More than 1,200 Clinton emails now deemed classified

More than 1,200 emails from Hillary Clinton's private server during her time at the State Department have now been deemed classified, after the agency publicly released its eighth batch of the messages late Thursday. The agency released roughly 5,500 more pages of emails from the private email account that Clinton exclusively used during her four years at Foggy Bottom, with an additional 275 messages now upgraded to classified, bringing the total number of retroactively classified emails that moved through Clinton's unsecured server to 1,274.

While most of those were elevated to the "confidential" level, according to a State Department official, two in the most recent batch were upgraded to the "Secret" level, a more sensitive classification for issues that affect national security. Clinton, after the scandal about her use of private email broke in March, initially said that there was no classified material on her email account. She has since stressed that she did not send any classified information and that no messages she sent or received were marked classified at the time. The State Department also said on Thursday that it fell short of its court-ordered goal of releasing 43,000 pages of the trove by the end of the year.

Anyone else in who had done this would have had, at the very least, their security revoked (probably lifetime revocation).

The states have the authority to impose a lifetime revocation of the right to have electors pledged to vote for - anyone, for any reason:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress
With that plenary power, a state legislature could if it wished name the electors directly without even conducting a presidential election. Certainly a state legislature could enact a civil cause of action whereby any opponent could sue to prevent a candidate from being on the ballot for specified causes.
The trouble with making security violations such a cause is that the sitting POTUS controls any such determination. But of course the people of the state have no such limitation; they can throw the bum out.
Ideally Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the purple states generally would pass a law enforcing

Article 1 Section 9: No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state
The honoraria paid by foreign governments to WJC, and the contributions by foreign governments to the Clinton Foundation, are thinly veiled payments to HRC. But "of any kind whatever" implies that money laundering should be ignored. Even if the Clinton Foundation were to cure Alzheimers and all the funds were certifiably legitimately charitable, acceptance of foreign government money by an organization of which HRC was a principal while HRC was working on the federal dime was strictly out of bounds (absent a congressional act authorizing it).
The purple states could pass a law against putting a violator of the anticorruption stricture above on the ballot - and that would end HRC's presidential hopes immediately. It would not require action by more than a handful of states to accomplish this.

I remember the first day of the Communications Security Course when they told us how many Soldiers were in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Ft. Leavenworth for improperly handling classified material.

But they were just American Soldiers. Hillary is our self-appointed Queen.

Hillary is a lying, thieving, killing, dirty little snot.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.