8 Cases Where Mishandling of Classified Information Went Unpunished
Do we really have “one set of laws in this country”? A review of 17 past examples of high-profile individuals who were never prosecuted suggests a clear double standard.
Do we really have “one set of laws in this country”? A review of 17 past examples of high-profile individuals who were never prosecuted suggests a clear double standard.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Sen. Angus King (I-ME) stated that the Biden administration should be more transparent about what knowledge they do and do not have about the objects shot down by the U.S. and it is
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) stated that only 1-5% of the material in the Senate’s classified briefing on the flying objects it received earlier in the
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kennedy,” House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA) stated that more information on China’s nefarious actions against Americans should be declassified so people understand what a threat China is and “corporate
CNN reporter Jamie Gangel said Monday on “The Situation Room” that reports that President Joe Biden had classified documents from his time as vice president in his personal office was a political gift to former president Donald Trump.
Taylor revealed that a staffer, David Holmes, overheard a phone call between the president and the ambassador to the EU that mentioned “investigations.”
President Donald Trump suggested Friday that it was “terrific” that the Department of Justice had caught senate aide James Wolfe leaking classified information to the media.
The far-left Washington Post is falsely claiming that the release of the James Comey memos “bolsters” the case that the disgraced former FBI director did not leak classified information. In reality, the exact opposite is true.
Lawlessness was the modus operandi of the Obama administration. If it felt a law stood in the way of its intentions, it ignored the law. Seems the Obama intelligence agencies learned this lesson well. In the critical matter of Hillary Clinton’s illegal email practices, the Director of National Intelligence simply ignored a directive requiring a damage assessment and a report.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made continued attempts to stamp out discussion of her mishandling of classified information during Wednesday night’s Commander in Chief Forum. But former U.S. Navy Lieutenant John Lester, who has held top secret clearance, challenged Clinton asking her how Americans can trust someone to lead as President when she “corrupted national security.”
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the FBI she “did not pay attention to the ‘level’ of classified information,” claiming she took it all seriously.
The House Intelligence Committee on Friday released the long-sought 28 classified pages of the 9/11 report on “intelligence community activities before and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001” which could implicate Saudi involvement in funding the Islamic terrorist hijackers.
After 14 years of secrecy, 28 pages of the Joint Congressional Committee’s 9/11 Report that were redacted during the George W. Bush Administration are expected to be released as early as Friday, CNN has revealed citing their sources.
Republican Platform committee member Maine State Senator Eric Brakey put forward an amendment in the National Security subcommittee to declassify 28 pages of 9/11 Commission report in the National Security subcommittee. He told Breitbart News that he consulted with and did so at the request of North Carolina congressman Walter Jones.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) downplayed the damage done by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s mis-handling of classified information on her private email server, as FBI director James Comey testified at the House Oversight Committee on Thursday.
Hillary Clinton exchanged the names of CIA-protected U.S. intelligence sources on her non-secure private email account.
The White House is defending President Obama’s remarks concerning Hillary Clinton’s insecure exchange of classified information, when he suggested that the term “classified” was a subject of debate.
Another of Hillary Clinton’s talking points bites the dust, and it’s the Washington Post that shoots it down, with an analysis that found Clinton herself was the author of 104 of the classified emails on her server.
President Obama said his golf scores were classified, after a reporter asked during his press conference if he enjoyed his trip to the exclusive PGA West course in California.
A notably irritated U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras is rejecting the State Department’s attempt to delay production of the remaining Hillary Clinton emails. Thursday found the judge ordering State to release four more batches of emails on February 13, 19, 26, and 29.
This week’s Friday afternoon news drop was a blockbuster for Hillary Clinton, with revelations that some of her emails contained information so sensitive they cannot be released to the public at all.
Former NSA analyst John Schindler argues at the Observer that Hillary Clinton’s latest email dump might have contained an even bigger bombshell than the message where she ordered aides to turn a sensitive faxed document into “nonpaper with no identifying heading and send nonsecure.”
