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'Born classified': Hillary Clinton's best argument in the email scandal just got destroyed
Reuters ^ | 21 Aug 15 | Unknown

Posted on 08/21/2015 5:30:48 AM PDT by elhombrelibre

NEW YORK (Reuters) - For months, the U.S. State Department has stood behind its former boss Hillary Clinton as she has repeatedly said she did not send or receive classified information on her unsecured, private email account, a practice the government forbids.

While the department is now stamping a few dozen of the publicly released emails as "Classified," it stresses this is not evidence of rule-breaking. Those stamps are new, it says, and do not mean the information was classified when Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner in the 2016 presidential election, first sent or received it.

But the details included in those "Classified" stamps — which include a string of dates, letters and numbers describing the nature of the classification — appear to undermine this account, a Reuters examination of the emails and the relevant regulations has found.

The new stamps indicate that some of Clinton's emails from her time as the nation's most senior diplomat are filled with a type of information the U.S. government and the department's own regulations automatically deems classified from the get-go — regardless of whether it is already marked that way or not.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: New York
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To: elhombrelibre; hoosiermama; LucyT; Liz

FOR THE SECRETARY’S EYES ONLY
Clinton and her senior staff routinely sent foreign government information among themselves on unsecured networks several times a month, if the State Department’s markings are correct. Within the 30 email threads reviewed by Reuters, Clinton herself sent at least 17 emails that contained this sort of information. In at least one case it was to a friend, Sidney Blumenthal, not in government.

The information appears to include privately shared comments by a prime minister, several foreign ministers and a foreign spy chief, unredacted bits of the emails show. Typically, Clinton and her staff first learned the information in private meetings, telephone calls or, less often, in email exchanges with the foreign officials.

In an email from November 2009, the principal private secretary to David Miliband, then the British foreign secretary, indicates that he is passing on information about Afghanistan from his boss in confidence. He writes to Huma Abedin, Clinton’s most senior aide, that Miliband “very much wants the Secretary (only) to see this note.”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbLvvOlgAm4

Clinton Spox Awkwardly Stumbles When Trying To Answer Why Clinton Wiped Her Secret Server Clean


21 posted on 08/21/2015 5:58:16 AM PDT by maggief
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To: elhombrelibre

I hope her arrest date is September 2016.


22 posted on 08/21/2015 5:58:25 AM PDT by umgud
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To: elhombrelibre

Her argument (which the article now destroys) might have had legal merit.

But no more. If this is how the diplomatic world rules on classified information, that any (non-electronic) information from foreign sources is always presumed confidential at least, she is in major trouble.


23 posted on 08/21/2015 5:58:25 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: rjsimmon

OK, so as SOS she WAS getting some classified emails... if none of those on her server were not classified (yeah, right) WHERE were the classified emails she received going? To another server?


24 posted on 08/21/2015 5:59:34 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Race Baiting...... "It's What's For Breakfast")
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To: PapaBear3625

“A proper secured system would not have allowed her to send classified data to a recipient who did not have the proper security clearance.”

There you have it in a nutshell. This is the exact reason why those with access to classified info are NOT to use anything that is not totally secured. Her mania to keep her deals hidden hopefully will lead to her downfall from grace. Unfortunately, I think it will require the equal of a constitutional amendment to get her prosecuted.


25 posted on 08/21/2015 6:01:19 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Re: If she ONLY used her server for all email, she had no other way to get classified information, did she?

I am confused too. She sets up this server for convenience to do her work. But to do her job she would need to be able to receive and send classified materials as well as unclassified. But if she only received and sent unclassified materials on this server, how could she do her job?


26 posted on 08/21/2015 6:02:08 AM PDT by Nevadan
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To: Paladin2

Hillary isn’t dumb. She’s corrupt to the core. She did this intentionally but thought she could get away it.


27 posted on 08/21/2015 6:02:45 AM PDT by McGruff (Trump/Cruz 2016 - My Dream Team)
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To: albie
She embodies a sociopathic personality: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV-TR) is another widely used tool for the diagnosis and it defines sociopath traits as: A) Pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others occurring since age 15 years, as indicated by three or more of the following:

Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest Deception, as indicated by repeatedly lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure

Impulsiveness or failure to plan ahead

Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults

Reckless disregard for safety of self or others

Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations

Lack of remorse as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another

28 posted on 08/21/2015 6:02:45 AM PDT by verga (I might as well be playng chess with pigeons.)
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To: Old Sarge

What Reuters has reported in this article could be a real game changer.
The information it reveals suggests HRC was not only being negligent in the performance of her duties, but criminal!


