Posted on 02/07/2016 6:11:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Hillary Clinton email issue is developing into a real whodunit, complete with Clintonesque legal semantics. "I never sent or received any material marked classified," she said with respect to the discovery of classified information on her private, unclassified email server. That surface denial nearly rivals Bill Clinton's classic: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
But this is no laughing matter.
There is nothing trivial about a secretary of state having top-secret information on an unsecured computer in her home. That appears to have been the case, based on the State Department's announcement last week that 22 emails, across seven email chains, containing top-secret information were on Hillary Clinton's private email server.
At issue is whether the information in the emails was classified when it was sent to her unsecured server. It was, after all, the State Department, upon review of the content by intelligence agencies, that upgraded the emails to top-secret and ordered them withheld from the public.
Now, it may well be that some of Clinton's political opponents are out to derail her presidential campaign and are using the email controversy to do so. Or it could be the case, as Clinton's supporters claim, that intergovernmental infighting over what is and isn't classified is driving this investigation.
The important nonpolitical question: Did the nation's top diplomat or her State Department staff improperly handle extremely sensitive, top-secret information and do so in a manner in which the information could be compromised?
State Department rules are quite clear.
Top-secret information must not be placed on any unclassified systems. It must be accounted for and controlled. And no copy of a top-secret document can be made without the permission of the office or agency in which it originated.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Hillary, like the Hindenburg. “Oh, the humanity”
A compost opinion writer might be starting to get it... But I'm not holding my breath.
If her name wasn’t Clinton she’s be wearing orange and helping the Illinois governors make license plates by now.
Dear Washington Post,
That light bulb over your head is SLOWLY beginning to come on. Let me help you just a little bit. HAve your reporters ask themselves, then ask Hillary Clinton, these questions:
1. Why did Hillary Clinton never get a @State.gov email address? She gave no one in the United States government a legal email address to use for government business.
2. Who gave Hillary Clinton “permission” to use a private email server for government business? She has stated that publicly. Who? When? Where is the paperwork? Who signed it?
3. Where is the “permission slip” for numerous aides to conduct official government business on a private email server?
Do you see, Washington Post, that this is the TIP of the huge iceberg of her malfeasance as SecState? Are you beginning to comprehend?
This is more orchestrated than the WP getting it. I think the plan all along was to let Hillary go out there and flounder. Once in a weakened state, there won’t be the same pushback from Hillary supporters when the FBI and Justice take her down. Biden will swoop in to save the day and get the nomination.
The Biden non-candidacy announcement was planned theater. Revenge is a dish best served cold, and Obama may be playing this far better than I expected.
“At issue is whether the information in the emails was classified when it was sent to her unsecured server. It was, after all, the State Department, upon review of the content by intelligence agencies, that upgraded the emails to top-secret and ordered them withheld from the public.”
For the millionth time... Under the law this distinction — when and item was classified — does not exist.
Even if not headed to a Club Fed, she is toast and Dems are scared. Read the reply posts.
If Hillary were doing better in the primaries, the WP would be crowing that she has risen above the VRWC attacks and people don't care about the email scandal. They'd be singing her praises.
But she's faltering badly, so they're ready to throw her under the bus. The goal of the WP is to have a Democrat elected. They don't think Hillary can close the deal and they think a socialist at the top of the ticket would be a disaster.
These liberals actually think, because of how Hitlery says what she does, that someone at the State Department is the one who, regardless of what email system you send from (Yahoo!, Gmail, etc), that magically some staffer gets them before they go out and classifies them appropriately.
The idiocy is amazing.
homo doesn't have any plays. He just does whatever valjar's hand up his backside makes him do. I don't know who her puppet master in turn is, but it sure doesn't appear to be anything American.
Obama is an idiot when it comes to governing the nation but he is a master politician. He plays that game at a different level from the rest of the scoundrels.
They are going to have to make up their minds soon. Filings to get on state ballots are already passing by, I think.
Of course, they may find a way around this ...
WaPo has been trolling my posts...
I agree. as a Democrat spokesmedia anything from the WashPost should be read carefully for the real message. I read that as a not so subtle message to Hillary and her minions.
The point of this article is to get these Clinton talking points into print. Soon, we can expect to read that "the Washington Post has noted the motivation of political opponents and the interagency squabbling behind these ambiguous charges."
Bryan 24 has here shown his use of human logic, reason, common sense. What he says here, needs to be repeated, shouted, printed, and archived for many to remember. Any trolls of the Main Stream need to get ahold of Bryan 24 and ask again, WHAT AGAIN ARE THE QUESTIONS WE NEED TO BE ASKING THE FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE. We do need some journalist sharp in wit, keen and accurate marksmen.
“If Hillary were doing better in the primaries, the WP would be crowing that she has risen above the VRWC attacks and people don’t care about the email scandal. They’d be singing her praises.”
nailed it!
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