2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Issue Everyone Is Missing In The Clinton Email Scandal
The Issue Everyone Is Missing In The Clinton Email Scandalby Lauren C. Williams at Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/09/11/3700451/demystifying-classified-material/
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Many of the critiques [of Clinton] show a total ignorance of how document classification works, said Peter Swire, a law and ethics professor at Georgia Tech who was on the White Houses NSA review panel in 2014. It is irrelevant if a piece of information is classified somewhere in government. What is relevant, is whether the recipient knew or should have known it was classified Im not aware of any statement that she received an email on her [personal and unclassified email server] that was marked classified.
The Justice Departments investigation of Clintons private server revealed that 125 emails were retroactively classified by the State Department, at least two of which were labeled top secret. But theres more to the story: How communications become classified is a messy process full of obstacles and room for error.
We live in a world where intelligence comes from many different sources, and one agency treats a piece of news as classified and another treats it as unclassified, Swire said. Its possible for something to be classified in one area of government and that classification status be unknown to everyone else. The problem of whether [Clintons email contents] would have been classified information would have been the same if it were on [the State Departments server].
Its Not A Science
Classification is not an adjective; its a verb. Its something thats done and people are supposed to mark that it has been done, said Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Brennan Center for Justices national security program. Even so, sometimes its not always clear whether information is identical to information that has been marked classified.
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msongs
(67,420 posts)HassleCat
(6,409 posts)The person or agency generating the message was responsible to classify it and mark I with the appropriate warnings. This evidently was not done by our brilliant "intelligence agencies" and they're now going back and saying Clinton should have known they were classified because of content and circumstances. Maybe that's true today, but it was not true when I worked with classified material.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Time to bury that in the graveyard of fake scandles.
In two or three days new one will appear.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Federal Records Act Violation - no teeth in that one. The other is a felony. Get ready for it.
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)WDIM
(1,662 posts)A government of the people should not hide from the people.
What was suppose to be the most transparent administration in history has become the most secret and has made the most refusals under foia.
Besides undercover workers working to infiltrate criminal organizations our government should have no secrets.
Now is the time for honesty and transparency. Withholding the truth is the same as lying.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)She broke the law. WHAT LAW? It's all been explained. DU GOOGLE: 18 USC 793 and EO 13526.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)You are no different. Please, show us the straight scoop.
Hollingsworth
(88 posts)Me, I don't think that is something we want in a President. We all want a thoughtful leader.
murielm99
(30,745 posts)That the laws and rules might change after she left office as SOS? That she should have been clairvoyant?
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Are you disagreeing with her?
murielm99
(30,745 posts)Are you disagreeing with that?