Hillary Email Scandal: Two Smoking Guns Found In Latest Batch
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
National Security: When a scandal involves a Democrat, the mainstream media always insist on a smoking gun before they take it seriously. Well, how about two of them — so far?
Chuck Todd, host of NBC's "Meet the Press," said this week that "there is no evidence to suggest that that story doesn't hold up."
"That story" he was referring to is the one Hillary Clinton is now using to defend herself against claims that she mishandled classified information on her home-brew email server while secretary of state. Clinton claims she never "knowingly" received or sent classified material.
Leave aside the fact that the law does not allow ignorance as a defense — gross negligence is enough. The fact is that despite what Todd and others in the mainstream press want to believe, the latest tranche of Clinton emails released by the State Department show that she:
Wrote and sent classified material.
In October 2009, Clinton sent an email to former Sen. George Mitchell, whom Obama had named as a special peace envoy to the Middle East. The entire note, after "George," is blacked out.
In November 2009, Clinton sent an email to her pal Sidney Blumenthal. In response to his email asking "how did it go in Berlin?" Clinton writes back: "Berlin was terrific. Lots of good exchanges w leaders." The entire rest of the email is blacked out.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that it found six emails, so far, that Clinton wrote and sent that contained such classified information.
And, as the Post noted, the classification marks make clear that the information in these messages was classified "at birth," whether marked or not, because it contained "foreign government information" and "foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources."
Solicited classified material be sent to her email.
On at least two occasions, Clinton asked that classified information be sent to her personal account.
In a July 2010 email to Mitchell, Clinton wanted to know about his meeting with the Italian foreign minister, and told him to reply to her personal email account. In it, Clinton berates Sullivan for not sending her information that he told her was "on the classified system." "It's a public statement!" she responds. "Just email it."
Sullivan meekly replies that "there is no physical way for me to email it. I can't even access it."
Clinton can't claim ignorance of the law in these cases. As secretary of state, she was one of the few in government who had the authority to classify information in the first place. And as such, she had to undergo "mandatory training at least once within a calendar year" or have her "classification authority suspended," according to an executive order issued by President Obama.
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