US: Up to 305 Clinton emails might have classified data

[webfact]

US: Up to 305 Clinton emails might have classified data
STEPHEN BRAUN, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department review of Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails so far has found as many as 305 messages that could contain classified information and require further scrutiny by federal agencies, the department said Monday.

In a court filing that was part of a lawsuit against the State Department, officials told a federal judge in Washington they would be able to meet an existing schedule to release copies of Clinton's emails because only about 5 percent of the messages reviewed so far contain possible secret information that could hold them back for further analysis. The agency said those 305 emails with potential classified data were among more than 1,500 documents analyzed so far.

The filing came after Clinton said in an Iowa radio interview that during her stint as secretary of state in the Obama administration, she had never sent or received any emails on her private server that had information clearly marked classified. Republican critics have warned that Clinton may have compromised national security by sending and receiving messages that contained secret information, but she has sloughed off the criticism, saying she followed security guidelines and is the one who made the previously withheld emails available to the American public.

"If I had not asked for my emails all to be made public, none of this would have been in the public arena," she said in the interview, recorded last Friday. But The Associated Press and other news organizations had sought copies of Clinton's emails under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act for years.

The email controversy has proven a major distraction for Clinton as she campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. Republicans hope it will cause voters to view her as untrustworthy. It has also left an opening for her rivals in the Democratic race, including her main challenger Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. If Clinton seems vulnerable that might lead other candidates such as Vice President Joe Biden to enter the race.

The AP was first to identify Clinton's private email server and trace it in March to her family's home in New York. The server was surrendered to the FBI last week, months after Clinton said it was her personal property and wouldn't be turned over.

Clinton said in March that she had exchanged about 60,000 emails during her four years in the Obama administration, about half of which were personal and deleted. She turned over the others to the State Department, which is reviewing and releasing them on a monthly basis. Clinton campaign officials did not respond Monday to an emailed request for comment about the court filing about her correspondence.

The State Department has censored some of Clinton's emails for national security reasons before they were publicly released. The government blacked-out all or parts of those messages under a provision of the Freedom of Information Act intended to protect material that had been deemed and properly classified for purposes of national defense or foreign policy.

Last month, the inspector general for the State Department warned that some of the information that passed through Clinton's home-based private server was classified information produced by the U.S. intelligence community. It's generally not possible to forward or cut-and-paste an email marked classified to a private account because classified email systems are closed to outsiders. But it can be illegal to paraphrase or retype classified information from a secure email into an unprotected message sent to a personal address.

The State Department acknowledgement that 305 Clinton emails were being reviewed for possible national security concerns came as part of legal sparring in a lawsuit against the agency by journalist Jason Leopold, a reporter with Vice News. In January, Leopold sued the agency to quickly produce Clinton emails and other documents that were sought under a freedom of information request dating back to 2014.

Leopold's case is one of several pending against the State Department for Clinton records. The AP also sued the agency this year for failing to turn over copies of emails and other documents since mid-2013 and in one case, back to 2010. In both cases, U.S. district court judges have pressed the State Department to produce records on a firm schedule.

But Leopold's lawyers have raised concerns that the intelligence review of Clinton's emails has bogged down the schedule of release ordered previously by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras. Leopold's lawyer said the department missed its July target by more than 1,000 pages of emails, in part because of screening by five intelligence agencies.

State Department lawyers said that despite the growing number of Clinton emails that will have to be forwarded to intelligence agencies for review, the government was confident that the low number — 5.1 percent of the total — would not slow down public release of the emails.
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Associated Press writer Bradley Klapper contributed to this report.


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-08-18

[TheAppletons]

"If I had not asked for my emails all to be made public, none of this would have been in the public arena," she said in the interview, recorded last Friday.

No, if you had not breached security protocols and broken the law then none of this would have been in the public arena.

There is apparently no limit to her arrogance.

[CMHomeboy78]

"If I had not asked for my emails all to be made public, none of this would have been in the public arena," she said in the interview, recorded last Friday.

No, if you had not breached security protocols and broken the law then none of this would have been in the public arena.

There is apparently no limit to her arrogance.

She's toast... maybe, I hope so anyway.

[Usernames]

The filing came after Clinton said in an Iowa radio interview that during her stint as secretary of state in the Obama administration, she had never sent or received any emails on her private server that had information clearly marked classified.

So, how do the Clintons define "clearly marked?' Watch out for these weasels.

[puukao]

OLLEH YM EMAN SI YRALLIH

********

type 1 if you understand...

*****CLASSIFIED....TOP SECRET...*******

this is the best and brightest...

best of the best...

top of the heap...

gods to us minions...

Shepard to us sheep...

[CMHomeboy78]

The filing came after Clinton said in an Iowa radio interview that during her stint as secretary of state in the Obama administration, she had never sent or received any emails on her private server that had information clearly marked classified.

So, how do the Clintons define "clearly marked?' Watch out for these weasels.

How true.

In all their years of high crimes and misdemeanors these slimebags have never had anything proven against them... talk about gaming the system.

