CIA Review: Hillary Emails Had “Top Secret” Information
Yeah, but what would they know about it? NYT:
WASHINGTON — A special intelligence review of two emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account — including one about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program — has endorsed a finding by the inspector general for the intelligence agencies that the emails contained highly classified information when Mrs. Clinton received them, senior intelligence officials said.
Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign and the State Department disputed the inspector general’s finding last month and questioned whether the emails had been overclassified by an arbitrary process. But the special review — by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — concluded that the emails were “Top Secret,” the highest classification of government intelligence, when they were sent to Mrs. Clinton in 2009 and 2011.
One could almost get the impression that she’s lying.
Ding.
Patterico (3cc0c1) — 9/8/2015 @ 7:49 amOld news really.
Rodney King's Spirit (ab8c0d) — 9/8/2015 @ 8:01 amkinda hard* to be SecState, even a lousy one like her, and NOT receive with classified info…
any of us here who had handled classified materials the way she did would already have been arrested, just on what we know so far, and would be desperately negotiating a plea deal, and that’s without getting into the whole destruction of government records and obstruction of justice thing.
(*as in “impossible”)
redc1c4 (2b3c9e) — 9/8/2015 @ 8:37 amover/under on the “well, WE don’t agree with the classification…” defense being successful in court?
assuming, of course, that she actually get’s indicted for her crimes, let alone goes to trial…
redc1c4 (2b3c9e) — 9/8/2015 @ 8:44 amEven the NY Times is dropping her. She is in deep trouble,
The disaster that is Obama’s foreign policy, and therefore hers, is going to get a lot more apparent in the next year. I am going to Britain tomorrow and have cancelled a trip to Greece to avoid the chaos going on there.
In 2008, Obama said that genocide was not a good enough reason to keep troops in Iraq. We were warned.
The prospective size of the migrant stream to Europe, including economic migrants as well as war refugees from Africa, probably exceeds 100 million, or two orders of magnitude larger than the already very large number that Europe has agreed to accept.
Europe will have scenes of horror on its border: barbed wire, tear gas, rubber bullets, malnutrition and epidemic disease in tent camps swollen by millions of desperate people. It will also have acts of terrorism by refugees already inside its borders protesting Europe’s future refusal to accept more.
I think this may well be my last trip to Europe although I have in past years gone every year at least once.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 9/8/2015 @ 8:47 amThat’s what I said from day one, redc1c4. There is no way a person can be SecState without handling secret and top secret emails and documents. If she used her own server she is guilty of sedition because it had to be a deliberate breach of protocol opening the secrets of our nation to our enemies. She should be hanged. Publicly.
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie (f4eb27) — 9/8/2015 @ 8:51 amMy wife’s niece lives in Amsterdam, Mike K and she’s been emailing us about problems there too. Seems all those devout moslems love them some hash and some blond girls. Must be in the Koran. Problem is they also like to steal, mug, rape and beat women. Guess that’s in the religion of peace’s play book too.
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie (f4eb27) — 9/8/2015 @ 8:59 amOne could almost get the impression that she’s lying.
Yet you actually can say that in some ways she’s better than Donald Trump?!
Pfft.
Mark (dc566c) — 9/8/2015 @ 10:22 amIs it permitted to ask if foreign powers made contributions to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for access to Hillary’s conveniently vulnerable server? It’s more than a little naive to assume that someone as cooked, greedy, and secretive as Hillary would pass up an opportunity to betray Uncle Sam for cold cash. After all, when she stood by and did nothing but lie when Americans were being slaughtered in Benghazi, what might keep her from selling secrets to the highest bidders?
ropelight (583296) — 9/8/2015 @ 10:38 amGrand Jury. Indict. You don’t hold up an indictment on serious charges because the criminal happens to be running a political campaign.
Quite the opposite, really.
mojo (a3d457) — 9/8/2015 @ 10:46 amQ. What do you get when you cross a sleazy politician with a crooked lawyer?
nk (dbc370) — 9/8/2015 @ 11:05 amA. Chelsea.
This s*** just isn’t funny anymore, if it ever was.
Better men and women put their lives on the line to get that information, and better men and women put their lives on the line to keep it.
I don’t know what else there is to say.
Steve57 (3b2e7d) — 9/8/2015 @ 11:17 amHow about: Will that be a size 20 or size 22 orange jump suit, Ms. Clinton?
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie (f4eb27) — 9/8/2015 @ 11:59 amSoS emails are born classified, the way I understand it.
She’s done with money. The only question now is how will Hillary exit the race.
