Posted on 01/22/2016 3:45:40 PM PST by Kaslin
In movies, documents have a large, red stamp at the top: Classified. The stamped documents - which have been replaced by e-mails, phones, or thumb drives - have to be protected from the bad guys at all costs. Too bad Hillary Clinton doesn't understand what every American moviegoer over age five knows instinctively.
The Intelligence Community's inspector general Charles McCullough III recently reported that at "least several dozen of the emails sent and received by Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state contained classified material, including intelligence material classified at the highest levels."
The e-mails varied in their levels of classification: "classified," "secret," "top secret/SAP" (or "special access programâ€) which includes the highest and most protected national security information.
This is big news.
Clinton has always maintained that none of the emails she sent or received were marked classified. But, as David French wrote, "every single federal employee who handles classified information — from the secretary of state to administrative assistants and Army sergeants — is required to protect both 'marked and unmarked' classified information." Classified information made its way into these "unmarked emails" which could’ve been intercepted by foreign intelligence agencies since she sent them from her private, unsecured server on a private, unsecured smartphone.
Even though Sen. Bernie Sanders said that Americans were "sick and tired" of hearing about her "damn emails," this issue will not go away.
Not for lack of trying.
Charles Cooke described her comical dishonesty on display at her press conference. He wrote,
"As is now clear, Hillary possesses almost none of Bill's remarkable personal virtues. She's not warm or spontaneous or alluring or quick. She has no discernible political instincts. She doesn't even seem to enjoy the human contact on which successful public servants thrive. But boy can she fib with the best of them. From start to precipitous finish, her performance was pure Clintonian evasion. 'What I did,' she argued carefully — after trying a quick ‘nothing to do with me' for good measure — 'was legally permitted, number one, first and foremost, okay?' 'Number two,' she offered, 'they've already concluded more than 1,200 of the e-mails I gave them have nothing to do with the work, and I said make them public.' 'I know,' she concluded emphatically, that 'there's a certain level of, you know, sort of anxiety or interest in this, but the facts are the facts.'"
Move along. There's nothing to see here.
But then, the Washington Beacon published a non-disclosure agreement that Hillary Clinton signed back in 2009 the day after she took the position of Secretary of State which shows she knew "negligent handling" of classified data could cause her to face criminal penalties. The document which she signed read:
"I have been advised that the unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized retention, or negligent handling of SCI by me could cause irreparable injury to the United States or be used to advantage by a foreign nation. I have been advised that any unauthorized disclosure of SCI by me may constitute violations of United States criminal laws… nothing in the agreement constitutes a waiver by the United States of the right to prosecute me for any statutory violation."
In other words, this is concrete proof that she knew what her actions were illegal. But, we didn't need proof.
If the Secretary of State didn't know what the basic law was regarding national security, it doesn't bid well for her competency as President. Not that she'll necessarily make it to the Oval Office. This Democratic front-runner is facing an ever expanding FBI investigation, which will invariably heat up with these new revelations. She could even be indicted before any votes are cast.
In the movies, the secret documents are stolen, but the good guys eventually show up before too much damage is done. But in real life, the "good guys" sometimes act like "bad guys."
Let's hope that truth and justice will be re-established before the lights go down on this nation.
TRUE! There is no such classification marking as "Classified" There are only, "Unclassified" "Secret" or "Top Secret" plus some with a much higher level but no such name as just "Classified" That is just another Clinton lawyers style dodge of the facts. She should be shot JMHO!
Uh NO! She’s above the law don’t ya know?
No jury in DC would ever convict her.
That’s why it’s important to not even indict her until closer to the election in November. (providing she survives the primaries.... or her blood clots... or her chronic alcoholism)
Would be something else to see Hillary being led to a van in handcuffs. LOL Not a good day for the RAT party! Perhaps she’ll strike a plea deal and SING LIKE A CANARY ABOUT HER BOSS.
They don’t want to indict her now.. they would rather wait a few months.
If they indict now, she has no ‘delegates to release’ and Bernie scoops them up and wins.
If they wait after a large number of delegates have ‘declared’ for Hillary and then indict her, then those delegates are ‘freed up’, Bernie can not get them and then the party can select anyone they want (Biden, Warren, etc.)
Note that the newly selected people would not need to be enrolled anywhere so they are not bound by missing any deadlines to be enrolled as candidates.
Heck, it could even be Michelle Obama.
He’s impeached and disbarred,she’s a felon and traitor and americas love both of them....What a frigen mess
same crap as the meaning of is,is.
These 2 pukes parse words to no end and think were a bunch of idiots
Hillary is getting old and she is sick and she doesn’t have near the power the Clintons used to have.
Her lifetime of arrogance and corruption and nastiness have left her with no friends and lots of enemies.
She is a toothless and clawless old cat who is growling and arching her back to try and scare people.
You just grab her by the nape of her neck and throw her out the door.
People engaged in the government at political levels are criminals, organized into several organized crime families commonly known at political parties. They cannot be trusted, they lie as a foundation of their behavior, and they engage in criminal conspiracy every day. They believe that by dispensing tax dollars in the right direction and for the right recipients they can avoid any criminal or political accounting for what they do. Until voters show that they are wrong, they will continue to behave in a reprehensible manner.
haha... that’s because there is no US security classification named “classified”.
It depends on what the meaning of “is” is, right?
Worse than we knew?
Anybody knowledgeable in IT knew that she was hacked as soon as they heard that she had her private email server. A high value target like the United States Secretary of State is under constant foreign surveillance.
And then to imagine that she was OCD enough to keep her private and government lives separate on that server is just too much to imagine.
My point.....Plus none of the MSM shillls follows up on that when she makes that statement.
Her statement talks about emails marked classified. They are never marked “classified”. They have other terms for secret information. Welcome to the world of the Clintons.
Obama will pardon her.
Faptious Day!
I’ve always thought the issue of indictment was more political than criminal. We know she’s guilty, the question is - will Obama’s DOJ actually charge her or stall? It’s a discretionary call and Democrat insiders get to make it.
I believe she will be indicted if what has been reported is true. Too many FBI agents are involved in this.
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