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Posted on 01/20/2016 5:39:16 AM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz
Hillary Clinton’s top campaign spokesman believes a vast right-wing conspiracy of sorts is behind Tuesday’s explosive report about the discovery of emails on the former secretary of state’s server that are classified at levels higher than previously known.
According to NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Brian Fallon, Clinton’s communications director, believes that the Intelligence Community’s inspector general, I. Charles McCullough III, is “selectively†leaking information in coordination with Republicans.
Mitchell did not provide insight into whether the flack produced evidence to back up his hypothesis that Republicans are in cahoots with McCullough. The accusation is a throwback to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s complaints that a cabal of conservatives were involved in a “vast right-wing conspiracy†to take them down.
As Fox News reported on Tuesday, McCullough sent a letter last week to the chairmen of the Senate Intelligence and Foreign Relations Committees — as well as to the heads of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the State Department’s inspector general — noting that his investigators had discovered “several dozen emails containing classified information determined by the IC element to be at the CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET and TOP SECRET/SAP information.â€
“SAP†refers to “special access programs†which can be created only by the heads of certain federal agencies when “the vulnerability of, or threat to, specific information is exceptional.†SAP is also created when “the number of persons who ordinarily will have access will be reasonably small and commensurate with the objective of providing enhanced protection for the information involved.â€
The emails containing the SAP information are separate from the two emails containing “top secret†information that McCullough’s agency discovered on Clinton’s server in July. That finding touched off an FBI investigation and led to the seizure of Clinton’s server. Clinton’s team and the State Department disputed McCullough’s finding. But Fox reported last month that intelligence officials had reaffirmed their determination that the emails did indeed contain “top secret†information when they were created.
According to NBC News, an intelligence source said that the new information found on Clinton’s server was so sensitive that McCullough and some of his aides had to receive additional clearance before viewing it.
In his defense of Clinton, Fallon fell back on the explanation his boss began using after “top secret†emails were found on her server last year — that the classified information the emails contained was not “marked†as such when she sent or received it.
Before that, Clinton and her team had claimed, simply, that she did not send or receive classified information on her personal email account.
While Clinton’s “marked†email defense likely puts many of her supporters at ease, a document she signed when she started at the State Department in Jan. 2009 undermines her position.
Signers of that document — the Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement, or SF-312 — acknowledge that “classified information is marked or unmarked classified information, including oral communications.â€
The mishandling of SAP is what led to the downfall of former CIA director Gen. David Petraeus. Petraeus resigned from the agency in 2012 after he was found to have provided classified information to his biographer and mistress, Paula Broadwell. He was put on probation and fined last year. It was also reported this week that Defense Sec. Ash Carter is considering retroactively demoting Petraeus to a three-star general.
Many observers have wondered why Petraeus was prosecuted for mishandling classified information while Clinton has so far gone unscathed.
Last gasps
(and yes, Hillary, we're still here!)
So... nevermind if she committed these treeasonous acts...
THOSE EVIL GOP LEAKED IT
There is a major difference between colluding and coordinating with the GOP RNC political arm and cooperating with Republicans who have the MAJORITY in both the House and Senate that are conducting official Congressional business. Suck it up Clinton. I thought you said non of that was classified anyway. If so, why are these emails so “damning?” You effing witch.
Rush was absolutely correct :
They still think its the 1990’s.
It don’t work anymore.
shooting the messenger, the last desperate act of what usually turns out to be a guilty party.
I click to my morning “newspaper’, Free Republic, and the very first thing I see is “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.”
Now I have to wipe the coffee off the desk and hope none get inside the keyboard.
Other problem is I can’t stop laughing.
” top campaign spokesman believes a vast right-wing conspiracy of sorts is behind”...
So it was a VRWC that made Hillary illegally have the server to begin with?
The very existence and use of that server was illegal.
Her spokesbot must be either cleverbot or eviebot.
That’s all she’s got...n matter what depravity, no matter what criminal activity, no matter what lies she perpetrates or is involved in...it’s always some Right Wing Conspiracy and not her.
This woman should, by all rights, be spending the rest of life in a Federal Penitentiary.
Another new revelations just in the last 24 hours.
- More emails (not the ones spoken of here) showing that she knew an attack was planned against Benghazi before it happened and that the Military was prepared to stop it...had plans in place...but the State Department never sent them the okay. We know what happened then, and the lie about the video.
It server right!
Yes, and the GOP also hypnotized the young Hillary to make her into a commie loving scumbag.
Also, I wonder if it was the Republicans, and not her, who helped her friend and server guru lose his official emails from when she was SoS?
National Security is not some political squabble.
Peoples lives have been put in danger.
Hillary Clinton knowingly and willfully ignored security regulations.
That is espionage.
People have been hung for committing espionage against this country.
If she is going to continue to act like a dirty little snot on this, then she needs to be treated like a dirty little snot. Give her the max sentence.
She has a lot of accomplices and they should be held accountable, too.
VRWC FTW YFB
-PJ
Exactly right on the accomplices, this crap doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
That Manchurian Candidate needs to spend a few years in a Federal penitentiary. I wonder how many women are in Federal Pens?
Ahh, Mrs Clinton, what difference does it make .... you're still going to prison.
Right out of the Clinton playbook and the No. 1 reason I hated Bill Clinton when he was POTUS.
Break the law? Don’t take responsibility. Shoot the messenger. Blame Republicans. Rinse. Repeat.
Hillary belongs in jail, not the White House.
was there an e mail from the labor department showing hoe the unemployment numbers are doctored?
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