Posted on 01/10/2016 3:55:01 PM PST by Libloather
Hillary Clinton on Sunday defended instructing an aide to send information to her through a "nonsecure" channel, saying the data she requested was not classified and accusing her presidential rivals of seeking to score political points over a non-issue.
The State Department released more than 3,000 of Clinton's emails from her time as secretary of State on Friday. One of the emails has drawn scrutiny because in it, Clinton, who was awaiting a secure fax detailing talking points, instructed an adviser to turn the talking points into "nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure" because the fax wasn't coming through.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has called the email "disturbing," but Clinton on Sunday defended her actions and said the talking points were "never sent" in a non-secure fashion.
"This is another instance where what is common practice - I need information, I had some points I had to make, and I was waiting for a secure fax that could give me the whole picture, but oftentimes there is a lot of information that isn't at all classified," Clinton said Sunday on 'Face the Nation.' "So whatever information can be appropriately transmitted unclassified often was. That's true for every agency in the government and everybody that does business with the government."
In the email marked June 17, 2011, Clinton told aide Jake Sullivan that she hadn't yet received a set of talking points.
"They say they've had issues sending secure fax," Sullivan says. "They're working on it."
Responded Clinton: "If they can't, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure."
"The important point here is that I had great confidence because I worked with Jake Sullivan for years," Clinton said. "He is the most meticulous, careful person you could possibly do business with and he knew exactly what was and wasn't appropriate."
Anybody else and they would already been charged
Her low-information voter base doesn’t give a rat’s ass about classified information. Couldn’t care less about it.
Just keep those freebies coming, Hillary!
The fundamental integrity of the FBI rests on how they treat her.
Every agent, and they know it.
Yeah, think about the Oregon ranchers that burned less than an acre.
I’d also ask why the heck the government can’t successfully send a secure fax to the Secretary of State?
And duh if they try to send this stuff in a secure way there must be a reason.
We are nation of laws, not Hildabeasts with canckles.
She sure does know how to lie and put the responsibility
on someone else....but one of these days that someone
isn’t going to take the fall and spend years in prison
just for Herself to walk around free.
This has become pathetic.
She’s guilty. She knows she’s guilty. She knows we know she’s guilty. Yet, she’s out there on national television lying.
This is just another film clip they will show in ten years to display how evil Hillary Clinton was.
Bravo, Democrats, bravo.
Make the old grandma look stupid to try and protect your party.
Don’t know if she belongs in prison but it sure sounds like she’s stupid, lazy and careless.
And an intelligent leader can talk without being faxed “talking points”.
She KNOWS how to delete the headers from an email to remove traceability, yet she does not have a clue about wiping a hard drive?
Since Onambla...no agency has any shred of integrity. That would specifically include the Just-Us Dept. under Holder and now under Lynch.
All of these agencies are stuffed with democRAT apparatchiks, who are democRATS first, last and always. The agenda is all that matters, and if they have to crack a few eggs, so be it.
This from the same ditzy, socialist bimbo who thought Benghazi was a “non-issue” as Americans there were asking for help as they were fighting for their lives on 09-11-2012. Throw her ass in jail! I have no use for politicians who turn their backs on Americans in trouble. KMA Clinton! I don’t want YOU “fighting” for me.
Maybe their idiot base doesn’t care but the Democratic Party bosses sure do, and they don’t want the prospect of four to eight years of having to defend and clean up the messes of the Clintons again!
And the useless Republican boobs who control both houses of Congress do nothing.
Donald Trump! He stirs them to action. He must be stopped! He’s going to destroy the country! He’s going to destroy the world!
But about Hillary and Obama? Not a damn word. Silence.
“issues sending secure fax,”
Not the same as “the fax wasn’t coming through”
Since you mentioned Benghazi .... have you seen this? It came out today.
Rescue Interruped (Sharyl Attkisson - Full Measure) http://fullmeasure.news/news/politics/rescue-interrupted
Full Measure investigates new information about what may be the most confounding mystery surrounding the Benghazi controversy: Why no outside US military help came to the rescue as terrorists battered two compounds and the Americans inside over nearly eight long hours.
Transcript: http://kval.com/news/nation-world/full-measure-rescue-interrupted
With the Clintons there is always some complete BS excuse. So it’s a classified document but there is plenty of unclassified “stuff” in there, so when she told an aide to just remove the label and send it as unclassified, of course she knew they would only send the non secret stuff and are they bored listening yet?
Wouldn’t this be like General Petraeus saying he knew he could trust his girlfriend? I’m sure he thought he could but he never claimed that made it ok to bend the rules on secret information.
I won’t be holding my breath on the FBI coming down with a referral for an indictment against Hillary.
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