Little-Acorn
Gold Member
It just gets worse and worse for Hillary.
At first, she insisted there was no classified information on her private email server.
Then she backed off a little and said there was no information marked classified on it.
Then the revised her defense a little further, and said she had never sent or received any information that was classified.
Still later her campaign backpedaled even further, saying that none of the information on her private email server was classified at the time it was on the server.
Now Reuters has discovered that a number of the emails on the private server, were classified from the moment they were created, and were classified when on the server.
It's more than a year before the election. At this rate, by Nov. 8, 2016, Hillary will be admitting she had emailed the Rosenbergs complete plans for the hydrogen bomb for forwarding to Russia. And she'll still be insisting she did nothing wrong.
-----------------------------------------------
Exclusive: Dozens of Clinton emails were classified from the start, U.S. rules suggest
Exclusive: Dozens of Clinton emails were classified from the start, U.S. rules suggest
NEW YORK | By Jonathan Allen
Fri Aug 21, 2015 1:03pm EDT
For months, the U.S. State Department has stood behind its former boss Hillary Clinton as she has repeatedly said she did not send or receive classified information on her unsecured, private email account, a practice the government forbids.
While the department is now stamping a few dozen of the publicly released emails as "Classified," it stresses this is not evidence of rule-breaking. Those stamps are new, it says, and do not mean the information was classified when Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner in the 2016 presidential election, first sent or received it.
But the details included in those "Classified" stamps — which include a string of dates, letters and numbers describing the nature of the classification — appear to undermine this account, a Reuters examination of the emails and the relevant regulations has found.
The new stamps indicate that some of Clinton's emails from her time as the nation's most senior diplomat are filled with a type of information the U.S. government and the department's own regulations automatically deems classified from the get-go — regardless of whether it is already marked that way or not.
In the small fraction of emails made public so far, Reuters has found at least 30 email threads from 2009, representing scores of individual emails, that include what the State Department's own "Classified" stamps now identify as so-called 'foreign government information.' The U.S. government defines this as any information, written or spoken, provided in confidence to U.S. officials by their foreign counterparts.
This sort of information, which the department says Clinton both sent and received in her emails, is the only kind that must be "presumed" classified, in part to protect national security and the integrity of diplomatic interactions, according to U.S. regulations examined by Reuters.
"It's born classified," said J. William Leonard, a former director of the U.S. government's Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO). Leonard was director of ISOO, part of the White House's National Archives and Records Administration, from 2002 until 2008, and worked for both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.
"If a foreign minister just told the secretary of state something in confidence, by U.S. rules that is classified at the moment it's in U.S. channels and U.S. possession," he said in a telephone interview, adding that for the State Department to say otherwise was "blowing smoke."
At first, she insisted there was no classified information on her private email server.
Then she backed off a little and said there was no information marked classified on it.
Then the revised her defense a little further, and said she had never sent or received any information that was classified.
Still later her campaign backpedaled even further, saying that none of the information on her private email server was classified at the time it was on the server.
Now Reuters has discovered that a number of the emails on the private server, were classified from the moment they were created, and were classified when on the server.
It's more than a year before the election. At this rate, by Nov. 8, 2016, Hillary will be admitting she had emailed the Rosenbergs complete plans for the hydrogen bomb for forwarding to Russia. And she'll still be insisting she did nothing wrong.
-----------------------------------------------
Exclusive: Dozens of Clinton emails were classified from the start, U.S. rules suggest
Exclusive: Dozens of Clinton emails were classified from the start, U.S. rules suggest
NEW YORK | By Jonathan Allen
Fri Aug 21, 2015 1:03pm EDT
For months, the U.S. State Department has stood behind its former boss Hillary Clinton as she has repeatedly said she did not send or receive classified information on her unsecured, private email account, a practice the government forbids.
While the department is now stamping a few dozen of the publicly released emails as "Classified," it stresses this is not evidence of rule-breaking. Those stamps are new, it says, and do not mean the information was classified when Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner in the 2016 presidential election, first sent or received it.
But the details included in those "Classified" stamps — which include a string of dates, letters and numbers describing the nature of the classification — appear to undermine this account, a Reuters examination of the emails and the relevant regulations has found.
The new stamps indicate that some of Clinton's emails from her time as the nation's most senior diplomat are filled with a type of information the U.S. government and the department's own regulations automatically deems classified from the get-go — regardless of whether it is already marked that way or not.
In the small fraction of emails made public so far, Reuters has found at least 30 email threads from 2009, representing scores of individual emails, that include what the State Department's own "Classified" stamps now identify as so-called 'foreign government information.' The U.S. government defines this as any information, written or spoken, provided in confidence to U.S. officials by their foreign counterparts.
This sort of information, which the department says Clinton both sent and received in her emails, is the only kind that must be "presumed" classified, in part to protect national security and the integrity of diplomatic interactions, according to U.S. regulations examined by Reuters.
"It's born classified," said J. William Leonard, a former director of the U.S. government's Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO). Leonard was director of ISOO, part of the White House's National Archives and Records Administration, from 2002 until 2008, and worked for both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.
"If a foreign minister just told the secretary of state something in confidence, by U.S. rules that is classified at the moment it's in U.S. channels and U.S. possession," he said in a telephone interview, adding that for the State Department to say otherwise was "blowing smoke."
.
