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Unquestionably An OPSEC Violation’: Clinton Sent US Operations Info To Podesta’s Hacked Email
Daily Caller ^ | October 21, 2016 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 10/21/2016 5:11:17 PM PDT by bobsunshine

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s sending of U.S. intelligence information to her campaign chair’s unsecured email address is “unquestionably” an operations security violation, according to an intelligence expert.

“It’s unquestionably an OPSEC violation,” Dr. John Schindler, a former NSA analyst and national security expert, told The Daily Caller News Foundation, regarding an email Clinton sent to Podesta that included U.S. intelligence sources.

OPSEC stands for operations security — meaning the keeping of critical military intelligence out of enemy hands. The email was published online by WikiLeaks from Clinton aide John Podesta’s hacked Gmail account.

U.S. intelligence officials suspect Russia was behind the hack, and a private cyber security firm recently linked the hackers were linked Russian intelligence.

Schindler said specific information in the hacked email regarding a confidential “source in Tripoli” was “not something anybody should be putting in unclassified email.”

Clinton sent Podesta an email in August 2014 giving her assessment of what needs to be done in the Middle East. Clinton said her sources were based on “Western intelligence, US intelligence and sources” in the Middle East, and specifically referred to a source in Libya.

[dcquiz] “A source in Tripoli stated in confidence that when the U.S. Embassy was evacuated, the presence of two U.S. Navy jet fighters over the city brought all fighting to a halt for several hours, as Islamist forces were not certain that these aircraft would not also provide close ground support for moderate government forces,” Clinton wrote to Podesta.

The email was one of thousands of published online by WikiLeaks. Schindler said it’s unclear if the email contained any “secret” information or what classification of the intelligence was Clinton presented to Podesta.

“It’s tough to say if it’s secret — US military moves usually are considered such at the time it happens,” Schindler said, adding the “exact classification would depend on how they learned this.”

Clinton sent the email from a private account she began using after leaving the Department of State that’s based out of her home in Chappaqua, New York. The FBI has already investigated Clinton over her handling of classified information while serving as Secretary of State, including storing classified materials on her private email server.

FBI Director James Comey said Clinton’s handling of classified materials was “extremely careless,” but declined to recommend bringing charges against the former State Department head.


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alqaedarico; arkancideplus; clintonrico; opsec; podesta; podestaemails; treasonrico; wikileaks
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To: bobsunshine

this is rich to me it shows knowledge thus intent..hillary lecturing on cyber security!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/21/clinton-lectured-state-dept-staff-on-cybersecurity-in-2010-video.html


21 posted on 10/21/2016 6:06:35 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: bobsunshine

Many people were MURDERED because of these lapses.

Seal Teams were MURDERED.

Is that not Felonies and treason.

Covered up by Comey-the-Crooked with
exculpatory LIES.


22 posted on 10/21/2016 6:07:37 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Liz

Huma said Hellary is often confused. I’m still thinking she may have sent emails using Hellary’s password and address. All those thousands of emails couldn’t have been sent by just one person.


23 posted on 10/21/2016 6:48:20 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bobsunshine

Seems this also proves she also knew that 2 fighter jets over Benghazi might have saved the lives of Ambassador Stevens and the three others holed up against a savage mob. As we all knew, she never asked for and Obama never sent those jets.


24 posted on 10/21/2016 10:42:09 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: old curmudgeon

To the Clintons information, access, control and power are commodities to profit from, not responsibilities to dutifully use for the betterment of the nation.


25 posted on 10/21/2016 10:45:30 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: Liz; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; TWhiteBear; WildHighlander57; Velveeta; ...
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Check out # 20 .

Thanks, Liz.

26 posted on 10/21/2016 11:33:33 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT; Liz; All

Thanks. BTTT!


27 posted on 10/22/2016 12:05:57 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: bobsunshine

Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!!!


28 posted on 10/22/2016 2:21:50 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Liz

Added link to here followed by your research at the archive:

Wikileaks tweets 550 conflicts of interest of the Clinton Foundation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3483029/posts?page=90


29 posted on 10/22/2016 5:14:26 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Hillary's Trickle Up policy: take bribes, sell sleazy pardons, water down AIDS medicine.)
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To: bobsunshine

She will power through

She is the Borg, all powerful, omnipresent


30 posted on 10/22/2016 5:17:02 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hilary is an Ameriphobe)
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To: bobsunshine

That’s gotta be a hang’n offense


31 posted on 12/15/2016 11:27:36 AM PST by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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