BREAKING: Clinton E-Mail
Bombshell- Nail in the Coffin?
As HotAir notes, a story emerged today that
could be a potential bombshell in the
investigation into Democratic frontrunner
Hillary Clinton. A direct order from Hillary to
send a classified email via unsecured channels:
Has the State Department released
a smoking gun in the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal? In a thread from
June 2011, Hillary exchanges e-mails with Jake Sullivan, then her deputy
chief of staff and now her campaign foreign-policy adviser, in which she
impatiently waits for a set of talking points. When Sullivan tells her that
the source is having trouble with the secure fax, Hillary then orders
Sullivan to have the data stripped of its markings and sent through a
non-secure channel.
That should be game, set, and match, yes?
“If they can’t, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send
nonsecure.” That’s an order to violate the laws handling classified
material. There is no other way to read that demand. Regardless of
whether or not Sullivan complied, this demolishes Hillary’s claim to be
ignorant of marking issues, as well as strongly suggests that the
other thousand-plus instances where this did occur likely came
under her direction.
How bad is this? At Townhall, Guy Benson notes:
Where to begin? Let's start with the least serious revelation, and work
our way up: (1) Hillary evinced surprise that a State Department
underling had used his personal account to send an official email.
How rich. Yes, the State Department had explicitly instructed
employees to follow the rules and only use secure means to
disseminate official information. State sanctioned at least one
top diplomat for disregarding those rules. Mrs. Clinton may have
been especially "surprised" at Godfrey's actions because they came
after she'd been issued a dire warning that foreign entities were
aggressively targeting State Department officials' personal, unsecure
email accounts. But lest you need reminding, Hillary Clinton exclusively
used such accounts to conduct all of her official business -- via an
improper, unsecure, private server -- before and after this urgent
red flag was brought to her attention.
(2) "Clinton...has repeatedly maintained that she did not send or
receive classified material on her personal account." This assertion
has been disproven by the more than 1,000 classified emails
discovered on her private server, including 66 additions from this
batch alone. Her myriad excuses for this have been debunked
piece by piece.
(3) Her final justification -- which is legally irrelevant, as Hillary
herself has personally attested -- is that none of the sensitive
material that she wrongfully transmitted through her unsecure
server was "marked classified" at the time. Again, this is meaningless,
especially when it comes to highly secret material that she was
obligated to recognize and protect as soon as it was produced.
But the email chain referenced above includes an instruction
from Hillary Clinton to a State Department aide (who now
works on her campaign) to strip classified information --
it remains redacted to this day -- of its classified markings
["identifying heading"] and "send nonsecure.
If this is as bad as it looks, Democrats may find themselves voting for an open
socialist in Bernie Sanders for president. You know, that guy who said "The
American people are sick and tired of hearing about" Hillary's emails.
Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?
Source: AANIsn't it ironic? Don't you think?
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