Posted on 01/20/2016 9:32:12 AM PST by rktman
Just when we were thinking it couldn't get much worse with Hillary's email scandal, an inspector general's unclassified letter to lawmakers tells us the former secretary of state was keeping the most classified of all intelligence material -- beyond "top secret" -- on her homebrew server.
Fox News exclusively obtained the unclassified letter, sent Jan. 14 from Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III. It laid out the findings of a recent comprehensive review by intelligence agencies that identified "several dozen" additional classified emails -- including specific intelligence known as "special access programs" (SAP).
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The Democrats will have an avowed Socialist/Communist for its nominee.
If you already have, thank you.
You probably know this, and use of "treason" was hyperbole (which hyperbole I endorse). But technically, until she gives that material to a declared enemy, it isn't treason.
I like your way of thinking !
He beat her down once and he will do it again.
Her Secret Service detail might help him put her in chains.
There certainly are classifications beyond Classified. If you were read into a program, that means you were in the highest category, what laymen call “Eyes Only”, but pros call SCI (compartmentalized Top Secret) Clearance. Did you get an SSBI?
The levels of classification are determined by the amount of damage to national security would be caused by the loss of the material. Material that would cause grave damage, loss of personnel, or economic harm is classified as Top Secret. The Secret classification goes to material that could cause serious damage to security. Confidential is the lowest but still poses security concerns. The USAF officer who gave you that bullshiite explanation was a moron and has no business explaining anything pertaining to security classifications.
Top Secret is high......but much higher if “a need to know” is added.(only a very select few can have access.)
Never heard of being read into a program - we were just given (1966) million dollar FBI background checks - now days that’s done with a phone call to people you list as contacrts - whoever they are does not matter, only the positive response - all so I hear.
Classification was who had access if they needed it, by designation -eyes only -elint -3 levels of TS code word, and so on.
Oh yes they do - or did up until Clinton became President and changed everything to make getting a clearance far easier, cheaper, and faster - “Say ‘hello’ Mr Snowden!”
“Actually it would be kind of fun to see Trump do just that at their first debate.”
It would be but don’t count on it. He will be dancing with Madame President at her Inagurual Ball. After all he thinks she is terrific and has said so many times.
Wasn’t your clearance TS-CW?
And they are just the beginning ... for beginners :)
Spent 20 years in the intel business before returning to higher ed eight years ago.
Sounds like you got a somewhat misleading definition from your SSO.
Levels of classification reflect the sensitivity of the material and the damage it would cause to national security if that information was revealed. In that sense, there is a discernible difference between the disclosure of “confidential” data, versus something classified at the Top Secret/SCI level.
Your clearance (and need to know) determines your access to the vast majority of classified information. The amount of material covered by Special Access Programs (SAP) remains relatively small, by definition. If most classified was covered by various SAPs, the mechanics of reading people into the program and debriefing them would be a massive headache, to say the least.
That’s why SAPs are typically reserved for our most sensitive collection efforts—known by a relatively small number of people, and with the material/databases segregated from the vast “haul” of intel information. Many SAPs are actually “housed” in a separate vault, inside a Sensitive Compartmented Intelligence Facility (SCIF).
Maybe.
6994 SS VN and 6990 SS Kadena
President Ankle Bracelet bump.
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