I’m betting a Major Garrett pointed “impertinent” question at the debate causes Hilda to fake a heart attack, Redd Fox style, right at the podium, and they take her out in an ambulance to complete the sorry spectacle.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 9/8/2015 @ 12:02 pmdon’t forget: according to SOP, *any* e-mail containing comments, opinions, quotes, etc from foreign diplomats, politicians & other sources, is classified upon creation and transmission…
there is no way she didn’t *create* classified documents herself, and, if she neglected to label them properly, that’s just another crime each time, not an out from criminal prosecution.
i really need to buy some popcorn, just in case they actually fulfill their duty and prosecute Grandmonster Cankles.
redc1c4 (2b3c9e) — 9/8/2015 @ 12:12 pmNaw. One really gets the impression that the only time that she and the former Sexual-Predator-In-Chief are NOT lying is when they have their mouths closed…. and even THAT is often kinda “iffy”, as one can lie with facial expressions and hand gestures, too.
IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." (3d1b0a) — 9/8/2015 @ 1:00 pmHillary’s an old hand at hiding incrimination information, and getting others to do her dirty work. Here’s an excerpt from a William Safire NY Times, Opinion column from May 4th 1998. It exposes Hillary’s role in putting the squeeze on Susy Hubbell to prevent Webb from putting the finger on Hillary.
ropelight (583296) — 9/8/2015 @ 1:02 pmObama can either call off the intel hounds, or he cannot.
Richard Aubrey (472a6f) — 9/8/2015 @ 2:17 pmIf he can, he’s choosing not to.
If he can’t, who can?
Who should be able to?
I linked a pajamas media piece by Charlie martin, who knows of what he speaks, in these matters
narciso (7c7aed) — 9/8/2015 @ 3:04 pmHow about we make it easy on ourselves, and only get worked up if it can be shown she’s told the truth. About anything.
C. S. P. Schofield (ab2cdc) — 9/8/2015 @ 3:43 pmWell, she does a lot of yoga. Oh.
*** stop throwing stuff at me ***
papertiger (c2d6da) — 9/8/2015 @ 3:50 pmR.I.P. Judy Carne, star of Laugh-In
R.I.P. Martin Milner, star of Adam-12
Icy (941b63) — 9/8/2015 @ 3:52 pmO/T, but related:
askeptic (efcf22) — 9/8/2015 @ 4:18 pmTribune Co. fires Publisher of LAT!
CIA — just another arm of that “vast right wing conspiracy”.
Patrick (ce7fc3) — 9/8/2015 @ 7:15 pmAny of us in any way related to handling information that might be classified is required to take annual training on its handling. That training clearly says that it doesn’t matter if the material SHOULD be classified or not, only that it is. If it is you have to handle it appropriate for its classification. Not for what is later determined to have been its proper classification, but how it is actually classified at the time you handled it. No doing so generally results in loss of security clearance(s), loss of employment, and serious jail time.
In this instance some significant amount (any “highly classified”) of such was mishandled and passed through an email server that was not government authorized (at least properly, or we’d already be having testimony from its ISSO (Information System Security Officer). And we know who “authorized” that server… if that term is appropriate in a server that is clearly outside the authorization rules for a server managing government emails.
And it’s also plain as day that the government records retention regulations were ignored or deliberately circumvented with regards to this server processing government emails for a government official (Secretary of State at that) in the fact already made plain that thousands of emails were deleted without being systematically and properly archived. This topic (email retention) comes up fairly often in the agency I work in. It’s very hard to imagine no one in Hillary’s circle of advisors had no knowledge of these regulations. Considering her past history and her legal background, it’s very hard to accept that Hillary herself was not aware of them.
If she was, as I believe she had to be, she must have deliberately chosen to violate the (although ignorance of the law, as government often tells we plain citizens, is no excuse for violating the law… or the regulations purportedly spawned from the law) regulations. Then the question becomes “why did she feel the need to violate those regulations and why did she think the risk of doing so justified the “rewards” of doing so? That’s where things are apt to get REALLY interesting.
It may be as simple as she does not believe she has to follow any regulations, she is above them. This does fit her past behavior.
Or there might be more to it such as intending to keep some transactions and information exchanges “off the official books” so she could not (she thought) be held accountable for them politically or legally. That would seem to this non lawyer to already enter the realm of legal conspiracy. Doing this so that material known to be from classified sources (and thus itself legally classified) could be passed along to those without proper need to know is, I believe, a felony. But that would probably not be the end, but the means to whatever the end actually was… Influence peddling? Insider trading?
All this from the woman who originated the idea of a Vast Right-wing Conspiracy? Another case of progressives/Democrats/”liberals” projecting their own sins onto their opposition?
Dan S (94f399) — 9/8/2015 @ 9:51 pmMy comment is awaiting moderation. What a joke
Mr. Morley in an African Country (9eb170) — 9/9/2015 @ 9:25 amIt probably has a banned word or too many links. Look at your comment and repost it without any suspicious words.
DRJ (521990) — 9/9/2015 @ 10:08 amI just read your comment to nk. What’s your deal?
DRJ (521990) — 9/9/2015 @ 10:11 am#28 good question, DRJ.
he’s calling for genocide on the “Im sorry” thread…
redc1c4 (589173) — 9/9/2015 @ 10:22 am