The Hillary Clinton flacks were out in force this morning pushing the bullshit line that allegations that she trafficked in classified material is not a big deal because agencies can’t agree among themselves what is classified. In fact, to paraphrase Paul Begala, one man’s classified material is another woman’s lunch order. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Nonsense!!! While the Clinton crowd wants you to believe that Hillary is a victim of over classification, both the CIA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency are confirming that Hillary had info on her unclassified server and in her email traffic that ORIGINATED with each of those agencies. This is huge.
Here’s the NY Times account:
A special intelligence review of two emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account — including one about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program — has endorsed a finding by the inspector general for the intelligence agencies that the emails contained highly classified information when Mrs. Clinton received them, senior intelligence officials said.
Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign and the State Department disputed the inspector general’s finding last month and questioned whether the emails had been overclassified by an arbitrary process. But the special review — by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency aka NGIA — concluded that the emails were “Top Secret,” the highest classification of government intelligence, when they were sent to Mrs. Clinton in 2009 and 2011.
Let me explain this in detail. We are dealing with two different types of classified information. The CIA only produces intelligence from human sources–it can be from “liaison” (which means it comes from the intelligence service of some other country) or it comes from a human being who has agreed to spy for us or it comes from the senior CIA official overseas–aka Chief of Station–providing his assessment of a situation. It if is classified Top Secret then you now you are dealing with very sensitive, very close hold information.
The NGIA information is satellite photography/imagery. The system used to gather that information helps determine the classification.
There is one simple fact for both agencies–the information they originated is marked ORCON, which stands for Originator Controlled. ORCON means the entity that “created” or “originated” the info has the final say (aka control) over how that information is disseminated and used.
The Hillary crew can split hairs all daylong over the CIA info and insist that it was classified in an arbitrary manner. But that won’t fly with the imagery from NGIA. That material clearly came in over a TS computer network and was physically transferred to her unclassified server. This is not a case of simple confusion about what was and was not classified. This was a deliberate act to create a communication channel that operated outside of the State Department .gov or .sgov channels, which were subject to the requirement to preserve those emails as a permanent archived record. When a citizen or interest group submitted a Freedom of Information Act request those records should have been available to be searched. Hillary set up a system to circumvent and frustrate the FOIA process.
She cannot admit to what she has done without creating legal jeopardy for herself. But that may be a moot point. As the FBI investigation proceeds and the underlings who carried out her policy come under pressure to cooperate or go to jail, the net will close on her.
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