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Clinton Transmitted Classified Information to Her Lawyers
What was their security-clearance level?
What was the legal rationale under which Hillary Clinton quite intentionally shared classified information with her lawyers, including David Kendall, Cheryl Mills, and Heather Samuelson?
As I outlined in last weekend’s column, we know that Clinton’s e-mails were replete with classified information. According to the FBI, the classified e-mails included intelligence graded at the most closely guarded level: eight top-secret e-mails, and seven designated as “special access program” (SAP) information. (While FBI director James Comey’s presentation understandably left this vague, the likelihood is that seven of the eight top-secret e-mails are SAP.) Under President Bill Clinton’s 1995 executive order, top-secret intelligence is information the mishandling of which “could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.” The SAP designation is added when the unauthorized disclosure of intelligence could compromise critical intelligence-gathering methods or imperil the lives of intelligence sources. That is why access to this information is so tightly restricted, and its unauthorized disclosure is routinely prosecuted.
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Original post follows –
Sources: Clinton emails would have been ‘whitelisted’ for Obama BlackBerry
President Obama’s high-security BlackBerry used a special process known as “whitelisting” that only allowed it to take calls and messages from pre-approved contacts, two former senior intelligence officials with knowledge of the set-up told Fox News – pointing to the detail as further proof the White House knew Hillary Clinton’s private account was used for government business.
Well, whitelisting isn’t that special of a process as any IT pro will tell you, but it’s not something the typical user really worries about, relying instead on built in spam filters for email, and caller ID on their phones. I’m pretty careful with email (the number one thing is not clicking on a link from someone you don’t know), and if I don’t recognize the phone number in the display for an incoming call, I don’t answer, and just let it go to voice mail. Being who I am not, I don’t need to have really sophisticated filters/controls on my “communications systems”, whereas the President does need to have that kind of protection/selectivity.
As for who in the White House knew that Clinton had a private server set up from the domain name (clintonemail.com), the President isn’t necessarily one of them, although it is probable he did. I can absolutely guarantee you that he did not set up his BlackBerry contact list, and whoever the IT pro that did set it up quite possibly could have set it up to only show the persons name (and the subject line for email), and not their email address/phone number.
So, the IT department at the WH certainly knew about the clintonemail.com domain, but who else knew is really anybody’s guess. This brings up the following questions though, that if the White House IT department knew about it, did they raise any questions about this unusual arrangement, and if not, why not? Did they in fact raise questions, but were told to not worry about it? Were they, like their counterparts at State, told to shut up and never speak about it again?
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Stop us if you’ve heard this before: State can’t find e-mails from key Hillary email scandal figure
Ho-hum — another day, another stonewall. Give ABC News credit for picking up on a very curious lack of transparency involving a key figure in the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal. Bryan Pagliano got immunity from the Department of Justice but managed to keep from having to testify when the FBI recommended no action on the case, despite clear evidence of lawbreaking by Hillary and her aides. Pagliano, a State Department information-technology specialist, also has had his internal State communications mysteriously vanish, and the National Archives — and the Republican Party — want to know why …
Easy to speculate about – the aforementioned stonewalling by State has been systematic all through this entire scandal, so Pagliano’s .pst file listing all of his emails going missing is, for this administration, “par for the course” (pun intended) as State has worked overtime on playing the CYA game, not only for itself and many of it’s staffers, but also for Clinton, rather than what it should have been working overtime on, which is following the law.
Time after time, the State Department has either ignored until sued, or glacially slow-walked, every FOIA request or Congressional subpoena. Don’t believe me? Go here and check out their archives to see how many times they’ve had to sue State to get records requested via FOIA. And they aren’t the only entity that has had to sue to get State to cough up records requested through FOIA. And State isn’t the only agency that does this, either.
So much for the “most transparent administration in history” BS. Make sure to read all of the articles linked to. If I become aware of anything new, I’ll update this at the top.
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