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Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 08:16 PM Sep 2016

Top Intel Official Says US Should 'Not Bother' Labeling Some Info Classified

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/amid-clinton-email-scandal-top-intel-official-us/story?id=41927414


If the nation's top intelligence official had his way, some of the classified information found on Hillary Clinton's private email server wouldn't have been deemed sensitive enough to be classified in the first place.

Speaking today at an intelligence-related summit in Washington, D.C., Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said U.S. agencies are “guilty” of labeling too much information as classified, and he said agencies could “somewhat simplify our system” if they would “just not bother” restricting information that's currently classified as “confidential,” the lowest level of classification.

Clapper was not speaking about Clinton’s case, instead referring to a broader effort to overhaul the classification system used across the U.S. government. But his comments come amid an increasing debate over the classified information found on the private server that the Democratic presidential nominee used when she was secretary of state.
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LOL! In this article only seen on the web, ABC let's out what they DARE NOT say on the air....

But the emails were not properly marked, lacking a header or footer to signal they contained classified information, according to the FBI report.


Probably only few percent of the population know this because it completely negates the narrative M$M must continue to promote - that Hillary lied about not sending or receiving anything marked classified.


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