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FreakinDJ

(17,644 posts)
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 09:03 AM Apr 2016

Which Hillary subordinate will she throw under the Email Bus

Or why the Email Investigation isn’t going away

The surrogates love parroting Hillary’s defense of sending/receiving Top Secret Information in her emails. Even thou Hillary herself has walked back her defense in a fashion reminiscent of Bill’s “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 I’m 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.”



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 doesn’t matter that you didn’t retransmit the original cable or email – you just gave up one of America’s most coveted and closest guarded secrets.

We all here at DU understood the significance of the disclosure of Joe Wilson’s 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.


on edit ...

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
All of them if she has to. PonyUp Apr 2016 #1
Being Marked Classified or not does not releive you of the law FreakinDJ Apr 2016 #3
Wasn't there an email when she instructed someone to send classified material unmarked? virtualobserver Apr 2016 #4
Will that implecated Hillary directly FreakinDJ Apr 2016 #6
Your beating a dead horse issue. FarPoint Apr 2016 #2
Shouldn't it be "throw"?? nt COLGATE4 Apr 2016 #5
great post yourpaljoey Apr 2016 #7
The bigger question is will her aides willingly fall on a sword for her nt riderinthestorm Apr 2016 #8
That's a given - but will it work is the question FreakinDJ Apr 2016 #9
 

FreakinDJ

(17,644 posts)
3. Being Marked Classified or not does not releive you of the law
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 09:12 AM
Apr 2016

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?
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 09:16 AM
Apr 2016

That would seem to be cut and dried.

 

FreakinDJ

(17,644 posts)
9. That's a given - but will it work is the question
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 10:36 AM
Apr 2016

Remember Hillary herself wrote most of the emails that have now been classified Top Secret and too sensitive to release

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