Posted on 01/22/2016 7:46:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind
If true, the latest revelation about Hillary Clinton’s secret e-mail system goes way beyond “smoking gun.” It reaches the level of full core meltdown when it comes to US national security and the safety of American intel sources. Fox News reporters Catherine Herridge report that the Inspector General has noted that information in one or more e-mails contained information classified as “HCS-O,” denoting extraordinarily sensitive material that could put a human intel source at high risk if exposed:
At least one of the emails on Hillary Clinton’s private server contained extremely sensitive information identified by an intelligence agency as “HCS-O,” which is the code used for reporting on human intelligence sources in ongoing operations, according to two sources not authorized to speak on the record.
Both sources are familiar with the intelligence community inspector general's January 14 letter to Congress, advising the Oversight committees that intelligence beyond Top Secret — known as Special Access Program (SAP) — was identified in the Clinton emails, as well the supporting documents from the affected agencies that owned the information and have final say on classification.
According to a December 2013 policy document released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence: "The HSC-0 compartment (Operations) is used to protect exceptionally fragile and unique IC (intelligence community) clandestine HUMINT operations and methods that are not intended for dissemination outside of the originating agency."
It is not publicly known whether the information contained in the Clinton emails also revealed who the human source was, their nationality or affiliation.
According to the Authorized Classification and Control Markings Register, the HCS classification applies to human intelligence (HUMINT) that is also classified at the SCI level — Sensitive Compartmented Information. The SCI classification is itself another form of higher classification; we first saw this come up in the context of Hillary’s e-mail system last summer, when Top Secret/Compartmented data from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and NSA showed up in her e-mails. That dealt with satellite data about North Korea’s nuclear program, and the exposure of that data could have allowed our enemies the ability to render our satellite data-collection capabilities useless.
If Hillary’s server transmitted and retained SCI/HCS in an unsecured and unauthorized manner, the US would be very lucky to still have that source available to us. This goes beyond gross negligence; it demonstrates an utter contempt not only for national security, but for the risks faced by those who gather intelligence and cooperate with the US to safeguard the country.
Herridge and Browne also report that IG Charles McCullough has briefed key members of Congress on just how much this was not just an “interagency dispute” over publicly discussed topics:
The source said that the “several dozen” refers to the main or principal email thread identified by reviewers, not the number of times that classified information was forwarded, replied to or copied to people who did not have a "need-to-know" using unsecured communication channels — in this case a personal server. More than one Special Access Program was affected. …
The two declarations provided to the heads of the House and Senate Intelligence committees — as well as the leadership of Senate Foreign Affairs with oversight for the State Department — include the emails containing SAP intelligence, as well as supporting documents from the agency affected, showing how they reached the determination it came from one of its sources, and not from publicly available information.
The originators of this information would know precisely what came from sources in the clear, and which came from their most sensitive data. The question will be whether the FBI has also mapped out the manner in which this information got manipulated into unsecured systems so that the Secretary of State could hide her communications from Congress and the courts, and whether the Department of Justice will prosecute what might be the worst spillage outside of a purposeful espionage effort in recent memory, if not ever.
Update: Robert Gates told Hugh Hewitt yesterday that the “odds are pretty high” that Russia, China, and Iran had compromised Hillary’s home-brew server:
HH: One of your colleagues, Mike Morell, said on this program, or actually agreed with my assertion that almost certainly, Russians, Chinese and Iranians had compromised the home brew server of the former Secretary of State. He agreed with that. Do you agree with his assessment of my assessment?
RG: Well, given the fact that the Pentagon acknowledges that they get attacked about 100,000 times a day, I think the odds are pretty high.
HH: And so if they had real time access to her server, would that have compromised national security?
RG: Well, again, it would depend entirely on what she put on there. And I just, I haven't read any of these emails, so I don't know what was on those servers.
If it’s SCI and HSC information, then the clear answer is yes.
this is the REAL REAL thing that will get her.
come on guys, i’ll go to prison for jay walking before she goes to prison for any of this.
Hot Air and Townhall care. nobody else does
reality quote:
he/she, whoever owns hundreds of millions of dollars and has the dem party in their hands, will NEVER EVER EVER see jail or hanging, that one is laughable.
the people that think it is possible haven’t looked around their country in a long long long long lonely time.
