Posted on 07/23/2016 4:33:54 PM PDT by orchestra
(Full title): The Hillary email scandal keeps getting uglier: 3 key aides got messages clearly marked ‘Top Secret’
Emails marked “top secret” were sent from Hillary Clinton’s private server to the email addresses of three of her top aides.
They included 22 such emails in seven email chains sent to Jacob Sullivan, Cheryl Mills, and William Burns, according to State Department documents obtained by Vice News on Friday.
The 22 emails were originally held back from emails received by Vice News in response to a 2015 Freedom of Information Act request it made because releasing them to the public would have caused “exceptionally grave damage” to national security.
“Seven e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received,” FBI Director James Comey said in his report. “These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending e-mails about those matters and receiving e-mails from others about the same matters.”
The emails were not put under a higher level of classification after the fact, according to Comey’s report.
The only thing new in this State Department release is the identity of the people on the email chains.
The FBI had these emails all along and Comey said only three emails had any classification markings - and they weren't top secret.
If this article is true then Comey flat out lied under oath to Congress and he will be prosecuted.
Okay, thanks!
Top secret /special access programs material is highly sensitive info, whether marked as such or not.
The “ —unauthorized disclosure— could cause exceptionally grave damage to national security”.
The release of the —information—, marked accordingly or not.
Here’s the relevant guidelines from the Dept of the Navy:
http://navyadvancement.tpub.com/12018/css/Security-Classification-Levels-693.htm
Top Secret Top Secret is the classification level applied to information whose unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.
Some examples of information that could cause grave damage to national security include—
Armed hostilities against the United States or its allies
A disruption of foreign relations vitally affecting the national security
The compromise of vital national defense plans
The disclosure of complex cryptographic and communications intelligence systems
The disclosure of sensitive intelligence operations
The disclosure of significant scientific or technological developments vital to national security
She can be indicted under the Justice Department of a Trump presidency. There is every reason to.
I hope you are right, but I just don’t see it. Never understood why so many people from the get go were so confident she was going to be indicted. It was no surprise when she skated a few weeks ago
I hope I’m right too. And I hope that enough changes, or changes back, in America so that you do see it.
All true, but the article says the emails were "clearly marked" when they weren't.
“More precisely, it [free press clause of first amendment] was to prevent the government from shutting down the press, but it does not prevent the government from co-opting the press.
Really? That would surprise me, since co-opting necessarily involves lack of independence, and therefore lack of freedom.
I’ll have to go read it....
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