Posted on 09/07/2016 7:25:05 PM PDT by AJFavish
At the military issues forum tonight Hillary lied again when she said that material is not classified unless it is marked as such. FBI Director Comey and other security experts say the opposite.
http://time.com/4483355/commander-chief-forum-clinton-trump-intrepid/
Hillary said:
But the real question is the handling of classified material, which is I think what the implication of your question was. And for all the viewers watching you tonight, I have a lot of experience dealing with classified material, starting when I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee going into the four years as secretary of state. Classified material has a header which says “top secret,” “secret,” “confidential.” Nothing — and I will repeat this, and this is verified in the report by the Department of Justice — none of the e-mails sent or received by me had such a header.
. . .
CLINTON: Well, I appreciate your concern and also your experience. But let me try to make the distinctions that I think are important for me to answer your question.
First, as I said to Matt, you know and I know classified material is designated. It is marked. There is a header so that there is no dispute at all that what is being communicated to or from someone who has that access is marked classified.
And what we have here is the use of an unclassified system by hundreds of people in our government to send information that was not marked, there were no headers, there was no statement, top secret, secret, or confidential.
I communicated about classified material on a wholly separate system. I took it very seriously. When I traveled, I went into one of those little tents that I’m sure you’ve seen around the world because we didn’t want there to be any potential for someone to have embedded a camera to try to see whatever it is that I was seeing that was designated, marked, and headed as classified.
Excerpt:
Still, Comey said Clinton should have known better: “There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation.” He noted that “even if information is not marked ‘classified’ in an e-mail, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.”
On July 8, Clinton’s language over emails changed again: “I certainly did not believe that I received or sent any material that was classified, and, indeed, any of the documents that have been referred to, I think were not marked, or were marked inaccurately, as has now been clarified.”
Strictly speaking, classification markings do not render information classified, and the absence of classification markings do not render it unclassified, said Steven Aftergood, director of the government secrecy project at the Federation of American Scientists. In fact, a person can share classified information at a cocktail party.
“If there is no banner or header at the top of a classified email indicating that it is classified, then it is improperly marked. But the lack of such a banner does not in itself render the email unclassified. There might still be classified information in it,” Aftergood said. “The lack of a banner does, however, explain how a recipient might easily consider it unclassified. Isolated portion markings such as ‘(C)’ might easily be overlooked or dismissed as errors, especially if their content seems innocuous.”
It is worse that that! She says it is not classified unless there is a security header, and one of the released emails has here actually directing that headers be removed from classified emails in order to send them on her private server.
She is counting on the average voter to not know hoe classified information is controlled or that she sent her staffer an email to remove security classification headers from messages and send them to her unsecured server.
Liars gotta lie.
Ahhhhhh....intent
She said tonight that anything classified she used a totally different system. This is the first I’ve heard of that.
I am sick of lying liar liberals lying in my face. The Clintons have taken lying to a new level. It is an insult.
Lie till ya die.
I’d bet that almost every official communication between the SofS and state department, or other government officials would at least be classified as “Confidential”, and quite a few would be classified higher.
This whole thing is totally bizarre, especially to anyone who’s been in the military and handled any degree of classified material.
Wouldn't removing a header be criminal???
if not...anyone could declassify a document by just removing the header...
One would think that every work related document handled by the Secretary of State should be (AND IS) considered as classified. Otherwise, they could just publish it in the Sunday news.
Guess that big C on top of every email meant absolutely NOTHING to her..cant wait for Wikileaks to show everyone what a total fraud that b*tch is I cant stand looking at her lying murdering face
Plus, alot of these emails were cut and paste jobs from classified documents. So, the email sent had no classified header, but all of the material inside was classified.
Cliton likes nothing more than the salty taste on her lips when she muff dives on her islamic girls.
I found it hilarious today that the “not very sophisticated” Clintoon had become an expert on classified documents. She now knows all about “headers” and sh*t. They must have had a hell of a time shoving all of that down her throat and hoping that she could “remember” and “recall” it long enough to talk about it with the “media”.
“Liars gotta lie.”
She told a number of lies tonight. Another was no Americans died in Libya. I guess Ambassador Stevens and the others do not count.
Tell a lie often enough it becomes the truth.
She’s just NOT presidential material but she thinks she’s entitled to it because she’s been hobnobbing with all the worldly big shots for so long.
What a joke this harridan shrew is.
Let the average GI remove a header and put in into an e-mail and see how fast he ends up in Leavenworth! Or generate any document that talks about intel methods and sources, unannounced troop movements or specific comments on nuclear weapons storage without putting the headings and paragraph markings on it and see where it lands you.
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