Now that several e-mails on Hillary Clinton's private server have been classified, there is a more immediate question than the outcome of the investigation: Should the former secretary of state retain her security clearance during the inquiry? Congressional Republicans and Democrats offer predictably different answers.
The State Department announced Friday that it would not release 22 e-mails from Clinton’s private server after a review found they contained information designated as top secret. U.S. officials who reviewed the e-mails tell us they contain the names of U.S. intelligence officers overseas, but not the identities of undercover spies; summaries of sensitive meetings with foreign officials; and information on classified programs like drone strikes and intelligence-collection efforts in North Korea.
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Update: Lawmaker Says He’s ‘Never Read Anything That’s More Sensitive’ Than Information In Hillary’s ‘Top Secret’ Emails (Daily Caller)
WNU Editor: US Democrat Senators who have read the emails are trying their best to defend Hillary Clinton .... but it is getting harder everyday. What's my take .... setting up an independent server to handle your communications .... and not being sensitive on what was being sent or received .... poor judgement does not even come close to explaining this. And as to the argument on whether she should keep her security clearance or not .... I know that if it was anyone else .... it would be taken away on the spot and that person would be facing some serious charges.
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The audit into classified emails going to private servers has also tagged:
Colin Powell and Susan Rice.
The sad reality is that for a very long time, in both the Corporate and Public world, the "Bosses" don't think the rules apply to them, just the "peon's".
The timing of this disclosure and the person who revealed these emails is very telling .... Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/blog/bal-cummings-reveals-classified-emails-20160204-story.html
Colin Powell has already responded to these claims and the two emails in question. They have been classified as 'Confidential', the lowest tier of classification. Unlike the classification that Hillary Clinton's emails have received (basically ultra-top secret).
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/fbi-colin-powell-email-probe-218748
Suzanne Rice has not made a comment yet.
My view on this matter is simple .... if the law was broken .... they should be punished. I know when I worked as a diplomat all communications had to be considered top secret .... even something as innocuous as a weather report.
Obama stuck his chief political rival over in Foggy Bottom. How much harm could she do there? She'd be neutered in politics, that's the main consideration for Obama. "I'm sending you my best," he told the assembled diplomats.
But it's just another bad legacy of Obama's tenure, Bill's wife at State. Her two main efforts were to displace President Assad and to destroy Libya, in defiance of the mere no-fly zone allowed by the UN. Libya and Syria came together in Benghazi, when Clinton's boy Stevens bought the farm while overseeing arms to Turkey for Syria. She was a complete failure at State, with no pluses and several huge minuses. Doesn't matter. Style over substance, values over results -- she's a leading presidential hopeful. Go Hill.
On emails, they'll have to find a law she's broken and then get a grand jury to indict her prior to the election, if she's the Dem nominee. Meanwhile she's got tons of money to buy anyone off.
State confirmed it to NBC today, and the categories are "classified" and "confidential".
If everybody who broke and skirted the rules in the US Government were charged an prosecuted, there would only be 9 Senators, 11 Reps, 1 Departnent head, 1 Admiral and two Generals left standing.
There are two tiers of "Justice" and in a Nation that won't prosecute it's own War Crimes, I doubt Hillary will appear in the dock anytime before Dick Cheney.
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