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In reply to the discussion: Emails in Clinton Probe Dealt With Planned Drone Strikes [View all]ancianita
(43,415 posts)5 million of the rest of Americans who only have various under-levels of security clearances.
Kill list communications cut across agencies on a regular basis. Every week, 100 members of the national security apparatus look at it together, with Brennan advising Obama, who makes any final, "institutionally validated" decision.
You'd think that where even top secret classifieds get routed that techies should be more closely monitoring the participants send and end point addresses, not just wait until one presidential candidate. Remember, Hillary was retired for over a year and during that time, nothing at all came up from any agency.
The president's private military and intelligence agency came more directly under State Department and "diplomatic cover" under the Defense Clandestine Service formed in 2012, in which a clandestine corps of 1600 "collectors" would work as diplomats, who knew nothing about diplomacy.
Of course none of us knew about any of that then. Most of us don't now.