"Senior Intelligence Officials Said" ('Hillary faces far more than political trouble.')

Real Clear Politics ^ | September 9, 2015 | Charles Lipson

[maggief]

There’s a bigger story hidden inside the New York Times report that “a special intelligence review of two emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account — including one about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program — . . . contained highly classified information when Mrs. Clinton received them, senior intelligence officials said.” The review was undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which presumably originated the material. They concluded that the material had originally been given the U.S. government’s highest secrecy classification. Even if one of Clinton’s aides stripped the markings (a felony), Secretary Clinton surely knew satellite intelligence and North Korean nuclear deployments are the U.S. government’s most highly classified information.

The media correctly saw the news as political trouble for Hillary, but they missed two other crucial elements of the story. Somebody high up in the intelligence community leaked that story. And Hillary faces far more than political trouble. She’s being fitted for an orange jumpsuit.

[servo1969]

"The NYT story came from anonymous sources. For Camp Clinton, the most ominous words are “senior intelligence officials said.” They signal just how furious the intelligence community is at the gross mishandling of their crown jewels. Since the intelligence agencies must now sort through everything Hillary has given to the State Department, plus whatever the FBI can scrape from the server, you can expect the leaks to keep on coming. Worse yet for her, the spy agencies must conduct a full-scale damage assessment, based on the high likelihood her server was hacked by foreign governments (and perhaps some 17-year-old in his parents’ basement in Belgrade).

The intelligence services remember how seriously the Department of Justice dealt with former CIA directors John Deutsch and David Petraeus, who mishandled documents. They will demand equal treatment here. They will keep the heat on by leaking to the press. The Times story shows the faucet is already open.

Hillary’s legal problems stem from the “gross mishandling” of security information, which is a serious crime. It doesn’t matter whether the materials are stamped or not. It doesn’t matter whether you intended to violate the law or not. It is a violation simply to put them anywhere that lacks adequate safeguards. Like a private server. Nobody stamped Gen. Petraeus’ personal calendar, which he kept in an unlocked drawer at home. John Deutsch was just trying to catch up on work by taking his CIA laptop home. Those mistakes are trivial compared with what Clinton is already known to have stored on her private server in Chappaqua. "

[G Larry]

Of course she intended to violate the law!

Those people didn’t go to all of the trouble to move Top Secret data to her personal e-mail, without direct orders from Hillary.

[Arlis]

The sad and possibly irrecoverable state of our nation is that, after putting an Islam-favoring Marxist in office twice, a huge part of the populace is wants to put one of the most evil, lying women to ever have been born at head of the state.

[Sgt_Schultze]

This entire episode is loaded with irony. Rodham served as an attorney who set her sights on Richard Nixon. To the extent that "she conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality,” her supervisor Zeifman allowed he would not recommend her to future employers.

What did Rodham do?
- [Rodham] wrote a brief arguing Nixon should not be granted legal counsel due to a lack of precedent. But [Rodham] deliberately ignored the then-recent case of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who was allowed to have a lawyer during the impeachment attempt against him in 1970.

- [Rodham] bolstered her fraudulent brief by removing all of the Douglas files from public access and storing them at her office, enabling her to argue as if the case never existed.

It's clear this woman is a pathological lawbreaker. What's funny is Nixon may yet have his revenge, by having his tormentor serve the sentence she desired for him.

[Slyfox]

“Jerry used to give the chapter and verse as to how Hillary was the mole into the committee works as to how things were going,” Polk said.

"Deep Throat"?

[HarleyLady27]

Some more thoughts on this from me:

Because obuma is muslim, I think he thought that he could over throw any government he wanted to, he set up all the others in the ‘arab spring’ and thought by putting shillary in Benghazi, he could run his guns to the muslims of Syria...what he wasn't counting on is how clever the head of the Syrian government was...(he actually needed the guns and stuff to supply the ISIS regime) so now obuma has his dirty hands for all to see, along with shillary, and holden....

He did this with fast and furious also, and got caught...if ever an administration should be brought up on treason of our country, this administration, from pencil sharpener to the head of the oval office, this is the one....

[Buckeye McFrog]

She forgot the #1 rule of senior national leadership: NEVER p*ss off your spooks.

They know where all the bodies are buried, and have a penchant for getting even.

[Nip]

Since Democratic politicians are excessively focused on their legacies and how they will be view by history, let me offer up one possible legacy statement for Hillary Rodham Clinton:

She will be remembered in future US Histories, if any, as the 21st Century’s Benedict Arnold.

I had thought about Dr Samuel Mudd but realized that Dr Mudd’s transgression in 1865 wasn’t close to Hillary has done. And now that I think about it a little more even General Benedict Arnold’s transgressions don’t match Hillary’s!

[Nifster]

indeed

and the clinton’s are slimy enough to wiggle out of anything

[Nifster]

oops brain freeze...should have been Clintons

[true believer forever]

[maggief]

“She will be remembered in future US Histories, if any, as the 21st Century’s Benedict Arnold.”

Perhaps that is why she is so desperate to run.

[Dubh_Ghlase]

So do the Clinton's. They are not without resources, and if this turns into a shooting war, expect the nukes to be deployed hard, fast, and repeatedly. Hillary will not take kindly to becoming a grease streak behind the Obama Bus...

Plenty of popcorn with lots of butter...!

[Ms Mable]

Really? I can’t even bring myself to comment on that situation. Please pardon me while I puke....

[Fantasywriter]

You may be right. The first person to file a so-called ‘birther’ lawsuit was a Clinton supporter. Wouldn’t it be ironic if the true location of Obama’s birth came out as a result of him trying to drive his bus over Hillary?