U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton checks her phone while sitting next to South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan (R) at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea, November 30, 2011. REUTERS/Saul Loeb/Pool
New York Times: Agencies Battle Over What Is ‘Top Secret’ in Hillary Clinton’s Emails
WASHINGTON — Some of the nation’s intelligence agencies raised alarms last spring as the State Department began releasing emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server, saying that a number of the messages contained information that should be classified “top secret.”
The diplomats saw things differently and pushed back at the spies.
In the months since, a battle has played out between the State Department and the intelligence agencies — as well as Congress — over what information on Mrs. Clinton’s private server was classified and what was the routine business of American diplomacy, according to government officials and letters obtained by The New York Times.
At the center of that argument, the officials said, is a “top secret” program of the Central Intelligence Agency that is anything but secret. It is the agency’s long effort to track and kill suspected terrorists overseas with armed drones, which has been the subject of international debates, numerous newspaper articles, television programs and entire books.
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WNU Editor: What's my take .... when you work at the level that she worked at when she was in the administration .... all emails must be considered "Top Secret" .... even if it involves her favourite cheesecake recipe. But aside from that, what I now find interesting about this story is that there are apparently 150 FBI agents on her case .... but they have yet to question the main suspect of their case ... Hillary Clinton. But when Colin Powell's name came up that he may have had 2 emails classified "top secret" on his personal email .... they immediately rushed to question him .... FBI contacts Colin Powell as part of email probe (Politico). This case is getting better and better.
3 comments:
Two points:
If nothing she said was worthy of classifacation, then she was a pretty lame secstate.Oh wait.
If her email address was not available to everyone at Dept of State, then she would not receive urgent messages by default, kind of like a tree falling in the woods with no one to hear it. So, say you were the Ambassador Stevens requesting more security or DOD Chief of Staff who could not her reach by phone so sent her a cable to what he thought would reach her requesting approval for help from Libyan authroities for units that can move to Benghazi. She would not have received this cable because her address was not widely distributed on the State's system. She herself admitted she did not give it to Stevens, her "friend."
Fun reading:
"Now you see it. Now you don�t.
This is not a magician�s incantation. It is a description of retroactive classification, a little-known provision of U.S. national security law that allows the government to declassify a document, release it to the public, and then declare it classified later on. Retroactive classification means the government could hand you a document today and prosecute you tomorrow for not giving it back. Retroactive classification can even reach documents that are available in public libraries, on the Internet, or elsewhere in the public domain."
https://www.pennlawreview.com/print/?id=472
Other fun reading:
http://boingboing.net/2015/01/21/u-s-tries-to-convict-jeffrey.html
https://www.emptywheel.net/2012/01/23/despite-metaphysical-impossibility-us-government-repeatedly-attempts-retroactive-classification/
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/us/politics/george-w-bush-made-retroactive-nsa-fix-after-hospital-room-showdown.html?referer=
http://pogoarchive.pub30.convio.net/investigations/government-secrecy/sibel-edmonds.html
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