29 posted on 08/21/2015 6:03:23 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: McGruff

Exactly.

She is counting on the American people to be dumb.


30 posted on 08/21/2015 6:07:23 AM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: a fool in paradise
By normal mainstream media standards, this is pretty hard hitting. What's your point about the spin?
31 posted on 08/21/2015 6:07:25 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: verga

Thanks for the info. So it’s a mental disorder.


32 posted on 08/21/2015 6:07:37 AM PDT by albie
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To: albie

“With everything she’s done in her life, I still marvel at how she sleeps at night. No conscience whatsoever.”

I don’t think she really does.

Just look at her. Even with inch thick professional makeup...


33 posted on 08/21/2015 6:10:38 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: rjsimmon

I agree and thought this from day one. The information she had to deal with everyday was inherently such that it would be classified. The level of damage that it would do to US interests, which is how a determination is made of classification - confidential, secret, and top secret - might not be obvious in a verbal discussion that then gets put into an email. Still, you know when you deal with sensitive and obviously classified information that you do not send it unencrypted over a NIPR network. It’s so wrong and so foolish that only a Clinton would try to tell the public this is fine.


34 posted on 08/21/2015 6:11:49 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: odawg

I know she’s quite gross. Isn’t it funny that the Democrats are forced to sell her to their base as young, hip, and inspirational.


35 posted on 08/21/2015 6:12:42 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: elhombrelibre

36 posted on 08/21/2015 6:13:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: elhombrelibre

If not Hillary, why the Rosenbergs?


37 posted on 08/21/2015 6:14:04 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: All
Clinton and her senior staff routinely sent foreign government information among themselves on unsecured networks several times a month, if the State Department’s markings are correct. Within the 30 email threads reviewed by Reuters, Clinton herself sent at least 17 emails that contained this sort of information. In at least one case it was to a friend, Sidney Blumenthal, not in government.

All possible connections WRT these activites and donations to the buck-raking Clinton Foundation must be explored. The cunning Clintons are hiding plenty.....however, the smirking Sid Blumenthal's emails should sound numerous L/E alarms.

DOCUMENTED CONSPIRACY AND COLLUSION TO DECEIVE: In 2009, the Clintons duped the public, the Clinton Foundation's Board of Directors, and its wealthy donors by announcing Sidney Blumenthal, a long-time adviser to both Clintons, had been hired...... (wait for it) "to work at the Clinton Foundation on a project to promote Bill Clinton’s presidential legacy. "

(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)

But Sid's secret emails show that, while on the foundation payroll, ostensibly "promoting Bill's legacy," Blumenthal fed back-channel, usually unreliable, intelligence reports on Libya to then-Secy of State Clinton.

Hillary sent Sid's reports on to senior State official without attribution......as if they were her analyses.

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The NYT reports extensively on Blumenthal's secret emails to Hillary (emails she did not want revealed):

<><> the Clintons announced Blumenthal was hired @ $320,000 per year by the Clinton Foundation to "promote Bill's presidential legacy",

<><> at the same time Blumenthal was tight w/ American Bridge and Media Matters — two Democratic groups aiding 2016 Clinton's effort,

<><> Blumenthal was also a paid advisor to businesses seeking Libyan contracts (compromising US ntl interests, by marketing his influence at the State Dept);

<><> Clinton Foundation employee Blumenthal was secretly advising Secy of State Clinton about Libya @$320,000 per year.;

<><> at the same time, Sid also pocketed $200,000 a year from Clinton political ally David Brock's media operations

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38 posted on 08/21/2015 6:14:10 AM PDT by Liz
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To: elhombrelibre

Stick in a fork in her (stand clear when ya do).


39 posted on 08/21/2015 6:16:43 AM PDT by Lake Living
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To: elhombrelibre

40 posted on 08/21/2015 6:16:54 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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