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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This email passed through HRC unsecured server twice. [View all]leveymg
(36,418 posts)44. Yes, that was reported last August. File labeled as unclassified was “TOP SECRET//SI//TK//NOFORN”
The Spy Satellite Secrets in Hillarys Emails
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/12/the-spy-satellite-secrets-in-hillary-s-emails.html
These werent just ordinary secrets found in Clintons private server, but some of the most classified material the U.S. government has.
After months of denials and delaying actions, Hillary Clinton has decided to turn over her private email server to the Department of Justice. As this controversy has grown since the spring, Clinton and her campaign operatives have repeatedly denied that she had placed classified information in her personal email while serving as secretary of state during President Obamas first term. (I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received, she said last month.) Her team also denied that she would ever hand over her server to investigators. Now both those assertions have been overturned.
Hillary Clinton has little choice but to hand over her server to authorities since it now appears increasingly likely that someone on her staff violated federal laws regarding the handling of classified materials. On August 11, after extensive investigation, the intelligence communitys inspector general reported to Congress that it had found several violations of security policy in Clintons personal emails.
Most seriously, the inspector general assessed that Clintons emails included information that was highly classifiedyet mislabeled as unclassified. Worse, the information in question should have been classified up to the level of TOP SECRET//SI//TK//NOFORN, according to the inspector generals report.
TOP SECRET, as the name implies, is the highest official classification level in the U.S. government, defined as information whose unauthorized release could cause exceptionally grave damage to national security or foreign relations.
SI refers to Special Intelligence, meaning it is information derived from intercepted communications, which is the business of the National Security Agency, Americas single biggest source of intelligence. Theyre the guys who eavesdrop on phone calls, map whos calling whom, and comb through emails. SI is a subset of what the intelligence community calls Sensitive Compartmented Information, or SCI. And these materials always require special handling and protection. They are to be kept in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, which is a special hardened room that is safe from both physical and electronic intrusion.
TK refers to Talent Keyhole, which is an intelligence community caveat indicating that the classified material was obtained via satellite.
NOFORN, as the name implies, means that the materials can only be shown to Americans, not to foreigners.
In short: Information at the TOP SECRET//SI//TK//NOFORN level is considered exceptionally highly classified and must be handled with great care under penalty of serious consequences for mishandling. Every person who is cleared and read on for access to such information signs reams of paperwork and receives detailed training about how it is to be handled, no exceptionsand what the consequences will be if the rules are not followed.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/12/the-spy-satellite-secrets-in-hillary-s-emails.html
These werent just ordinary secrets found in Clintons private server, but some of the most classified material the U.S. government has.
After months of denials and delaying actions, Hillary Clinton has decided to turn over her private email server to the Department of Justice. As this controversy has grown since the spring, Clinton and her campaign operatives have repeatedly denied that she had placed classified information in her personal email while serving as secretary of state during President Obamas first term. (I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received, she said last month.) Her team also denied that she would ever hand over her server to investigators. Now both those assertions have been overturned.
Hillary Clinton has little choice but to hand over her server to authorities since it now appears increasingly likely that someone on her staff violated federal laws regarding the handling of classified materials. On August 11, after extensive investigation, the intelligence communitys inspector general reported to Congress that it had found several violations of security policy in Clintons personal emails.
Most seriously, the inspector general assessed that Clintons emails included information that was highly classifiedyet mislabeled as unclassified. Worse, the information in question should have been classified up to the level of TOP SECRET//SI//TK//NOFORN, according to the inspector generals report.
TOP SECRET, as the name implies, is the highest official classification level in the U.S. government, defined as information whose unauthorized release could cause exceptionally grave damage to national security or foreign relations.
SI refers to Special Intelligence, meaning it is information derived from intercepted communications, which is the business of the National Security Agency, Americas single biggest source of intelligence. Theyre the guys who eavesdrop on phone calls, map whos calling whom, and comb through emails. SI is a subset of what the intelligence community calls Sensitive Compartmented Information, or SCI. And these materials always require special handling and protection. They are to be kept in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, which is a special hardened room that is safe from both physical and electronic intrusion.
TK refers to Talent Keyhole, which is an intelligence community caveat indicating that the classified material was obtained via satellite.
NOFORN, as the name implies, means that the materials can only be shown to Americans, not to foreigners.
In short: Information at the TOP SECRET//SI//TK//NOFORN level is considered exceptionally highly classified and must be handled with great care under penalty of serious consequences for mishandling. Every person who is cleared and read on for access to such information signs reams of paperwork and receives detailed training about how it is to be handled, no exceptionsand what the consequences will be if the rules are not followed.
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Raises the question of the sources and methods used to gather this "confidential"
leveymg
May 2016
#1
Yes, that was reported last August. File labeled as unclassified was “TOP SECRET//SI//TK//NOFORN”
leveymg
May 2016
#44
So sickening. No wonder the delight over the (gruesome) end of Qaddafi that was displayed in that
bjo59
May 2016
#3
So what, she's just discussing how to get her hands on some gold. Big deal.
Major Hogwash
May 2016
#6
Reads like that Nigerian prince spam that asks for your ssn and money.
Baitball Blogger
May 2016
#17
Gee, if I was running a keyword search of IP addresses, clintonemail.com wouldn't interest me
leveymg
May 2016
#46
Hopefully, none of these emails were in clear text, that they were encrypted payloads.
TheBlackAdder
May 2016
#24
It's not the facts that are as sensitive as how the info was collected and by whom (HUMINT)
leveymg
May 2016
#47
There's the backstory of no-bid State Dept contracts with Blackwater/Xe that Osprey was angling for
leveymg
May 2016
#49
Blumenthal, Davis, and Bennett Ratcliff were all selling clients their connection to Clinton
MisterP
May 2016
#63
This goes to the unfettered access of Blumenthal to the Clintons. See link below.
EndElectoral
May 2016
#45
Still don't care. This was a wikileaks exposure after the fact. Still nothiing marked
Jitter65
May 2016
#72