Fox News reports that the email exchange between Hillary Clinton and Cheryl Mills is reminiscent of another email exchange between her and then-State Department deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan, where she directed Sullivan “to strip the classification markings of sensitive talking points and send through non-secure fax.”
“They say they’ve had issues sending secure fax. They’re working on it,” Sullivan wrote to Clinton in 2011.
“If they can’t, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure,” Clinton wrote back.
What she ordered Mills to do was to scan a paper copy of a very classified document and then to edit the electronic version removing the headings. The highest likelihood all this was done on an unclassified computer system.
In the military, DoD or even in industrial security under NISPOM this is an egregious deliberate violation. The kind for which you get 10 years in prison and a substantial fine.
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