Posted on 09/04/2016 11:20:27 AM PDT by mdittmar
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine on Sunday defended Hillary Clinton against criticism over her handling of classified information as secretary of state, saying she was unaware of the sensitivity of some information she exchanged over email because it had been "improperly labeled."
In July, the Federal Bureau of Investigation rebuked Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, for her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, saying she was "extremely careless" in her handling of classified information.
According to records released by the FBI on Friday, Clinton told the bureau's investigators in a July interview that she could not recall getting any briefings on how to handle classified information or comply with laws governing the preservation of federal records.
Kaine, a U.S. senator from Virginia who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees, told ABC's program "This Week," that the volume of information received by government officials often makes it difficult to know what information has been declared classified.
"There were emails that contained classified information that had been improperly marked. So when she received the email, the material that was classified - which is supposed to be flagged and identified as classified - in many instances was improperly labeled," he said.
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The stupid lying incompetent witch LIVED in the White House. She was a United States Senator... She's been involved with the government since she was in College.
This is what Hitler and Gobbles referred to as THE BIG LIE.
This is too stupid for Democrats to believe... too stupid for liberal female 'journalists' with IQs of 103 to believe... too stupid for anyone to believe.
And the FBI agent who questioned the witch? If he didn't fall to the ground unable to stop laughing at this bullsh*t lie, then he should be fired and everyone involved in his training should be fired.
Exactly. She needed a former governor to check off the executive experience factor. But it had to be one who was already being paid by the Muslim Brotherhood. That narrowed the choices.
Well, it is true.
This Crooked, Lying, Evil creature was improperly labeled as Secretary of State.
Liberals REALLY ARE that stupid. The Party has no other gods before it.
I copied a list of nonsense myths that the Telegraph wrote about Kim Jong Il, and plugged in Hillary's name. It receives no questions from the Left.
* Even before her birth, the future leader of the United States was triggering miracles. Official biographers say her birth in a log cabin was foretold by a swallow and heralded by a double rainbow. When she was born, a new star appeared in the night sky. She predicted who would be the first to climb Mount Everest, and named herself after him.
* The first time she picked up a golf club, in 1994, Hillary reportedly shot a 38-under par round on Washington’s toughest golf course, including 11 holes-in-one. She then decided to retire from the sport forever.
* Hillary has the ability to alter the weather simply through the power of thought.
* The fledgling leader was a genius as an infant, with official DNC biographies stating that she had learned to walk at just 3 weeks and was talking at 8 weeks.
* As a junior high school pupil in Park Ridge, she corrected and chastised her teachers for their incorrect interpretations of history.
* HRC wrote six Broadway musicals in two years, "all of which are better than any in the history of music," according to her official biography.
* She designed the Towers of the WTC, the Washington Monument, and the Capitol Dome.
* Hillary’s official biography also claims that she wrote 1,500 books during her time at Wellesley University, from where she graduated in 1970.
* According to MSNBC, Hilary is an expert on all aspects of the film industry and "improved the scripts and guided the production" of the movies "Titanic, Citizen Kane, Star Wars and Jaws." Her favorite movies are reportedly "Friday the 13th," "I Spit On Your Grave" and anything starring Elizabeth Taylor.
* When HRC landed in Bosnia, all the sniper bullets became as water.
* Hillary reportedly employs a servant to inspect every grain of rice that is served to her. Any with the most minor of flaws is discarded.
Bobbleheads have no problem with this.
Creepy Uncle Tim can dissemble with the best of ‘em.
Then it "wasn't classified at that time"...
Then her excuse was she wasn't briefed properly...
Now they're trying the "it wasn't marked" properly excuse.
It's all BS (obviously). She very intentionally went to a lot of trouble and expense to set up and maintain her own non-secure server. Outside government traceability, records keeping, and FOIA requests. Intentionally. There is/was no convenience factor there. Convenience is having someone else (eg. the State Dept IT folks) handle your IT. Doing your own IT, unless you're a computer geek (aka IT person), is frustrating and difficult, and even more difficult to get right.
Even if you buy her BS excuses, all they do is prove by her own admission, that she is unfit for office. Marked or not, the information in those communications was no-doubt obviously sensitive and worthy of classification and protection as such. Sure, some might have been borderline, or required special knowledge to determine classified or not. But by and large, reasonable, even only modestly intelligent people with little or no training, can look at information and say "wait a second...this looks sensitive, shouldn't we be protecting it?" It's called "original classification authority" and the Sec. State has it, the President obviously has it.
However, by her own admission Hillary Clinton lacks this level of intelligence and judgement. She is admittedly, by her own words, negligent and forgetful. She cannot be trusted with classified information ever again. Period, end of story.
Someone should remind Kaine that Her Worship instructed her servants to STRIP CLASSIFICATION MARKINGS from documents prior to emailing them.
Do you expect me to believe that? It’s the CONTENTS that matter. The conclusion is that hillary is unable to assess the importance of a communication after reading it. She is so weak and frail, and stupid, that she needs it to be labeled in a certain way.
And you expect me to think that this frail old fool can be president?
Well stated. The MSM is just looking to prop up the inexcusable . Just because a liar tells you its the truth, doesn’t make it not a lie...
This would not be a problem if she followed the freaking rules everyone else does and use the appropriate secure network for the material. She did not.
She is a known security hazard and should not be anywhere near secure material.
Every other SS since Thomas Jefferson has been able to figure it out but "the smartest woman in the world" can't.
I think my yearly security training has been terrible. I had no idea that that it’s OK to send classified information on an unclassified system if it’s labelled incorrectly.
No, no, no.
(C) on a classified email means “Clinton Coverup”
(S) means “Sell”
(TS) Means “Tis Sold”
(SBI) means “Special Buy-In” ....
Sorry Timmy. We don’t believe the state controlled national “media”, what makes you think we’ll be her pool boy?
Anyone responsible who has handled TS-SCI would recognize that material instantly. None of us could possibly confuse it with unclassified. Even someone relatively untrained should figure it out after a very small number of memos. Either Hillary is shockingly stupid, a liar, or a traitor. I don’t know of any other logical possibilities.
It’s Colin Powel, it’s the mail room, it’s Mahatma Gandhi, it’s anybody but Hillary.
Well she never used the alternative secure government system. So any classified info the SOS handled over the years was by definition mis-handled. The only legitimate excuse would be if she was never SOS.
Sounds like a game of "Washington CLUE" ...
Colin Powell...
In the mail room...
with a lead pipe ...
What a joke this guy is. No wonder she chose him..Timmy the lapdog!
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