From Politico: Key Clinton emails did not contain highly classified secrets, inquiry finds

[msrizzo]

So can we finally put it to rest? My guess is no, certainly the Republicans will continue to pound Hillary on this. But I think it's time that Democrats stop. On the other hand, it is Politico so....


"The U.S. intelligence community has retreated from claims that two emails in Hillary Clinton’s private account contained top secret information, a source familiar with the situation told POLITICO.

The determination came from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s office and concluded that the two emails did not include highly classified intelligence secrets. Concerns about the emails' classification helped trigger an on-going FBI inquiry into Clinton's private email set-up."


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/hillary-clinton-email-no-highly-classified-215599#ixzz3qk1TMS3t

[randys1]

1. Is she still a viable candidate? Yes? Then NO, not time to put it to rest.

[HassleCat]

2. That about wraps it up

The interesting thing here is that nobody ever claimed Clinton's server had emails that were marked as classified material. The claim is that they were sent to her not marked as classified, but she should have known they were classified because of where they came from. Now even that claim seems to be going nowhere. The FBI can put this to bed in a couple weeks. If they want to. I guess Gowdy and his Happy Henchmen will continue on their merry way, but even Fox News is bored with their failure to dig up dirt on Clinton.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Is that the same Clpper who told said he gave the "least untruthful" answeres to congress?

[still_one]

4. first Obama rejecting the Keystone, then no classified secrets in the email

The record of some in predicting what will surely happen is worse than the flip of a coin

[Armstead]

9. Maybe the public pressure had something to do with Keystone? Plus....

the company pulled themselves out of contention and withdrew their application(at least until after the election). So it a safe move to reject it now.

[still_one]

16. tcp pulled out because they knew the Obama administration was going to reject it, and were hoping

By doing so that would effectively stop any action until the next administration. TCP thought by pulling out Obama wouldn't act on it, but instead decided to act on it to make a very clear statement about global warming

As to your suspicion that public pressure had something to do with it, not likely. The country is very divided on this issue. In Addition it was Obama who some time ago rejected rubber stamping it without environmental impact studies. At that time the polls indicated the public favored it

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/15/politics/poll-majority-of-americans-back-keystone-pipeline/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-post-abc-news-poll-keystone-xl-project-overwhelmingly-favored-by-americans/2014/03/06/d74c58c6-a4a1-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html


This will be an election issue,

[msrizzo]

5. For the record....

I really want this to be true, but hey it's Politico.

[BlueCheese]

6. Holy heck, really?

If this is true, that is a major, major torpedo to the already sinking email non-scandal. This was the supposed claim that has been repeatedly used to justify this wild goose chase.

If this were Iran-Contra (which it isn't), it would be like finding out months into it that there's no such country called Iran.

[Gothmog]

7. This is great news for the Clinton campaign

[mcar]

8. K&R

[Armstead]

10. As Bernie supporter I'm happy about that. Was a stupid distraction

[riversedge]

13. Thank you Armstead.

[Walk away]

11. That makes anyone who tried to use the emails to attack Hillary look like a complete.....

asshole!!!!! It's always a good day when republicans (and people who think like them) are shown up for what they really are!
Timing is everything!

[jeff47]

12. Sure, we can put it to rest as long as we can't count to 4.

The two emails are part of a set of four emails McCullough's investigators flagged after obtaining access earlier this year to a sample of 40 emails among the 30,000 Clinton stored on a private server and provided to her former agency last December. "My office's limited sampling of 40 of the emails revealed four contained classified [intelligence community] information that should have been marked and handled at the SECRET level," McCullough wrote to lawmakers on July 23.

[Segami]

15. My, my.....

its amazing how many hypocrites aren't complaining that the story source came from Politico....

[moobu2]

14. Kicking this for a "we told you" moment.

[DesertRat]

17. k&r