MOUNTING EVIDENCE? Over 300 emails flagged for potentially classified info
Ensnared are the White House (defending Clinton and surveying executive agencies as they enlarge the scope of scrutiny); State Department; Justice Department; the intelligence community; congressional investigative committees; courts responding to Freedom of Information Act lawsuits tied to the emails; a private IT company in Denver (Platte River Networks) and a secondary IT outfit in New Jersey; the Clinton Foundation; Clinton’s attorneys and a prominent D.C. law firm; her past and current personal aides; and the candidate and her campaign team.
It said the emails was used for hands on analysis is from one of these close to 20 per cents of one’s Clinton emails tried whether the they usually are unveil freely.
Two memos from the candidate’s top campaign advisers sought this week to reassure alarmed and perplexed Clinton backers: a message sent to rank-and-file Democrats called the imbroglio “nonsense“, and a six-page memo to elite donors and supporters from her campaign manager said that “in the face of these unprecedented headwinds, we’ve made a strategic decision to fight back and set the record straight”. Tom Harkin, who endorsed her on Friday, Clinton said “the facts are the same as they have been from the beginning”. The You can include.S. authorities… Before a judge, she admitted that she had given the State Department all of her work-related emails.
Clinton has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, though her denials have shifted from saying in March that that there was no classified e-mail on the server to denying having sent or received e-mail marked classified on her server, which was kept at her Chappaqua, New York home.
The government forbids the sending of classified information outside unsecured networks because it could harm national security if intercepted.
Because Clinton’s possession of classified information on her personal server has prompted a criminal FBI investigation, Grassley also asked Kendall whether the former Secretary’s security clearance has been suspended until the inquiry is over. Some of the emails have multiple redactions out of respect for classified information.
The State Department did not explain the reversal in the court document, nor did it return a request for comment. Only recently has the department begun automatically archiving the records of dozens of senior officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry.
Other federal employees can tell Clinton all about how wayward emails played havoc with their career plans. She maintained her personal server and thumb drives given to her attorney.
Officials told The Washington Times that 60 emails had been flagged through the end of July by investigators reviewing Clinton’s correspondence.
-U.S. Code 18, Section 798 carries a maximum 10-year sentence for the more-serious infraction of using communication intelligence derived from a foreign government in a manner prejudicial to the U.S.
Five former Secretaries of States and their staffs are being investigated as well over the issue of private server use and vulnerable information practices. Among respondents, 63% of those under the age of 35 believe she knowingly lied about her email server; the number of respondents who indicated they thought she’d “failed to be completley honest” actually decreases as the age groups increase. In Clinton’s time, most officials saved their emails onto a separate file or printed them out when leaving office.
That is a reversal from 2013, when the State Department said a thorough search turned up no responsive records for Gawker’s request.