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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.
Here's hoping she's charged and impeached before she's even elected.
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Before or after they were retro-actively declared classified.....
Really? What selection of the news am I paying attention to that you aren't (or vice versa)?
CNN (not exactly a right wing outlet) quotes the Office of Inspector General spokesperson who said: the emails were “were classified when they were sent and are classified now.”
Did you know that when you send an email to your lawyer, you don't actually have to put "ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVLEGE" in the subject or body? The privilege exists regardless of markings on the communication.
Just because a document which was not treated as classified by someone does not mean that it is in fact no longer classified or be treated as such. Flags help identify such things, but it is ultimately up to the sender & receiver to use their judgement as to how to handle it.
The fact of the matter is Hillary repeatedly exhibited poor judgement with regards to her private email server, and in a just world will see her with a criminal conviction. Alas we do not live in that world.
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