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.
"I did not have textual relations with that server"
Hillary and Obama can’t run a two person dictatorship. They need helpers. Helpers can realize that they are being sacrificed and turn on Hillary and Obama.
This is the best summer I’ve had since I was a kid.
yeah, but i’m on my computr <~~~~ oops see????
**Fake fire a bunch of lower ranked people.**
The Obamagumbe drill is to find some middle management stiff close to retirement, give him a large under-the-table cash payment and he gets full retirement benefits (gold-plated health, etc.) a stern talking-to (possibly probation if someone died) and he then goes on the lucrative Lamebrain U. lecture circuit.
Hillary walks to the WH.
“The aide is willing to go to jail for Hillary??
Webster Hubell did”
I’m guessing it may be the best of two really bad options.
There is no big picture to security violations like this. It is pretty cut and dried who had the clearance. Hillary is responsible for anything that happened to data that only she was cleared for, allowing other people who are not specifically cleared to have access to that data to handle it is itself a violation. Everything else is just spin for people who do not know how classified information is supposed to be handled.
Granted.. they're going to try to protect her but truthfully Gowdy has her.
The REAL question?.. will he actually do anything in terms of INDICTMENT?.. or will the "good ol' boys" club continue right along???
Nah, she’s black.
there are NO innocent people in Clinton’s circle....NONE!!!! they are ALL DIRTY CRIMINALS!!!
“You know there is a desease which causes you to be unable to see your typos until after you hit post”
You spelled disease incorrectly.
Just saying.
Huma’s going down for Hillary...
And it won’t be the first time.
What’s more, in the wake of the Bradley Manning scandal, the government doubled down to prevent the illegal download or transfer of classified material. I got out of the business back in 2008—before anyone had ever heard of Manning or Edward Snowden. But at the intel center where I worked, it was impossible to find a workstation that allowed analysts to download/transfer files by thumb drive or similar device. If you wanted to move a file from SIPRNET (Secret) to JWICS (TS/SCI), it had to be done by an administrator, on a machine that permitted the upload/download of classified information.
If there were actual satellite images in her e-mails (doubtful), then someone was actually moving documents between systems (an obvious crime). More likely, the information was probably paraphrased from the original intel documents, with enough material to warrant the classification at TS/SCI level.
To borrow a phrase from Webb Hubbell, I wonder if Huma or Cheryl Mills will be the first to “roll over” for Hillary.
“Do the State Dept rules say that Hillary could delegate her responsibilities with respect to classified Info to an aide?”
Need clearance. Background check, associations, relations with foreign governments, etc. And once all of that is approved, only then can you get a CAC or PIV card to use a computer that accesses classified material.
If they were using a private system, that would be a serious security breach, punishable with fines, jail, both as well as for the boss.
Is there no panic among the agents and other current secret operations due to this potentially vast breach of our countrys security? Im not seeing an urgency to recover all that is missing.
The Plame fiasco had everyone freaking out and she wasnt even covert.
For 20yrs to life?
Not likely.
The ONLY question is how many have already contacted the FBI and US Attorney's trying to cut a deal.
to borrow from the ‘nyuk nyuk nyuk guys’:
HUMA HUMA HUMA NUHKAH NOOMAH HUH!
He and Obama are on a remote Hawaiian beach with a case of rum, and unnamed college cheer squad and a half ounce.
Yukking it up to beat the blazes:)
Not really.
The E-3 on duty got the message, marked one paper copy and logged it's serial number, then called the DO to come down and sign for it.
It is 100.1% impossible to occur by accident, by design.
It requires human intervention and intent.
And it will be traceable in all cases.
This stuff was tracked to the Nth degree.
This was inside espionage.
And you think her underlines don't know that?
There's a line outside the local FBI office, everyone waiting to tell their side of the story.
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