[slapout]

There is someone out there who knows where the skelations are and how to get the info needed to bring charges of some kind up. It might be that it takes a real nut breaker to get the info, but it will happen eventually. They are too full of themselves to be able to help the USA's government or the majjority of its population. Except of cou5rse, by retireing from politics and doing speeches on what the world needs to make it right (in their eyes, opinion)

[sdanielmcev]

That vast right wing conspiracy made her do it. What is really bad are the people, in light of the mounting evidence, are still supporting her.

[Asiantravel]

Edited August 18, 2015 by Asiantravel

[Publicus]

"If I had not asked for my emails all to be made public, none of this would have been in the public arena," she said in the interview, recorded last Friday.

No, if you had not breached security protocols and broken the law then none of this would have been in the public arena.

There is apparently no limit to her arrogance.

if you had not breached security protocols and broken the law

You're going to have to provide specific citations, to include the protocols and law(s) alleged to have been violated, the exact violations and each alleged instance, the exact breach and law, precise charges and each instance of same, punishments, remedies...the whole nine yards that do not exist.

Then you can forward all of it to a prosecutor of your case if you can fine either because neither exists. So you'll have to wait on that however because there isn't any prosecutor or case. Nor is there a grand jury. Nor is there a crime or a breach.

There certainly is no investigation of former SecState Clinton by the FBI or anyone else. Nothing criminal is alleged or is being investigated despite reports by well financed rightwing mass media that there was.

There is only the Republican and right wing decision to pursue their elusive election outcome by hook or by crook.

[Publicus]

That vast right wing conspiracy made her do it. What is really bad are the people, in light of the mounting evidence, are still supporting her.

Whatever it might be, it certainly is vast

The vast array of Trump troopers are on the march again.

Not every Trump trooper is posting to the thread, but a good number of 'em are here. A lot of easily recognisable rightwingers are here too. Showing all of the mounting evidence they have of high crimes and low misdemeanors.

There were Hogan's Heroes and now there are Trump's Troopers.

October 22nd former SecState Clinton will enter the lion's den of the Republican controlled US House of Representatives to meet the Ben Ghazi email tea party committee in a face to face partisan political brawl that will expose the lunar rightwing Republican committee and their desperate inquisition, so I'm looking forward to this unique television spectacular.

[orientalsf]

That vast right wing conspiracy made her do it. What is really bad are the people, in light of the mounting evidence, are still supporting her.

Whatever it might be, it certainly is vast

The vast array of Trump troopers are on the march again.

Not every Trump trooper is posting to the thread, but a good number of 'em are here. A lot of easily recognisable rightwingers are here too. Showing all of the mounting evidence they have of high crimes and low misdemeanors.

There were Hogan's Heroes and now there are Trump's Troopers.

October 22nd former SecState Clinton will enter the lion's den of the Republican controlled US House of Representatives to meet the Ben Ghazi email tea party committee in a face to face partisan political brawl that will expose the lunar rightwing Republican committee and their desperate inquisition, so I'm looking forward to this unique television spectacular.

It certainly can't be as fun as watching the Republican/Tea Party Debates.

[chuckd]

IMHO a much larger problem for Hillary is her server.

Her server was not approved by Defense Security Service to handle classified materials of any classification. The company had not obtained a facility clearance nor were their employees cleared to handle classified correspondence.

Another problem for her is the three thumb drives her attorney was holding. He, nor any of his employees, were likely to have been provided with security clearances and should not have had access to a classified item, such as a thumb drive holding classified documents.

This woman is in a world of hurt if the crime is pursued by an Obama appointed Attorney General. Therein lies her only likely source of salvation.

This out today:

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Hillarymail ‘Chain of Custody’ Request May Lead To Indictments

RICHARD POLLOCK

Reporter

10:27 PM 08/17/2015

Department of State officials refused to identify to a congressional committee the “chain of custody” – the complete list of people who had access to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s investigation.

The request was made last spring by the House Select Committee on Benghazi probing the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in which Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were murdered.

The chain of custody evidence is essential to determining if Clinton or people close to her violated federal laws on handling of classified materials.

In a private meeting earlier this year between the State Department, Clinton’s representative and Benghazi committee staff, the committee asked State to identify the “chain of custody” of people who “touched” or otherwise had access to Clinton’s email and to additional copies, according to a knowledgeable congressional source.

The materials were sought “in order to identify those persons who had touched them and then for us to determine who might have violated classified handling procedures. And we got nothing,” the source said.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/17/hillarymail-chain-of-custody-request-may-lead-to-indictments/#ixzz3jFczXhHD

[Walter Travolta]

What a self obsessed, pompous and arrogant witch she is. I even hate to look at her. That smug look as if she is perfect makes my p!ss boil! How anyone can even think of voting for her is mind boggling

[bartender100]

Fox News sticking the boot right in, every time I look they are on about her, but that short narrowed eyed twerp on The Five, is just pure evil

[Asiantravel]

it's too bizarre for words

that official records dealing with the everyday business of the United States of America was on a server kept in a bathroom closet

curiouser and curiouser said Alice

" The IT company Hilary Clinton chose to maintain her private email account was run from a loft apartment and its servers were housed in the bathroom closet…"

http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/18/hillarys-email-firm-literally-kept-its-servers-in-a-bathroom/