In email, Hillary Clinton tells aide to send talking points “nonsecure”

After Clinton received a report from State Department analyst John Godfrey about Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi, she wrote back: “I was surprised that he used personal email account if he is at State”.

Clinton and her daughter Chelsea Clinton exchanged emails after 8 p.m. on September 11, 2012, with Chelsea Clinton using the alias “Diane Reynolds”.

It’s unclear whether the talking points themselves contained classified information.

He also pointed out that it is not uncommon for unclassified documents to be created, edited and shared on a classified system. On its face, the former Secretary of State appears to be directing her staff to take material that they plainly believed ought to be sent via a secure method, and send it via a method that might make it susceptible to interception by unintended recipients.

Clinton also expressed surprise in another 2011 email that a State Department staffer would use a private email account for work, according to the latest batch of Clinton emails released by the State Department under a schedule ordered by a federal judge.

Sullivan reported “issues sending secure fax”, prompting Clinton to reply that that if they couldn’t send it by fax, they should “turn it into nonpaper w/no identifying heading and send nonsecure”.

The e-mail is part of a 2,900-page document dump released in the early morning hours Friday.

In emails released late yesterday, Clinton exchanges messages with aide Jake Sullivan in June 2011.

Clinton’s email practices have been a source of criticism since March 2015, when it was revealed she used a private email server to conduct official business while at the State Department. None of these were identified as such at the time they were sent. “It’s likely the more our enemies learn about her disregard for classified material, the more they are hoping she wins the presidency”. That brought the total to more than 1,300 classified emails that were on Clinton’s private server.

In addition to Wood, the committee’s panel of witnesses included Dr. Martin Casado, senior vice president and general manager of networking and security business unit at VMWare; Ken Schneider, vice president of technology strategy at Symantec Corporation; and Larry Clinton, president and CEO at Internet Security Alliance.

Clinton told the Benghazi congressional committee last October that she “did not ask [Blumenthal] to send me the information that he sent me”.

“I think it is both dishonorable and unsafe and want to find a way to say it”, Clinton said.

In September 2010, Clinton aide Philippe Reines discussed the furor over a proposed mosque near the site of the destroyed World Trade Center in NY, calling the issue a “real problem” for the White House and advising Clinton to stay clear of the topic. “Waay down”, Reines wrote.

“In the interest of transparency, Hillary Clinton must call on the State Department to commit to a more open process – releases in the middle of the night and on holidays are an obvious attempt to hide the truth”, RNC chair Reince Priebus said in a statement Friday.