Clinton emails not highly classified, intel agency reportedly rules

The libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute think-tank obtained the document with Hillary’s signature, which the State Department declassified on Thursday, and gave it to the conservative Washington Free Beacon.

The Democratic presidential frontrunner defended her unauthorized possession of SCI and her sending of emails containing classified information by claiming that the information was not marked as classified when it was sent or received.

The “Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement”, or SF-312, also makes clear that “classified information is marked or unmarked classified information, including oral communications”.

The importance of Clinton signing the NDA is that it undermines that very argument. However, the Agreement she signed said: “I understand that it is my responsibility to consult with appropriate management authorities in the Department…in order to ensure that I know whether information or material within my knowledge or control that I have reason to believe might be SCI”.

Intelligence officials claimed one email in Clinton’s account was classified because it contained information from a top secret intelligence community “product” or report, but a further review determined that the report was not issued until several days after the email in question was written, the source said.

Numerous now-classified documents contain a type of information called foreign government information.

The finding that Clinton signed the SF-312 settles a question that The Daily Caller raised in September.

The determination came after a dispute between the intelligence community watchdog and the State Department, which contested the initial determination.

The agreement Clinton signed in 2009, which warns against “negligent handling” of state secrets, conflicts with her more recent positions on the presidential campaign trail.

A day after assuming office as secretary of state, Clinton signed a Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement that laid out criminal penalties for “any unauthorized disclosure” of classified information.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now investigating the retention of classified information on Clinton’s server.

Tony Katz spoke with Lachlan Markay of Free Beacon about his breaking story on Hillary Clinton’s continued email scandal, and a non-disclosure agreement signed by Clinton, and her assistants Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin. As with Clinton, both used off-the-books email accounts on which they sent and received classified information.