Potentially serious Hillary Email news
I know people are going to immediately either jump on this or dismiss this... My intention is not for that to happen, but just to share this information. I personally can't asses want it means and won't be assuming anyone else on DU is able to either.
Spy agencies say Clinton emails closely matched top secret documents: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. spy agencies have told Congress that Hillary Clinton's home computer server contained some emails that should have been treated as "top secret" because their wording matched sections of some of the government's most highly classified documents, four sources familiar with the agency reports said.
The two reports are the first formal declarations by U.S. spy agencies detailing how they believe Clinton violated government rules when highly classified information in at least 22 email messages passed through her unsecured home server.
The agencies did not find any top secret documents that passed through Clinton's server in their full version, the sources from Congress and the government's executive branch said.
However, the agency reports found some emails included passages that closely tracked or mirrored communications marked "top secret," according to the sources, who all requested anonymity. In some cases, additional classification markings meant access was supposed to be limited to small groups of specially cleared officials.
Under the law and government rules, U.S. officials and contractors may not transmit any classified information - not only documents - outside secure, government-controlled channels. Such information should not be sent even through the government's .gov email network.
It's interesting to me that:
"Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall, did not respond to a request for comment. Clinton campaign spokespeople did not respond to multiple requests for comment."
That seems unusual.
It's also interesting that they're talking about not just documents but as little as sentences or paragraphs.
http://news.yahoo.com/spy-agencies-clinton-emails-closely-matched-top-secret-213108714.html
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so a document could be classified (categorized) as top secret, or as confidential, or whatever. Those labels represent different classifications. It makes sense, then, that "classified" itself is not its own classification, it is the overall group that all such labeled documents are part of.
Similarly, a newspapers's "classified ads" are, similarly, simply "categorized" -- what makes the ads "classified" is that some are listed under "automobiles" and and some under "real estate" and so forth. There is no category in the ads that is simply called "classified," they are *all* classified (categorized) by their sub-heading.
It makes sense, then, that the government has a range of limited access classifications (and a document that the government has "declassified" simply no longer falls within any of those classifications). Anything that falls into any of their classifications has, by semantic definition, been classified. It makes sense that "classified" itself is not a label; you don't classify something as "classified," rather something determined to fall under the category of "secret" has been classified as "secret."
Now whether she would actually use the dodge that a document classified as "secret" would have not been marked as "classified" (it would have been properly classified and marked as "secret"
would be some first class parsing indeed.
Even we democrats are drinking the GOP grape kool-aid.
Have we even looked at Powell's and Rice's emails? The prior two Secretary of States who also used private email servers. Oh wait, nothing to see here because they are GOP and we don't smear them.
Why is it a large drop ???
