"Here's the latest on classified information being sent via email
at the State Department:
The State Department has removed from its unclassified electronic archives a dozen sensitive emails sent to the personal accounts of former secretary of state Colin L. Powell and the staff of his successor, Condoleezza Rice, according to a memo released Friday by the agency’s watchdog....None of the messages was marked as classified or secret at the time it was sent, but [the department’s inspector general, Steve Linick] wrote the emails may have contained “potentially sensitive material” because of the subject matter.
Powell has said he has reviewed the messages and disagrees with a State Department decision to retroactively classify them. “I do not see what makes them classified,” he said.
Hillary Clinton probably sent a lot more emails the Powell, so she ended up with more emails retroactively being classified. Plus the CIA is apparently obsessed with pretending that the US drone program is a deep, dark secret. As usual with Clinton "scandals," this one is dribbling away to nothing in the light of day, and would undoubtedly dribble a lot faster if any of us could actually see the emails. It's an election season, so none of this will convince Republicans that there's nothing of any consequence here, but there's nothing of any consequence here. It's just another boneheaded excrescence of the Benghazi pet rock."
Classification is not determined by the markings on the document. It is determined by the content of the document. Anyone who has held a security clearance knows that.
Face it, Hillary violated federal security laws and a grand jury has been empaneled to review it and decide on indictments. The immunity granted to her aide could only happen if a grand jury had done a preliminary review and found grounds for indictment.
you dems better scramble and find another candidate. HRC is toast.
Hey Bubbo, other SOS's had classified information on their personal accounts (I still can;'t get over Powell used an AOL account - AOL! to conduct gov't business.
State Department removes a dozen emails from unclassified electronic archives
March 4 at 12:25 PM The State Department has removed from its unclassified electronic archives a dozen sensitive emails sent to the personal accounts of former secretary of state Colin L. Powell and the staff of his successor, Condoleezza Rice, according to a memo released Friday by the agency’s watchdog.
Two emails sent to Powell and 10 emails sent to aides who worked for Rice have been placed in secure storage, Patrick F. Kennedy, the department’s undersecretary for management, wrote in a memo to the department’s inspector general, Steve Linick. The action was taken in response to a recommendation by Linick last month as part of his review of records preservation by five secretaries and their staffs since email became a common means of communication.
None of the messages was marked as classified or secret at the time it was sent, but Linick wrote the emails may have contained “potentially sensitive material” because of the subject matter.
Powell has said he has reviewed the messages and disagrees with a State Department decision to retroactively classify them. “I do not see what makes them classified,” he said.
His remarks buttress the contention of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton that some of her emails have been retroactively subjected to “over-classification.”
The intelligence community has concluded that “top secret” information was included in 22 emails that went through Clinton’s private server while she was in office.
The State Department has been analyzing the contents of Clinton’s correspondence as it has been preparing 52,000 pages of Clinton’s emails for public release. The State Department has said 2,093 of Clinton’s released emails were redacted in all or part because they contained classified material, the vast majority of it rated “confidential,” the lowest level of sensitivity in the classification system.
The dozen emails sent to Powell and to Rice’s aides were among 19 the inspector general submitted for intelligence review. Late last year, the State Department said it determined that 12 of the 19 contained national security information considered secret or confidential..."
State Department removes a dozen emails from unclassified electronic archives
And no, there is no evidence a Grand Jury has been impaneled --
This IT guy was granted immunity last year - and so far, diddlysquat has been proven she violated any laws.
Try not to be too crestfallen when what you want to have happen, doesn't happen.
