State Department: 150 New Classified Emails Found in Clinton's Email System

We're going to need a bigger SCIF.

About 150 messages in a soon-to-be released trove of Hillary Clinton emails are being censored because they contain information now considered classified, according to the State Department.

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[T]he sheer number of emails that have been redacted stands as the latest example of how much sensitive material was contained in Clinton's email transactions.

This piece by Malia Zimmerman is even more interesting -- now how exactly did those classified emails get into Clinton's private system?

The daily revelations over classified information finding its way onto Hillary Clinton's personal email server are raising perplexing questions for former government officials who wonder how classified information made its way onto the former secretary of state's non-classified server -- especially since the two systems are not connected.

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So if the Clinton denial is to be believed, individuals in her inner circle would have simply typed or scanned classified information into a non-classified system without regard for its contents. In this case, emails would have started in, and stayed in, the unclassified system -- albeit improperly, based on the findings of the intelligence inspector general.

But if it turns out emails literally jumped from the classified to the non-classified system -- something the State Department claims cannot happen -- it would seem to point to Clinton's staff going to great lengths to create a work-around to do so.

A government employee doing so would commit numerous felonies, according to Bradford Higgins, who served as assistant secretary of state for resource management and chief financial officer from 2006-2009. "A violation, in addition to criminal charges and potential prosecution, would likely mean that person who committed the breach would never again be given a security clearance," Higgins said.

Hillary could explain this to investigators, but of course, criminals have no interest in assisting the police.

posted by Ace at 04:18 PM

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