Saturday, January 30, 2016

LAST NIGHT'S STATE DEPARTMENT EMAIL DUMP: The Most Damning for Hillary Yet

Hey, remember all of that cool media outcry over Valerie Plame?

On the heels of yesterday’s bombshell that Hillary Clinton’s secret email server contained nearly two-dozen emails with ‘TOP SECRET’ information, the State Department released its most heavily classified batch of emails to date. A few key points about last night’s dump:

• Of the roughly 900 emails released, 243 were classified, bringing the total number of emails containing classified information to 1,583.

• Of the 243 classified emails, 11 were classified as SECERT, more than double the number from all of the previous releases combined.

• Of the 243 classified emails, 9 were classified for containing information related to “intelligence activities (including covert action), intelligence sources or methods, or cryptology.”

• Of the 243 classified emails, 128 were classified for containing “foreign government information,” which is considered “ born classified” and the “most important category of national security information” State Department officials encounter.

With a classification rate of nearly 27 percent, this was the most highly classified batch of emails yet, despite the fact the State Department only produced 10 percent of the emails it was required to under court order. And given the State Department’s claim that many of the emails they withheld were still being reviewed by other agencies as well as the steep increase in the number of emails classified as ‘SECRET,’ it appears Hillary Clinton’s email woes are only going to get worse. Indeed, many redactions in last night’s production had to do with information from several intelligence agencies including the CIA. No wonder Clinton’s friends in the State Department are trying to delay further releases until she’s cleared the early nominating contests.

Here are some of the most eye-popping emails from last night’s release below, which include classified conversations about embassy security in Egypt and a memo classified as ‘SECRET’ from John Kerry:

On Her Private Email Server, Clinton Had A Classified Conversation Involving Specific Security Concerns Relating To The U.S. Embassy In Egypt.

An Email Forwarded To Clinton By Cheryl Mills Contained Information That Was Classified Because It Was About “CIA PERS/ORG.”

In 2011, Then-Senator John Kerry Emailed Clinton From His iPad Information That Is Now Classified At The Level Of “Secret.”

The evidence is clear. Now, where are the indictments?

Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.
 

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

One of the biggest practical problems for Boomers is email because it is electronic, easy to make assumptions about, and many times it is hard to read all the way through. And forget about thumbing responses on a Blackberry, gimme a break! I forgive Hillary these transgressions, they are easily made. It's just communication, words we ascribe meaning to but in the end it is all in a practical way irrelevant. The hard things matter, life, death and taxes. Hell, if the fbi can ambush Finnicum without consequences they can overlook this political football because that white life doesn't matter.

Brent said...

Classified networks are not connected to the internet. To pass this stuff around, it has to be transcribed from a secure system to an insecure system, or copied via media, such as a thumb drive. It wasn't an accident, but it was a felony, flow which people should be imprisoned.

Brent said...

Classified networks are not connected to the internet. To pass this stuff around, it has to be transcribed from a secure system to an insecure system, or copied via media, such as a thumb drive. It wasn't an accident, but it was a felony, flow which people should be imprisoned.

Doom said...

Damaging? Doesn't something have to do or cause damage to be considered damaging? Just asking. Yeah, no. Damaging is ending a political life, going to jail, being impoverished, exiled, or even shamed enough to keep her mug out of the way of cameras. The GOP is doing no better than anyone else. They won't push laws because when they break them, as politicians, they don't want to face the consequences either.

Bryce said...

Anonymous said:

"It's just communication, words we ascribe meaning to but in the end it is all in a practical way irrelevant."

Sure, the lives of the undercover agents are irrelevant. The secret methods we use to get information about enemy plans and actions are irrelevant. Carelessness about security is irrelevant. Lying to your employers (the public) about your crimes is irrelevant.

Can't we just move along. "At this point, what difference does it make".