Harris Workers Saw 'Classified' Document

[The Straight Story]

Harris Workers Saw 'Classified' Document


By KEITH EPSTEIN The Tampa Tribune

Published: Aug 5, 2006

WASHINGTON - A document at the center of Rep. Katherine Harris' efforts to secure a $10 million defense contract for a big campaign donor has been seen by three of her employees - despite Harris' claims it cannot be made public because it is "classified."

Former campaign manager Glenn Hodas said he was one of the three, and that none of them had security clearance, raising a question about whether the Longboat Key congresswoman is freer to share the document than she asserts - or whether she impermissibly allowed advisers access to sensitive government secrets.

"We were all set to release it. Her lawyer said OK. But then she said, 'Oh, we can't - it's classified,'" Hodas, Harris' third and most recent campaign manager, recalled Thursday.

Hodas quit in mid-July after discovering Harris had received a grand jury subpoena for campaign e-mail and documents relating to defense contractor Mitchell J. Wade and his company MZM Inc., and withheld the fact from him.

http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBDXXPFHQE.html

A document at the center of Rep. Katherine Harris' efforts to secure a $10 million defense contract for a big campaign donor has been seen by three of her employees

Why would this be a classified document??

[rzemanfl]

1. I posted this yesterday in LBN linked to tbo.com article and it

got moved to GD. Jusy sayin'...

[The Straight Story]

2. Hmm do they ever move anything from GD to LBN? :) (nt)

[OKNancy]

7. LOL - this one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1823155


More bullshit from the Katherine Harris campaign:
http://news.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBB377XGQE.html

That "classified" information doesn't sound too classified...

A lying machine attached to two fake boobs.

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I think it was moved because of the subject line.

[rzemanfl]

8. Subject line is no reason. In BushWorld all news is bullshit. n/t

[alfredo]

3. If it is embarrassing or illegal, they classify it.

[sam sarrha]

4. there's a specific legal process for classification, u cant just say it is

and it costs the government $448 a page to do it.. and consider that the white house classifies..EVERYTHING ..even the dinner menu, that is just f'n paranoia.

[formercia]

9. I used to just stamp the document

with the appropriate classification and write my badge number in the space provided...I didn't think a few microliters of red ink was that expensive.

The new Fearless Leader cost-saving agenda......

[sam sarrha]

11. i am talking about a potential court document being denied to the court

because the defendant who obviously committed a crime says it is classified to protect her sorry despicable ass, she doesn't have a badge number...

[formercia]

13. I was just trying to point out how easy it is

Anyone with the authority to classify documents can arbitrarily do so based on their judgement. I doubt if Harris has the authority to do so.

[sam sarrha]

14. what i said

[formercia]

15. Ditto

:evilgrin:

[mom cat]

5. Dear Katherine...

Don't bother to host a victory party. You will need the money for your defense fund. :rofl:

[sam sarrha]

12. she is such an amature... and a fake... both of them

[unblock]

6. yes, they've "classified" it "do not show to the press"

"classified" -- as what and by whom?

[Ian David]

10. If I ever forget my license and registration when a cop pulls me over...

can I just say, "You can't see it... it's 'classified,' and so is that open container of alcohol."

Besides, when I got my driver's license, I attached a signing statement saying I could violate certain motor vehicle laws in the interests of National Security.