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Title: Criminal Inquiry Is Sought in Clinton Email Account
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CNBC
URL Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/23/crim ... ary-clintons-use-of-email.html
Published: Jul 24, 2015
Author: Michael S. Schmidt and Matt Apuzzo
Post Date: 2015-07-24 13:54:29 by redleghunter
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WASHINGTON — Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether sensitive government information was mishandled in connection with the personal email account Hillary Rodham Clinton used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday. The request follows an assessment in a June 29 memo by the inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence agencies that Mrs. Clinton's private account contained "hundreds of potentially classified emails." The memo was written to Patrick F. Kennedy, the under secretary of state for management. It is not clear if any of the information in the emails was marked as classified by the State Department when Mrs. Clinton sent or received them. But since her use of a private email account for official State Department business was revealed in March, she has repeatedly said that she had no classified information on the account. The initial revelation has been an issue in the early stages of her presidential campaign. Poster Comment: 
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#3. To: redleghunter (#0)
Right. The sender sent information which was not yet officially classified. Hillary Clinton received information which had not yet been officially classified. As head of the State Department, did she have a duty to recognize the intelligence reports as highly classified and classify them, and give them the required protection? As the information was clearly compromised, should it have been so reported? It would not seem to help if Sidney Blumenthal were to be considered to have acted in some official State Department capacity and to have sufficient clearance and access authorization. It would only make him responsible to have protected it in the first place. Hillary's server clearly contained intelligence reports with Top Secret information. The Agency head is responsible for the protection of classified information within her agency.
Probably not Top Secret. That is a VERY controlled medium usually requiring two person control. Secret? Sure I can see that. Most day to day work for her was no doubt at the secret level.
The intelligence reports naming officials of a foreign government and quoting them at a meeting of the same day, or very recent time, would clearly qualify for a Top Secret classification. TS was coming across online encrypted (JASON) military communications circuits 30 to 40 years ago. The State stuff has been handled on separate circuitry as denoted by its 82B1 formatting, which predates AUTODIN. That format was used by the military in the 60s before AUTODIN. Everybody in the Comm Center was cleared Top Secret. The closer handling occurred after it was delivered by the comms personnel. Everything had to have a clear classification designation before initial transmission on the comms circuits. Hillary bypassed the official comms circuits, but she could not bypass the requirement to properly classify the material. Her lunch schedule would have been SECRET. http://www.rt.com/usa/complete-emails-guccifer-clinton-554/ Check out the Guccifer hacked email from Sidney Blumenthal's account that was going to Hillary. This stuff relates highly sensitive intel that was less than 24 hours old. See the one from February 16, 2013 February 16, 2013 For: Hillary SOURCE: Sources with direct access to Libyan national Government, as well as the highest levels of European Governments, and Western Intelligence and security services. 1. As of February 15, 2013 Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika instructed the commanders of the Algerian external intelligence service (Direction Générale de la Sécurité - DGSE) to provide Libyan intelligence chief, General Salim Hassi, with selected portions of the information obtained in the investigation of the terrorist attack on the facility at In Amenas. The President cautioned the DGSE commanders to manage the information being passed with care, keeping in mind that he is not convinced the new General National Council (GNC) government of Libya will survive through 2013. He also warned them to void passing any information that might be interpreted to indicate that the Algerian government had not been properly prepared for the attack. Bouteflika added that they should move forward with this exchange as quickly as possible, since Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan was calling him every day to push for greater cooperation, particularly regarding contacts between the Mokhtar Belmokhtar (MBM) terrorist groups and groups and individuals in Libya. [snip] It goes on for several pages more, with a total of six similar paragraphs. Here we have the President of Algeria sharing intel with the Libyan intel chief, and linking in the Libyan Prime Minister, and the events reported are less than 24 hours old. This sort of compromise could threaten the life of the extremely sensitive source. The extremely sensitive sources, and the timing and subject matter, justify a TS classification.
Basically they were creating TS information without properly classifying. Amazing.
#18. To: redleghunter (#16)
Fox Report, 25 Jul 2015, at 7:57 p.m. EDT, Hillary Clinton speaking: And Bill did not have sex with that woman. They engaged in non-sex. I was not classified, but it should have been, and she is the one who should have classified it. The correct question is why she did not classify it after she received it, and why she retained it on her non-secure server. With Hillary's excruciating parsing, she is legally correct. She neither sent nor received any information that was classified when it was sent or received. Before Hillary saw it, it is not known to have been in the possession of anyone with authority and responsibility to classify it. Technically, it is not classified until a person with authorization assigns it a classification. Nobody is known to have classified the information before Hillary sent it. But before Hillary sent it, she was the original classifying authority who had the authority and the responsibility to have classified it. It only remained technically unclassified because of her utter security failure to properly handle information for which she had a duty to protect. She kept it on a non-secure personal server long after she had sent it onward. Presumably, information she forwarded was classified at the State Department. During almost all the time that she kept said information on her non-secure server, it was officially classified. Of the load of edited junk she has recently turned over, IG tested a random sample of 40 emails and found 4 with information that is still classified.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2189751/hillary-clinton-emails-7-31-15.pdf The new batch of emails can be viewed or downloaded as one big PDF at the link. Just paging through it shows that there is one redaction after another. I would guess there are over a thousand redactions in 1,618 pages. It is also about 1,000 emails short of satisfying the court order. Hillary wants to slow walk it so she can testify to Congress while some of it has yet to be released. Congress could delay the hearing until 2016. http://www.foiadvocates.com/exemptions.html 6. Documents which are "personnel and medical and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy." 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(6).
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestIt is not clear if any of the information in the emails was marked as classified by the State Department when Mrs. Clinton sent or received them.
#7. To: nolu chan (#3)
#14. To: redleghunter (#7)
Probably not Top Secret. That is a VERY controlled medium usually requiring two person control.
CONFIDENTIAL
From: Sid
Re: Algeria/Libya/Terrorism
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION COMES FROM EXTREMELY SENSITIVE SOURCES AND SHOULD BE HANDLED WITH CARE.
#16. To: nolu chan (#14)
Replies to Comment # 16. “I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material,” Mrs. Clinton told reporters in March. “I’m certainly aware of the classified requirements and did not send classified material.”
I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received.
#111. To: redleghunter (#16)
5. Documents which are "inter-agency or intra-agency memorandum or letters" which would be privileged in civil litigation. 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(5).
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