http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/hillary-wrote-and-sent-over-100-classified-emails-from-her-home-serverWhile secretary of state, Hillary Clinton authored 104 emails that she sent using her private, unsecure, homebrew server that contained classified information.
The analysis – by The Washington Post – does not include, of course, the tens of thousands of e-mails that she destroyed rather than turn over to the FBI for analysis.
In 75 percent of the emails, the material that Clinton herself wrote in the body of the email was classified. The rest is largely “forwards” or “replies” containing the classified information.
The Post also found that the “practice of using non-secure email systems to send sensitive information was widespread at the department and elsewhere in government.”
The 104 emails that Clinton authored is among the more than 2,000 in Hillary’s “stack” that the State Department determined contained classified information. Their analysis does not include 22 emails that State withheld entirely because the material was “top secret.”
Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said the large number of people who sent and received emails that were declared classified was a sign of “overclassification run amok, and indicates that our system for determining what ought to be classified is broken.”
Regarding Clinton’s role in writing 104 of the emails, Fallon said the classification determinations “were after-the-fact . . . for the purposes of preparing these emails for release publicly.”
“It does not mean the material was classified when it was sent or received,” he said.
Of course, Hillary’s story keeps changing. When it was first revealed she had a private server, she said “I did not email any classified material to anyone.” Then she changed her tune adding the caveat “… at the time they were sent or received.”
But federal law requires senders of classified e-mail to properly mark it themselves.
It’s a hole big enough to drive a truck through. When Hillary sent an unsecure e-mail detailing the whereabouts of murdered Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens, she wrote the email but didn’t mark it classified.
The Post detailed some of the examples they found:
For example, Clinton wrote an email in July 2012 to Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and other top department officials with the subject line “Agrement [sic] for Egypt.” The email includes a short paragraph that has been entirely redacted by the State Department followed by one line from Clinton: “What’s the status?”
In another instance, Clinton engaged in an exchange with top aide Jacob Sullivan on June 7, 2012, all of which has been redacted and classified as “secret,” one of a few dozen messages to receive that higher-level designation from the State Department. The only indication of the exchange’s topic is the subject line: “Khar–where we are.” Earlier that week, Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar had requested that the United States apologize for the death of 24 Pakistani troops in a NATO airstrike.
Last week, the staffer who set up Clinton’s email server was granted immunity from prosecution to provide an interview with investigators.
