I didn't see anyone posting about the latest developments.
Let's start here.
A federal judge says Hillary Clinton didn't comply with government policies whenshe used a private server for her email account as secretary of state.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, in a hearing Thursday for a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the State Department, determined Hillary Clinton's server and thumb drive would now be implicated in the many FOIA suits entangled in the larger controversy surrounding Clinton's email system.
"We wouldn't be here today if the employee had followed government policy," Sullivan said Thursday, in an apparent reference to Clinton's email protocol.
So both the email server and the thumbdrive that her lawyer had are now in FBI custody.
The e-mail server used by Hillary Rodham Clinton when she served as secretary of state was turned over to the FBI late Wednesday afternoon from a private data center in New Jersey, according to an attorney familiar with the transfer.
“It was picked up about 4 p.m.,” said Barbara J. Wells, a Denver lawyer who represents Platte River Networks Inc., a small computer services firm that has managed the Clintons’ private e-mail system since mid-2013.
From Reuters.
The new stamps indicate that some of Clinton's emails from her time as the nation's most senior diplomat are filled with a type of information the U.S. government and the department's own regulations automatically deems classified from the get-go — regardless of whether it is already marked that way or not.
In the small fraction of emails made public so far, Reuters has found at least 30 email threads from 2009, representing scores of individual emails, that include what the State Department's own "Classified" stamps now identify as so-called 'foreign government information.' The U.S. government defines this as any information, written or spoken, provided in confidence to U.S. officials by their foreign counterparts.
This sort of information, which the department says Clinton both sent and received in her emails, is the only kind that must be "presumed" classified, in part to protect national security and the integrity of diplomatic interactions, according to U.S. regulations examined by Reuters.
"It's born classified," said J. William Leonard, a former director of the U.S. government's Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO). Leonard was director of ISOO, part of the White House's National Archives and Records Administration, from 2002 until 2008, and worked for both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.
So now, it's time to see what the FBI can reconstruct as the email server has now been scrubbed.
Confirmation that the server was wiped clean came amid mounting confusion over how sensitive some of the Clinton emails were and how much of their contents should have been released. Clinton aides said at least two emails that might have triggered the federal inquiry were not marked secret at the time. But a Republican senator said Wednesday that U.S. inspector generals for the State Department and the intelligence community were told by some of the agency's freedom of information specialists that department lawyers released some Clinton materials to the public over their objections.
Federal investigators, prompted by a request from the inspector general for the State Department, requested custody of the server to learn whether the data stored on it was secure. NBC News has reported that an FBI team is now examining the server. Forensics experts told The Associated Press this week that some emails and other data may still be extracted from servers even after they are supposedly expunged.
From politico.
Clinton’s Tuesday night announcement came hours after the same intelligence community inspector general confirmed that two of 40 emails it examined had “top secret” information, according to a letter the office sent Grassley.
“These emails … have been properly marked by IC classification officials, and include information classified up to ‘TOP SECRET,’” reads the letter to the Iowa Republican.
They had previously been described to lawmakers as “above Secret,” requiring a lower clearance level, Grassley’s staff says. Top secret classifications are among the highest and most sensitive.
The ICIG said two additional emails it found were also classified by the State Department at the time they were sent, but it’s awaiting notification from State on the exact level of classification.
From Business Insider, White House geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer weighed in.
One administration official speaking to Bremmer recently put it succinctly: "If I did what Hillary did, I think I'd be in jail," Bremmer said the official told him.
Also
The State Department disputed Reuters' analysis but declined requests to explain how it was incorrect.
The findings of the Reuters review are separate from the recent analysis by the inspector general for US intelligence agencies, who said last month that his office found four emails that contained classified government secrets at the time they were sent in a sample of 40 emails not yet made public.
The State Department has said it does not know whether the inspector general is correct. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched an investigation into the security of the copies of the emails outside the government's control.
Read more: http://ift.tt/1JcnqX8
Something from Slate.
Wait, I thought Clinton once said she never sent or received classified information with this account?
During her first public comments about the controversy back in March, Clinton was adamant that no classified information of any kind was kept on her account or server: “There is no classified material.” That stance, though, has been subtly but significantly changing as more information comes to light. Late last month Clinton revised her answer to: “I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at the time.” And then on Tuesday it shifted again, to: “I did not send any material that was marked or designated classified.”
