !!!!!
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posted on
01/22/2016 8:51:36 AM PST
by
Kit cat
(OBummer must go)
To: SeekAndFind
Wonder if they gave Putin a clearance since they were provided to him gratis by Hillary.
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posted on
01/22/2016 8:52:09 AM PST
by
The_Media_never_lie
(The Bush family needs to just go away. The Clinton family needs just to go to prison.)
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