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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhich Hillary subordinate will she throw under the Email Bus
Or why the Email Investigation isnt going away
The surrogates love parroting Hillarys defense of sending/receiving Top Secret Information in her emails. Even thou Hillary herself has walked back her defense in a fashion reminiscent of Bills I did not have sexual relations with that woman
QUESTION: Were you ever were you ever specifically briefed on the security implications of using using your own email server and using your personal address to email with the president?
CLINTON: I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. So Im certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.
CLINTON: I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. So Im certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.
FIRST Notice she did not answer the question. Then she more carefully chose her words in her walk-back
CLINTON: The State Department has confirmed that I did not send nor receive material marked classified or send material marked classified, she said a moment later.
I am repeating the facts and the facts are I did not send nor did I receive material marked classified.
I am repeating the facts and the facts are I did not send nor did I receive material marked classified.
Notice the statement was walked back from Classified Materials to Emails Marked Classified. Why this tiny change of statement is important
Lets discuss
US Capabilities of Tracking Hard Currency
The Range and Speed of Surface to Air Missiles
The Testing and Means of Destruction of US Spy Satellites
Some of these topics may seem entirely obscure and meaningless here, yet I can assure you this thread just set off alarms at the NSA and CIA. Were I to continue discussing any of the above I would certainly expect a knock on the door and most likely my laptop well be hacked and probed within moments of posting this thread.
So when an email says They confirmed that XYZ .. happened in Blah Blah Country you have just discussed US Capabilities on a Non-Secure channel. It doesnt matter that you didnt retransmit the original cable or email you just gave up one of Americas most coveted and closest guarded secrets.
We all here at DU understood the significance of the disclosure of Joe Wilsons wife and the damage done to the United States non-proliferation efforts. We all understood the cost was the destruction of a covert operation many years in the making, involving human assets whose cover had been blown and could never be used again. An operation costing many millions of dollars annually to maintain. We all understood going forward in our efforts to ensure the United States would not be attacked by a terrorist group through the use of a Nuclear Device or Dirty Bomb had suffered in measurably.
We all understood that.
But when we discuss what we know, we are really discussing HOW we acquire information and THAT is the Top Secret in Secret Information. Apparatuses costing in the $Billions and some of the most closely guarded secrets of America and the Intelligence Community have just been compromised.
And if you hold a Clearance above "Classified" you are painfully made aware of these policies on a daily basis.
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The above "Hypothetical Conversations" are for conversational purposes only. I can neither confirm nor deny US capabilities nor have knowledge any such capabilities
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Which Hillary subordinate will she throw under the Email Bus (Original Post)
FreakinDJ
Apr 2016
OP
Wasn't there an email when she instructed someone to send classified material unmarked?
virtualobserver
Apr 2016
#4
The bigger question is will her aides willingly fall on a sword for her nt
riderinthestorm
Apr 2016
#8
PonyUp
(1,680 posts)1. All of them if she has to.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)3. Being Marked Classified or not does not releive you of the law
Simply discussing in Non-Secure fashion is a Felony ...
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)4. Wasn't there an email when she instructed someone to send classified material unmarked?
That would seem to be cut and dried.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)6. Will that implecated Hillary directly
better be some good lawyers
FarPoint
(12,466 posts)2. Your beating a dead horse issue.
That said, Hillary will be our Democratic Nominee....
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)5. Shouldn't it be "throw"?? nt
yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)7. great post
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)8. The bigger question is will her aides willingly fall on a sword for her nt
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)9. That's a given - but will it work is the question
Remember Hillary herself wrote most of the emails that have now been classified Top Secret and too sensitive to release