Posted on 08/13/2015 12:54:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As the Hillary email scandal deepens, Team Hillary has to figure out how to deal with it. Richard Cohen in the Washington Post has already deployed the usual Clinton partisan "LOL this is silly and a waste of time" defense.
But there are serious legal issues that aren't going away. So it may be time to roll out the Benghazi solution. Fake fire a bunch of lower ranked people. Here's a preview of Option 2.
"Hillary only used her personal account for unclassified email. No information in her emails was marked classified at the time she sent or received them," campaign Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri said in a statement to supporters Wednesday.
But a State Department official told Fox News that the intelligence community inspector general, who raised the most recent concerns about Clinton's emails, made clear that at least one of those messages contained information that only could have come from the intelligence community.
"If so, they would have had to come in with all the appropriate classification markings," the official said.
The official questioned whether someone, then, tampered with that message. "[S]omewhere between the point they came into the building and the time they reached HRC's server, someone would have had to strip the classification markings from that information before it was transmitted to HRC's personal email."
The official said doing so would "constitute a felony, in and of itself. I can't imagine that a rank-and-file career DOS employee would have done this, so it was most likely done by someone in her inner circle."
The messages apparently contained satellite imagery and signals intelligence, information that diplomats cannot unilaterally obtain.
Yet, like the Clinton campaign, the State Department public affairs team also maintains that the emails were "not marked classified" when Clinton received them.
"None of them were classified at the time," department spokesman Mark Toner said.
The usual Clinton strategy comes in three parts.
1. We didn't do anything wrong
2. We didn't know we were doing anything wrong
3. You can't prove we knew we were doing anything wrong
You can see elements of all three here. The Clintons understand the lawyer game of plausible deniability well enough. Everyone knows they did X, but they just have to create enough doubt to make it hard to prove it. They're obviously lying, but... it could have been (a) a miscommunication (b) someone else's fault (c) a mistake.
Clintonworld is so huge that the Clintons can easily find some people to sacrifice. They've been amassing people and paying them through the Clinton Foundation. So they can always hand someone a golden parachute. If Sandy Berger was willing to stuff classified documents into his clothes, they can find someone to take the fall for Hillary's emails.
HILLARY CLINTON MAY BLAME CLASSIFIED EMAILS ON AIDE: SOMEONE HAS TO TAKE THE FALL
No worries someone in the HIVE will take the fall..
In the HIVE they breed drones for that...
Huma Abedin is going down! Again.
No, no, no. If the aid didn’t have Clinton!’s security clearance, then she could not see it without Clinton’s approval. For instance in the military, if a Colonial gets a top secret document, he must retrieve it himself, not send a major to retrieve it for him. This is clearly spelled out in the training you must receive to get a top security clearance. If she let an aid handle the document, then she still broke the law...it is very clear. Blaming this is only spin and has no legal foundation.
It really doesn’t matter if information is marked or not. Anyone and everyone has a responsibility to report anything that “could” or should be classified and is not. A spillage of classified information onto unclassified computers and networks is serious business. It is even more problematic for someone who has classification authority.
Classified networks are totally separate from non-classified networks. You can’t email between the two without removing data with say a thumb drive and copying to a non-classified system. To do that is illegal and intentional, it can’t accidently happen.
“The Buck Never Got Here.”
A Clinton speciality, like....when Bill said “...that was Janet Reno” after Waco.
Arkancide may strike again....
The “go-to” strategy when yelling loudly and pointing into the distance fail.
Nobody will believe that an underling would do this without the direction and nod of approval from above.
If she is this clueless about classified material, that alone should disqualify her from the Presidency.
Cripes, if you’re a Clinton aide, you’re hoping you don’t hear the words “Hey, we need you to go over to Fort Marcy Park and pick up some documents from a courier whose car has broken down there...”
Her Royal B!thchiness will not take the hit. She will gladly sacrifice an innocent person.
That is what I am thinking. Who had the Secretary of State TS clearance? Hillary or Huma?
"Thanks Huma...By the way, start swinging at the 1st inmate who calls you "sweet" or worse "bitch" that way they might think you are not weak and try to rape you."
So she never saw the emails she was sending?
It doesn’t matter. If you work with classified materials, you have to report any suspected negligent discharge of classified information. As anyone in the business can tell you, there is certain information and certain combinations of information that are always classified.
Anyone seeing that information on a non-certified system and not reporting it has broken the law. You cannot take any action beside reporting—responding, forwarding, storing, deleting—all are illegal. All material evidence must be left for forensic analysis to ensure every system and every route is secured.
If you’ve been tossin her salad for years, jail is a vacation.
Do the State Dept rules say that Hillary could delegate her responsibilities with respect to classified Info to an aide?
Orange Is the New Black.
She was the secretary of state, for God’s sake.
She knew the definition of “Top Secret” and knew what type of content met that definition.
The “I didn’t know” defense wouldn’t fly for any security cleared service member, civilian employee, or contractor. It sure as hell shouldn’t fly for the Secretary of State.
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