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Related: About this forumThe Real Clinton Email Scandal: Our Ridiculous Classification Rules
The Real Clinton Email Scandal: Our Ridiculous Classification Rules
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/the-real-clinton-email-scandal-our-ridiculous-classification-rules-121507
Hillary Clintons use of a personal email account for official State Department business was a mistake, but the revelation that Clintons emails contain upwards of 305 messages with potentially classified information is far less scandalous than the headlines make it appear. The most troubling part of this story involves the rules governing official secrets, not Clintons conduct as Secretary of State.
As a former Department of Justice official who regularly dealt with classified information, I am glad a team of officials from the FBI, the intelligence community and other agencies is not currently reviewing every email I sent and received while I worked in government. If they did, they would likely find arguably classified information that was transmitted over unclassified networksand the same thing is undoubtedly true for other senior officials at the White House, the State Department and other top national security agencies.
The sheer volume of information now considered classified, as well as the extreme, and often absurd, interpretations by intelligence officials about what is and is not classified, make it nearly impossible for officials charged with operating in both the classified and unclassified worlds to do so without ever mixing the two.
From the intelligence communitys perspective, the border between these two worlds looks like a brick wall. Many intelligence officials spend their entire day working inside so-called Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities, designed to be impenetrable to eavesdropping, and using only separate, classified email systems to communicate with others in government. In these hermetically sealed environments, there is no need to ever sort through the differences between classified and unclassified information.
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The Real Clinton Email Scandal: Our Ridiculous Classification Rules (Original Post)
Recoverin_Republican
Mar 2016
OP
scscholar
(2,902 posts)1. Exactly. Other people like Colin Powell...
did it too.
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)2. And we should always do our best
to emulate Colin Powell, Condi Rice, and all those other GOP visionaries.
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)3. Jeffrey Dahmer
is a victim of our absurd culinary regulations.....