Oh dear God, let’s cut the daily ‘revelations’ and masturbatory fantasies of a clean FBI investigation and subsequent hitlery prosecution.
The Deep State runs these people. How do you think an unknown, half-white, communist, sodomite, muslim, doper, anti-American, junior state senator whose entire life history is sealed or obfuscated or serial lies or black holed became potus? Why did the enemedia pick him up from day one and pound, pound, pound 24x7 until he was ‘elected?’
How’s that Benghazi “investigation” working out for everybody? Prosecuting the CIA for an illegal war in Syria? Running arms to CIA creation ISIS via Turkey?
hitlery will be prosecuted the same day huma is prosecuted for being a MB enemy agent.
Every agency in the world knew about hitlery’s email server including the former Republic’s.
Water is wet, cancer is bad, sky is blue.
I’ve long believed that unsecured emails betrayed the position of ambassador Stevens, allowing a well planned, coordinated attack on the locations.
It may not have been Hillary’s server that revealed the location and itinerary of the ambassador. Hillary’s secret, yet unsecured email account was discovered after emails exchanged between her formerly secret account and that of Sidney Blumenthal were discovered on an Eastern European hacker’s system. Many of those emails discussed Libya.
Mark
Don’t like hearing or reading such yet I fear you are correct....... hope yer well.
Stay Safe !!!
Always, in the arms of Jesus.
Mark
Hillary Clinton's secret email address is revealed as infamous 'Guccifer' hack exposed some of her messages and the White House washes its hands of the mess 3 March 2015Some of the messages Guccifer leaked online consisted of intelligence reports, sent in late 2012 to Clinton's back-channel address, and covered matters in Libya - including the aftermath of the September 11, 2012 terror attack in Benghazi.
Hillary + the Ceausescu Protocol = a very good start.
“People could have already been killed over this and we would never know”
Her hacked email led directly to the Benghazi massacre, prove it otherwise Cancklebeast.
Who is “they”? The FBI doesn't indict; it investigates, then recommends whether the Justice Department should indict. The FBI has not finished its investigation, to which it has assigned more than 100 agents. If there's a case to be made against a fish as big as HRC, it must be an airtight case, so the FBI has good reason to move slowly and methodically. If the FBI ends up recommending HRC be indicted, Attorney General Loretta Lynch has three options: say that she's not persuaded the report on HRC compels she be indicted; indict HRC; or request that Obama appoint a Special Prosecutor. (Note: I am unsure whether the AG himself/herself appoints special prosecutors or requests that the President do so. Similarly, I am unsure whether a President is compelled to grant such a request.)
I understand why so many freepers are convinced that HRC will “skate”, but I think those freepers are off-base this time. While I don't think HRC will get what she “deserves”, which is prison, I do believe the good times are over for her and that she'll either never be President or will leave the office mid-term, in disgrace. The Clinton cult of personality is only so strong. Within a a couple of years, when the HRC email scandal will have come to a head, both Clintons will be in their 70s — no longer the “future” of the Democratic Party. Their supporters will focus their energies on keeping HRC out of prison, not on ensuring she becomes or remains President.
The Clintons do nothing for free. Everything is for sale at the right price.
As recipient of the email, she knew of the personal risk involved, as did the SENDER!
In view of the incredible risk, both the Beast and originator of the email expected huge monetary returns.
Just who sent this email and to whom and for what purpose did someone or country pay an enormous sum?
Scooter Libby was prosecuted for having a different recollection of events than Tim Russert and found gulity by a jury led by Tim Russert’s neighbor.. not for “outing” anyone.. but hillary actually outed agents and operations and she in line for president..
Bump. Good label.
LOL!!
The big question is where or when would originate an indictment? FBI? Congress? I honestly don’t know.
The other would ‘ve why has it not yet happened...specifically?
Bombshell.
That’s the title of stories of charges that are never filed.
Department of Justice is the only current entity that can indict in this case.
We are not talking about incarceration if men died.
We are talking about the death penalty.
She fervently is hoping not to be on Obama’s bad side when he walks out the door in one year.
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