Having spent quite a few years of my life dealing with classified information, both in the Military and as a cleared contractor..
I KNOW she lied her @ss off!!
I don't know how the media keeps missing this vital point I'm about to make.
Classified "headers" mean nothing, except that they declare what the highest level of classification is contained in the report.. it's the PARAGRAPHS contained in the intelligence report that are INDIVIDUALLY Classified (eg: (C) for Confidential, (S) for secret, or (TS) for Top Secret, usually with additional caveats like SI, ORCON.. etc.)
EVERY paragraph has to have a classification because one paragraph may contain more sensitive information than another. If it's unclassified, you see a (U) at the front of the paragraph, or sometimes SBU (sensitive, but unclassified).. The highest classified paragraph, OR the SOURCE of the information determines the overall classification of the report.
IF you download classified information from a segregated classified computer network, and "break" the "Air Wall" by uploading it into an unclassified (private server in this case), you've demonstrated direct INTENT.
That (C), or (S) doesn't just get there in Hillary's email.. It had to be copy/pasted into her email. Which meant SOMEONE uploaded (or retyped) that paragraph from a classified message.
This is what is pissing me off about her lies. Believe me.. it's a pain in the ass when I need information from the Confidential network to the Secret (SIPR), I either had to take a disk or thumb drive to our system administrator to have it uploaded onto the next higher classification network. If you had Secret info on the TS (JWICS) network, it was even MORE of a pain in the @ss to get permission to transfer it to a lower classification network.
I was constantly being requested to make classified information available to our coalition allies in Iraq, which usually meant obtaining Originator Control (ORCON) permission to make it "releasable REL/UK/AUS.. etc"
It was even worse when the majority of our human intelligence reports were Secret/NOFORN (no foreigners) because the source was automatically classified at that level, even though the information being reported was Confidential, or SBU.. or merely Secret (therefore eligible for releasability to authorized foreign partners.
Someone copy and pasted classified information downloaded from a classified network, and then uploaded it to her unclassified computer to generate those emails.
And that doesn't just happen through negligence or human error. It's intentional.
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