Posted on 08/16/2015 7:36:57 PM PDT by jazusamo
When State Department officials first discovered that Hillary Rodham Clinton’s personal email account contained classified information, they did not seize the thumb drive containing her digitally archived inbox but rather provided her attorney a special safe to secure the device, according to interviews and documents.
The move allowed Mrs. Clinton’s attorney to keep the device for several additional weeks while State officials reviewed paper copies of the emails for possible classified data. Officials were unconcerned that the thumb drive remained out of their possession because preservation orders from courts and Congress would ensure that her attorney would not destroy the evidence. The digital archive was turned over to the FBI for examination this month.
Throughout the review process, career State officials who normally handle the release of data under the Freedom of Information Act ran into disagreements with attorneys about which information in the emails was classified, The Washington Times has learned.
The disagreements are part of a complex, and at times tense, process in which career lawyers and career FOIA officials, along with a dozen intelligence review analysts from different agencies, are trying to identify and protect intelligence information contained in Mrs. Clinton’s personal email account. State and FOIA lawyers normally work together on such requests, but this case has heightened tensions given Mrs. Clinton’s status as the Democratic presidential front-runner.
The ongoing process has already flagged 60 of Mrs. Clinton’s personal emails as containing classified information at the “confidential” or “secret” level, although a debate is raging over additional emails that the intelligence community and career State officials believe contain more sensitive top-secret data, officials confirmed.
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Methinks Obammy standing his ground and ain’t gonna rescue the old hag. The body language there is telling, IMO.
Yes it was. This bit about the safe is BS coverup. The facility (lawyers offices) wasn’t cleared to hold the safe, the room wasn’t, nor was he authorized to even open it if the first two hurdles were met.
I think if I take a lie detector test and they ask me if I know of any breaches, unauthorized transfers of classified, instances of mishandling, etc., I’m gonna say “YES!” and then say “Hillary”.
Any one of us accused of improprieties would have had computers and files (both hard copy and electronic) seized immediately instead of being given a virtual eternity to wipe incriminating information or correspondence.
“Methinks Obammy standing his ground and ain’t gonna rescue the old hag. The body language there is telling, IMO.”
If so, it’s the first time he’s “stood his ground” on ANYTHING! Except maybe in front of Reggie...
I think it was a mistake for the two-d!ck billy goat to bring in Vernon Jordan (they used to “talk-p@ssy” together, you know) into a golf game with Obama. None of that is on Hussein’s radar.
Clinton looks old and weak and powerless. His wife is about as vulnerable as they come now, and all it takes is one word from Obama to Lynch and that Beast’s ass is total grass. You can bet Obama holds the cards on them now, and he was standing like it, IMO.
“Bubba was pi**ed about something on the golf course today.”
Yeah, BJ doesn’t look happy at all. Nor well. I guess a diet of cocaine and Viagra actually isn’t too healthy.
Everyone knows there’s no love lost between the Clintons and BO. And I am also guessing that, with his southern upbringing and their several known racist faux pas of the past, it irks him to no end to have Hill’s fate, and by extension his, at the mercy of a “nigra”.
Now you're cookin'............
If she refuses to answer, then off to Gitmo for some waterboarding...........
Ooh. Waterboarding. Let’s relish the possible questions. .....
Well it’s not like she would destroy evidence or something like that.
Yep, she started out as a liar and unethical slob and has only perfected it making it more difficult to prove she is.
Wow!
And yet 47% of all live voters and 99.999% of all dead voters, dogs, cats and comic book characters will still try their worst to make this POS the next president.
You forgot the lawyer's office must also be in a SCIF. I kinda doubt it is.
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