The title given to Michael Isikoff’s piece is “Benghazi Committee, Under Fire, Releases More Clinton Emails,” but the big news is right up front, in the first few paragraphs: Hillary Clinton carelessly exposed a top CIA human intelligence asset in Libya, in an email sent through her unsecure private mail server.
Not only has Datto surrendered equipment to the FBI, but they’ve also stated that they warned Hillary Clinton’s computer company, Platte River Networks, that her server was vulnerable to hackers… and they say their warnings were disregarded, because FBI investigators ordered that the system should not be altered in any way.
The FBI seized four servers from the State Department building a few weeks ago as part of the investigation into classified material improperly stored on Hillary Clinton’s secret email server, particularly the Top Secret documents that have been discovered in her email trove.
Many of the documents in this new release were “born classified,” under a presidential order that treats all foreign government information as confidential by default – a protocol Hillary Clinton was thoroughly instructed on, and would have been re-briefed on several times during her tenure as Secretary of State. One very good reason for the “born classified” rule is that the U.S. government doesn’t want foreign officials to be reluctant to share such information.
Production of the film Zero Dark Thirty, which chronicled the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the Navy SEAL raid that killed him in 2011, has long been controversial. Now a Zero Dark Thirty controversy is being brought to light by newly-released documents: the filmmakers were nearly prosecuted for bribing some of the CIA officials with whom they worked.
The New York Times reports that a second intelligence-community review endorses the Inspector General’s findings, and confirmed the presence of classified material on Hillary Clinton’s off-the-books email server, including multiple “Top Secret” documents.
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden held forth on Hillary Clinton’s email scandal during an interview with Al-Jazeera on Thursday.
Ed Henry of Fox News reported that the number of Hillary Clinton emails in the new release has increased to 7,000, while the number of messages that had to be redacted to protect classified material is more than double what was expected. (The report is slightly confusing on this point, because Henry later suggests there are 150 more classified emails in addition to 63 that were already expected.)
Another one of Hillary Clinton’s false talking points collapses, as Reuters examines what it describes as “dozens” of her emails and finds they contain information that was classified from the moment the information was generated… meaning that, despite Clinton’s repeated statements to the contrary, they were “born classified” — classified on the day she received them.
Former employees point out that Platte River did nothing wrong by accepting the work from Clinton, which they tried to keep quiet, and handled to the best of their ability. It was Hillary Clinton’s legal responsibility to ensure that classified information was properly handled; given that she’s been lying about it for so long to everyone else, it’s quite possible that she never told Platte River about it.
Senator Grassley asks a few less obvious, but very interesting, questions beyond the basics. For example, he asks a straightforward question that the Administration has thus far been reluctant to answer: does Hillary Clinton still have an active security clearance?
It will make months to examine everything Clinton handed over – not least because she provided the messages on paper, although now that the discovery of Top Secret material finally prompted the FBI to seize the thumb drive she gave her lawyer David Kendall, perhaps a speedier review will be possible.
Needless to say, no one as irresponsible, arrogant, and untrustworthy as Hillary Clinton has proven herself to be should be permitted anywhere near classified information ever again, especially given the patently false story her campaign drones are still pushing that she did all this for the mere “convenience” of not carrying two portable email devices.
This is one of the most famous women in Washington – once a celebrated rising star, groomed to be Hillary’s Mini-Me, a duchess in the Clinton royal court, subject of a hundred fawning profiles in political and pop-culture magazines – and the Obama Administration claims it could not successfully send her a letter.
The FBI finally took custody of Hillary Clinton’s email server late Wednesday afternoon, about six months after they would have moved against anyone who isn’t Democrat royalty.
Clinton’s old denials about never handling classified material are now half-forgotten lies; instead, the Obama Administration scrambled to classify many of the emails dumped on Friday – not at all voluntarily, mind you, but in response to court orders.