Observer: BREAKING: Hillary Clinton Put Spies’ Lives at Risk
It's not the 'nothing-burger' Clinton allies have tried to portray -- lives are literally at stake.
For months you’ve read about EmailGate in this column. I’ve elaborated how Hillary Clinton, the apparent Democratic frontrunner for President this year, put large amounts of classified information at grave risk through slipshod security practices by herself and her staff. Now that scandal has taken a significant turn for the more ominous.
Last Friday afternoon the State Department’s latest court-mandated release of Hillary Clinton’s emails from when she was Secretary of State caused a new political firestorm. While many more emails were released by Foggy Bottom, some with redactions due to classified materials they contained, twenty-two emails totaling thirty-seven pages of text were withheld entirely at the request of the Intelligence Community. Those twenty-two emails, deemed “unclassified” by Ms. Clinton and her staff, were judged to be Top Secret in reality.
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Update #1: Hillary’s emails included CIA officers’ names, report says (NYPost).
Update #2: Official: Withheld Clinton emails contain 'operational' intel, put lives at risk (FOX News)
WNU Editor: Someone is leaking this info to the press .... and if true what they are leaking is incredibly explosive. When Valarie Plame was exposed as a CIA officer, it resulted in a scandal that seriously shook the Bush administration and that resulted in prosecutions. But Valerie Plame was one CIA officer .... the Hillary Clinton's email scandal is far more ominous, and one has to wonder how much of a breach in security this really is. Unfortunately .... the emails that are in question are not going to be released .... so the speculation and the politics behind it will only intensify.
2 comments:
There has been, to my knowledge, no claim that Clinton broke a specific law. It may be that there are no laws governing her use of emails. There are laws about classified documents--
--18 USC 793: Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody etc
--and 18 USC 1924: Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents...etc
But are there laws which pertain to her emails, which as I understand it were not classified at the time? And if she did not publicize or consciously release any of that info?
Technically, it's still illegal and a violation of any US Government employee's NDA and Classified status, to look at the Wikileaks Cables, or send copies from the website or news stories,
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-cables-blocks-access-federal
As even though it's out in public, it's all still "Classified".
Don't even google Edward Snowden on a Government computer.
There's an awful lot of leaks from what is a supposed "classified" investigation.
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