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In reply to the discussion: Emails Released Today Could Pose Serious Problems For Clinton Campaign, If Not For Clinton Herself [View all]AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)39. Hillary instructed an aide to remove headers on secure FAX and send it through nonsecure channels.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/265210-email-clinton-asked-adviser-to-send-secure-fax-by-email
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Relevant criminal statute in this case, 18 USC 793:
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If they cant, turn into nonpaper w/ no identifying heading and send nonsecure.
Thats an order to violate the laws handling classified material.
Thats an order to violate the laws handling classified material.
Relevant criminal statute in this case, 18 USC 793:
d) Whoever, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it; or
(e) Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it; or
(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense,
(1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or
(2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
(e) Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it; or
(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense,
(1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or
(2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
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Emails Released Today Could Pose Serious Problems For Clinton Campaign, If Not For Clinton Herself [View all]
Impedimentus
Feb 2016
OP
People need to keep up: she asked her staff to 'rework' documents so they could be sent via email
merbex
Feb 2016
#2
Absolutely - too many people here have no idea how classified material is handled and the ...
Impedimentus
Feb 2016
#6
You'd be toast and occupying government real estate in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
Impedimentus
Feb 2016
#23
Of course she won't, and I can't believe any democrat would want her to be! Good Lord! nt
BreakfastClub
Feb 2016
#76
And an attorney. It's so basic as to be laughably disingenuous that she claims "they weren't marked"
JudyM
Feb 2016
#20
Hillary instructed an aide to remove headers on secure FAX and send it through nonsecure channels.
AtomicKitten
Feb 2016
#39
"Hillary instructed an aide to remove headers on secure FAX and send it through nonsecure channels"
iAZZZo
Feb 2016
#63
She knew she couldn't legally declassify another agency's classified information.
leveymg
Feb 2016
#61
Has nothing to do with RW attack ads - you have no comprehension of how the system for handling
Impedimentus
Feb 2016
#9
One problem with Hillary's "explanation"... the TOP SECRET info found in her emails matches WORD FOR WORD...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Feb 2016
#74
No, they are not necessarily wrong. If you had a security clearance for that long than you know
Impedimentus
Feb 2016
#41