State Department Disproves Hugh Hewitt's Claim That Hillary Clinton Broke A Law

[Historic NY]

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt dubiously claimed that a newly released email shows former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broke a "statute [that] prohibits misuse of classified information" because she allegedly "directed [an aide] to alter and send [a document] over a non-secure system." Yet, according to a State Department review, officials "found no indication the document in question was sent to Secretary Clinton using nonsecure fax or email."




The State Department provided more detail Saturday about a 2011 document at the center of Hillary Clinton's latest email controversy, as an official said the former secretary of state never received the paper by nonsecure fax. But many other questions remained unanswered.

Clinton, whose presidential campaign has been challenged by her use of a private email account while secretary of state, is facing questions anew after Friday's revelation that she asked an adviser to go around a secure fax system to transmit a set of "talking points" on an unspecified subject.

Clinton told the adviser to turn it "into nonpaper w/no identifying heading and send nonsecure." Republicans immediately pounced on the exchange and suggested it proved impropriety.

The State Department said Friday that no such document was sent by email.

And on Saturday, a State Department official who wasn't authorized to speak publicly on the increasingly complicated review of Clinton's emails said the agency "checked its records and found no indication that the document in question was sent to Secretary Clinton using nonsecure fax or email."

The official, who demanded anonymity, said records instead turned up a secure fax transmission shortly after Clinton's email exchange with adviser Jake Sullivan on June 17, 2011. The implication was that this was the same document. [Associated Press, 1/9/16]


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[Cary]

1. Hewitt and all "conservatives" are lying liars.

They need to pay a price for their lies and smears.

[Thinkingabout]

2. Hugh Hewitt is so damn anxious to throw Hillary in jail he is incapable of

Seeing the truth.

[Sancho]

3. ...and some on DU repeat the RW memes...

[JayhawkSD]

4. Sort of missing the point, I think

The issue is not whether of not the staffer sent the email unclassified. The issue, which seems to be uncontested, is that Clinton instructed the staffer to remove classified headings and send the message as an unclassified memo. Giving that instruction was an unlawful act, whether the staffer followed it or not and regardless of how she received the message.

I realize I'm not supposed to say anything negative about Clinton here, but saying that "Hugh Hewitt is lying" because it can't be proved how she received the message or that a staffer actually followed an instruction that Clinton admittedly issued is a bit much.

Actually, if she did receive it via nonsecure method, her instruction to "remove the identifying heading and send nonsecure" would be less of an issue. The indication that she apparently received it via a secure method and then instructed a staffer to send it via a nonsecure method makes the issue even worse, so the "unidentified official" is not doing her any favors with his statement.

Again, I'm not bashing Clinton here, I'm just pointing out the fallacy in an argument.

[stonecutter357]

6. .

[Historic NY]

7. You must have missed it .....

it didn't happen

[OilemFirchen]

8. Nonsecure =/= Unclassified.

There's no evidence that this was classifed in any manner.

[stonecutter357]

5. K&R!