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Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found
An anonymous reader writes: Hillary Clinton's lawyer has surrendered three thumb drives with copies of emails from her server to the Justice Department, which is also where the controversial Clinton personal email server is destined as well. The FBI determined that Clinton's lawyer could no longer retain the thumb drives after two emails from a small sample were found to contain information classified as "Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information," which would also taint the server. There is no evidence that encryption was used to protect the emails. From the limited reviews to date, Secretary Clinton and her aides exchanged emails containing classified information with at least six people with private email addresses. So far four of Clinton's top aides have turned over emails to the State Department, and there are demands that six more do so. The State Department's inspector general has stated that his office is reviewing "the use of personal communications hardware and software by five secretaries of state and their immediate staffs." Current U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has stated, "it is very likely" that China and Russia are reading his emails.
That's bullshit too. Do you think a case officer's notes of a meeting with an agent aren't classified just because the case officer doesn't carry around a big red "CLASSIFIED" stamp? Information is classified based on the information and source, not the markings. Classified information not so marked isn't unclassified information, it's misidentified information and anyone with a security classification is trained to recognize and address that issue.
You'll notice that they handed over flash drives with copies, not the original storage. Because the remapped sectors on the original storage probably contains the evidence the prosecutor is looking for.
But that's OK - Hillary is a bona fide member of the protected spook/bankster class; she need not fear consequences, only maintain the charade well enough for the narrative to continue.
My God, it's Full of Source!
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She didn't want to carry around a second device because it's just so inconvenient. Literally her excuse. Just pathetic.
What's even scarier is that this was apparently the standard deal for all her predecessors. Still, at least they might be able to claim some degree of ignorance - but I think it's safe to say that by 2008 anyone with half a clue could have explained what a colossally stupid idea it was, especially given that the private email servers for both the Obama and McCain campaigns had already been hacked prior to the election:
http://www.theguardian.com/glo...
It is ABSOLUTELY against federal records law for a civil servant to carry on federal business over a non-federal system. Just business, not classified business, or top secret business, ANY business.
All e-mails containing governmental decisions need to be maintained and controlled by the government entity responsible for them.
I'm not a Republican and frankly I thought they were just muckraking till now, however if this information is correct then she is likely guilty of violating 18 U.S. Code 798 - Disclosure of classified information (if not other laws and oaths as well) and should be tried and punished appropriately. Since she's one of the elite it will likely get swept under the rug instead.
Before or after they were retro-actively declared classified.....
That's not how it works. You are expected/required to be able to recognize classified information that is not marked as such and mark it yourself.
Having served as a Security Manager in the United States Navy, I can with clarity and proper knowledge clearly state that when creating any document, the drafter of the document is responsible for taking appropriate steps to properly classify said document. There is no excuse for not knowing because to gain assess to classified information, you must acknowlede in writing after completing training that you are aware of the above. There is no excuse. Anyone else would already be in jail.
Well, SORT of true. He's been abusing Presidential Memorandums ...which carry basically the same weight, but allow him to say "I'm not using as many EO's as the previous guys have.".
Add the memos and the EO's together...and that changes the number a bit.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Sounds like you read "How to Lie with Statistics", since the sheer number of EO's means nothing compared with the contents.
When the next president has "only" 33 but they are packed with hated directives, I'm sure you will be similarly sanguine...
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The information was not deemed classified until long after the emails were sent.
False on the face of. Enough so that there's no explanation for you saying that other than you know you're deliberately lying.
The inspectors looked at a tiny sample of the mail she cherry-picked, and in just a few dozen, found material that was already graded "Top Secret," and would have been obviously such to anyone with any experience - let alone the person who is the nation's top appointed diplomat and the executive in charge of all of our foreign affairs, someone who is briefed daily on highly sensitive material. We're talking about emails with satellite imagery, etc. Your "retroactive" meme is the worst sort of BS because even you know it's not true, but you're repeating it anyway.
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