Hillary Email Server in the hands of the FBI
Let's start here.
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A federal judge says Hillary Clinton didn't comply with government policies whenshe used a private server for her email account as secretary of state.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, in a hearing Thursday for a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the State Department, determined Hillary Clinton's server and thumb drive would now be implicated in the many FOIA suits entangled in the larger controversy surrounding Clinton's email system.
"We wouldn't be here today if the employee had followed government policy," Sullivan said Thursday, in an apparent reference to Clinton's email protocol.
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The e-mail server used by Hillary Rodham Clinton when she served as secretary of state was turned over to the FBI late Wednesday afternoon from a private data center in New Jersey, according to an attorney familiar with the transfer.
“It was picked up about 4 p.m.,” said Barbara J. Wells, a Denver lawyer who represents Platte River Networks Inc., a small computer services firm that has managed the Clintons’ private e-mail system since mid-2013.
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The new stamps indicate that some of Clinton's emails from her time as the nation's most senior diplomat are filled with a type of information the U.S. government and the department's own regulations automatically deems classified from the get-go — regardless of whether it is already marked that way or not.
In the small fraction of emails made public so far, Reuters has found at least 30 email threads from 2009, representing scores of individual emails, that include what the State Department's own "Classified" stamps now identify as so-called 'foreign government information.' The U.S. government defines this as any information, written or spoken, provided in confidence to U.S. officials by their foreign counterparts.
This sort of information, which the department says Clinton both sent and received in her emails, is the only kind that must be "presumed" classified, in part to protect national security and the integrity of diplomatic interactions, according to U.S. regulations examined by Reuters.
"It's born classified," said J. William Leonard, a former director of the U.S. government's Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO). Leonard was director of ISOO, part of the White House's National Archives and Records Administration, from 2002 until 2008, and worked for both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.
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Confirmation that the server was wiped clean came amid mounting confusion over how sensitive some of the Clinton emails were and how much of their contents should have been released. Clinton aides said at least two emails that might have triggered the federal inquiry were not marked secret at the time. But a Republican senator said Wednesday that U.S. inspector generals for the State Department and the intelligence community were told by some of the agency's freedom of information specialists that department lawyers released some Clinton materials to the public over their objections.
Federal investigators, prompted by a request from the inspector general for the State Department, requested custody of the server to learn whether the data stored on it was secure. NBC News has reported that an FBI team is now examining the server. Forensics experts told The Associated Press this week that some emails and other data may still be extracted from servers even after they are supposedly expunged.
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Clinton’s Tuesday night announcement came hours after the same intelligence community inspector general confirmed that two of 40 emails it examined had “top secret” information, according to a letter the office sent Grassley.
“These emails … have been properly marked by IC classification officials, and include information classified up to ‘TOP SECRET,’” reads the letter to the Iowa Republican.
They had previously been described to lawmakers as “above Secret,” requiring a lower clearance level, Grassley’s staff says. Top secret classifications are among the highest and most sensitive.
The ICIG said two additional emails it found were also classified by the State Department at the time they were sent, but it’s awaiting notification from State on the exact level of classification.
From Business Insider, White House geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer weighed in.
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One administration official speaking to Bremmer recently put it succinctly: "If I did what Hillary did, I think I'd be in jail," Bremmer said the official told him.
Also
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The State Department disputed Reuters' analysis but declined requests to explain how it was incorrect.
The findings of the Reuters review are separate from the recent analysis by the inspector general for US intelligence agencies, who said last month that his office found four emails that contained classified government secrets at the time they were sent in a sample of 40 emails not yet made public.
The State Department has said it does not know whether the inspector general is correct. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched an investigation into the security of the copies of the emails outside the government's control.
Read more: http://ift.tt/1JcnqX8
Something from Slate.
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Wait, I thought Clinton once said she never sent or received classified information with this account?
During her first public comments about the controversy back in March, Clinton was adamant that no classified information of any kind was kept on her account or server: “There is no classified material.” That stance, though, has been subtly but significantly changing as more information comes to light. Late last month Clinton revised her answer to: “I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at the time.” And then on Tuesday it shifted again, to: “I did not send any material that was marked or designated classified.”
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