At least 1,340 Clinton emails now known to contain classified material

[morningfog]

At least 1,340 emails that Hillary Clinton sent or received contained classified material, according to the State Department’s latest update from its ongoing review of more than 30,000 emails.

The State Department released a new batch of 3,007 pages of Clinton’s emails after 1:30 a.m. Friday in response to a court order. Of those, 66 contain classified information.

None of Clinton’’s emails was marked as classified during her tenure, State Department officials say, but intelligence officials say some material was clearly classified at the time. Her aides also sent and received classified information.

Clinton has been under fire for months for exclusively using personal email routed through a private server while serving as the nation’s top diplomat. The FBI launched an inquiry into the handling of sensitive information after classified information was found in some.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article53685825.html#storylink=cpy

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, morningfog.

[ismnotwasm]

2. Yawn

[Pauldg47]

8. Like Hillary brushing off her shoulder in the last hearing....this sounds more serious than before..

...arrogance.

[mwrguy]

3. OH MY GOD

nobody cares

[morningfog]

4. Except the FBI.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Hillary Clinton Says She Didn’t Use Personal Email Account to Send or Receive Secret Data

July 25, 2015 9:29 p.m. ET
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WINTERSET, Iowa— Hillary Clinton said she didn’t use her personal email account to send or receive classified information when she was Secretary of State, disputing a government intelligence watchdog’s finding that her emails contained material that should have been considered secret.

Although the inspector general of the intelligence community concluded Mrs. Clinton sent at least four emails that included classified information, the front-running Democratic presidential hopeful was adamant on Saturday that she had sent only unclassified material from her personal account. “The facts are pretty clear: I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at the time,” Mrs. Clinton told reporters in Iowa.

The inspector general revealed its findings in a letter to Congress this week, reporting the emails in question contained material from the intelligence community that was classified when it was sent.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-says-she-didnt-use-personal-email-account-to-send-or-receive-secret-data-1437870630

But now the story is


At least 1,340 Clinton emails now known to contain classified material

At least 1,340 emails that Hillary Clinton sent or received contained classified material, according to the State Department’s latest update from its ongoing review of more than 30,000 emails.

The State Department released a new batch of 3,007 pages of Clinton’s emails after 1:30 a.m. Friday in response to a court order. Of those, 66 contain classified information.

None of Clinton’’s emails was marked as classified during her tenure, State Department officials say, but intelligence officials say some material was clearly classified at the time. Her aides also sent and received classified information.

[progressoid]

10. Sadly, "42 percent of the public believes Clinton's email issue is important"

[99Forever]

17. And that sir...

... is exactly where you the rest of Camp Weathervane are utterly and completely wrong.

There are quite literally millions of American voters that do indeed, "OMG" care.

That you choose to insult their intelligence, speaks loudly to yours.

[razorman]

18. Exactly. If we downplay the seriousness of this matter,

simply because we like and support the person ultimately responsible, we are hypocrites whenever we go after the Republicans for similar things. I recall the uproar over Valerie Plame. As serious as that was, this promises to be much more damaging to national security. If half of what has been reported is true, there is no way that China, Russia and Iran do not have this material.

[earthside]

6. Could Hillary be indicted?

Frankly, I haven't followed this issue that closely, but I have heard that there is some potential exposure to criminality.

And there is an ongoing FBI investigation ... so who knows.

What a year ...

If the Repuglicans nominate Cruz, he could be disqualified for not meeting Constitutional qualifications.
And ... Democrats could nominate Clinton who then is indicted.

[millbrooky]

7. You "have heard" from H. A. Goodman or a conservative?

Which one?

[jeff47]

11. Probably not.

There's basically 3 ways someone who isn't in the military can get indicted for leaking classified information
1) Directly give classified to a foreign government
2) Sell classified to anyone
3) Cause classified to leak due to negligence.

Clinton didn't do #1 or #2. And she can argue that she relied on her tech people to avoid #3. Her tech guy is in deep shit because of #3, because the security on her server was utterly abysmal. But she can argue she thought he had it covered.

While she will probably avoid indictment, it still will not exactly be helpful in her campaign.

If the Repuglicans nominate Cruz, he could be disqualified for not meeting Constitutional qualifications.

Nope, he's qualified. He's the son of a US citizen, which makes him a natural-born US citizen, no matter where in the world he was born.

[razorman]

19. If there is an indictment (Big IF), I think it will happen

before the conventions. That would give the party a better chance to choose a replacement. Assuming, of course that Mrs. Clinton steps aside if she is indicted. I'm not sure she would; since, as far as I know, there is no law or party rule that would require it.

[stonecutter357]

9. Goldwater set it up.

[earthside]

12. Arizona was part of the United States.

So, the Goldwater precedent doesn't apply to Cruz.

And to the previous response, this is not a constitutional citizenship issue, this is a presidential qualification question.

Has there ever been a serious suit filed over this part of the U.S. Constitution?
Cruz was born in Canada; so this is not spurious as in the case of the Obama birther fantasies.

Prof. Lawrence Tribe on Lawrence O'Donnell's show last night seemed to indicate that in the Cruz case, we may have a serious issue. Tribe also laid out the differences between Cruz and John McCain, who was born in the Panama Canal Zone.

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

Of course, there is the supreme irony in this situation ... a conservative like Cruz would in any other case be in favor of an "original intent" or "strict constructionist" interpretation of the Constitution, but for himself, he certainly is the lossey-goosey 'liberal', uh?

[thereismore]

13. If "some material was clearly classified at the time" but none of it was marked as such

at the time, I don't think there is any impropriety. Is there?

[winter is coming]

14. If the material was classified at the time, it should have been clearly labeled as such. n/t

[Abouttime]

15. It doesn't matter

Hillary will not be charged, she is too powerful to take down. The whole reason she used a private server was to keep the Clinton Foundation and SOS communications under her control, she is one smart woman. Hillary knew very well that Congress would want a close look at what she had been up to while Secretary of State and if she used a government server all of it would be there for the Republicans to comb through. With a private server they only get to see what she allows them to see.
The powers that reside in DC and Wall Street have long made up their minds that Hillary will be our next President, I support Bernie but his valiant run will come to an end after Super Tuesday.
The fix is in. The republicans have no candidate and zero chance of winning the presidency, Trump is a sideshow, Cruz is unelectable and Rubio has more baggage than the cargo hold of a 747.
Rubio will most likely win the nomination, pick a female running mate then the shoes will start dropping, money troubles, shady dealings, girlfriends etc...by the time the Clintons are done with little Marco his political career will be over, he will go down as one of the biggest busts in the history of American politics, he will slink off the national stage in disgrace, his professional life finished in his mid forties.
The Clintons have too much power to let this last opportunity get away from them, the FBI investigation will drag along until after she is elected then nothing more will be heard about it, Hillary will be too busy making history and returning favors. I'm afraid it's a done deal folks.

[senz]

16. Sloppy and irresponsible. Lack of respect for the government she supposedly "served."

I do not want this in a president.