Posted on 02/13/2016 9:47:20 AM PST by Enlightened1
More than 15 percent of the latest batch of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails released Saturday contain classified information, with three of the messages being labeled “secret” — continuing to add to the questions surrounding her email use.
One of the messages is an extensive missive from David Satterfield, a top U.S. diplomat to Egypt, who told top officials in both the White House and State Department about negotiations in the Sinai. The entire contents of the messages are now deemed “secret,” though there is no indication they were marked as such at the time. The message was forwarded to Mrs. Clinton by top aide Jacob Sullivan.
In addition to the three “secret” messages, more than 80 others were marked “confidential” — the lower level of secrecy — and also heavily redacted.
The department released 551 messages Saturday in response to a federal judge’s order.
The department had hoped to delay the release of the messages until the end of this month, which would have meant voters in more than a dozen states would have cast ballots in the Democratic presidential primary with little chance to digest the emails.
Judge Rudolph Contreras instead ordered the department to release the messages in installments, with Saturday’s being the first of a series that will last until Feb. 29.
All of the emails were supposed to have been released by Jan. 29, or before the first votes were cast. But just ahead of that deadline, and with a snowstorm hitting Washington, the State Department told Judge Contreras they’d recently discovered more than 4,000 emails they’d never sent out to other agencies to check for classified or other private material.
In a filing late Friday, a top State Department open-records official took blame for his department breaking the end-of-January deadline.
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And she still walks the streets a free person....where is the justice???
But they were not “marked” classified at the time she sent or received them (since she chose not to mark them classified) so it is ok.
Under the same logic, you can tell classified secrets to anyone you want since your words are not “marked” classified at the time that they leave your mouth.
We used to call stuff classified as “confidential” cornyfidential. “Confidential” is actually a stupid classification, because anything can be called “confidential.”
Having a hot mistress. Huma doesn't qualify LOL
Petraeus had a folder in the bottom of his desk drawer at home with a classified letter inside. Let’s see how the FBI can get around arresting Hillary for endangering the nation’s security in such a flagrant manner.
How can anyone vote for that “congenital liar”?
Seriously? It was ONLY 15%. Maybe the new threshold is like 25% to actually be considered an offense. /s
Since she had no gov’t email, are we to believe she did not send/receive any classified material in her tenure?
“But just ahead of that deadline, and with a snowstorm hitting Washington, the State Department told Judge Contreras they’d recently discovered more than 4,000 emails they’d never sent out to other agencies to check for classified or other private material.”
I’ve just added another couple of words to my “Dictionary of Political Words Which Cause My Sphincter to Tighten!” Those words are: “recently discovered.”
That’s just in the latest round of released emails.
When feds want to down play a number.... it’s almost always 2 1/2 to 3 times that number and vice versa if they want to play up a number.
So when they say it’s only 15%, then know it’s some where between 38% up to 45% of the email.
This is great. Everyone needs to email this out, and share it on social media.
“....where is the justice???”
Justice is for the little people.
Nothing will come from this. I think its time to drop these stories from FR since there will never be an indictment with this “Justice” Dept.
These stories only drive us nuts.
As punishment for stating some truth about Benghazi.....which has been buried.
Everything on her server except personal stuff is secret. The idea that she owns it in any way or can distribute as she pleases, is ridiculous.
She thinks because she did not send them, they just appeared on her server, she is innocent. I wish an indictment would come down on her and soon!
What seems to have disappeared from the reporting is the fact that just setting up the server to handle ANY government business was in strict violation of the law.
I’d like to hear some of our ersatz conservative congressmen and pithy pundits point that out more often (or how about even mentioning it once?)
“It happened so long ago, what difference does it make?” Hildebeast said.
The focus needs to zero in on “Pay for Play” corruption.....the private server furor isn’t causing any sort of ripple among the population.
all animals are equal except pigs, and they are more equal
(until they are hams and bacon and ribs)
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