Hutch Starskey
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yeah, sure, whatever....
Have you ever received a briefing on the proper way to handle classified information? Don't bother , it's obvious you haven't.
Let's say you work for the State Department and you have classiied material in your briefcase, and you stop off for a drink on your way home from work. Let's say you accidently leave the bar without your briefcase.
Let's now say the next day you realize such and report it to your superiors. Guess what happens? You violated the law and will lose your security clearance, your job, and possibly your freedom.
speaking of that, here is another interesting question. What if the FBI stripped Hillary of her security clearance? Could a person who isn't eligible for a security clearance become President?
What emails are you referring to and when were they classified?
When they were classified is irrelevant to the law. Why do yall REFUSE to understand that? Hillary was bound to use her own good judgement and not disseminate information that should be classified regardless of whether it was classified or not. Her excuse of "it was later classified" doesn't hold water because that's not the way the law works, as she was well aware. They give lectures on this stuff when you are given you security clearances.
When they were classified is all that's relevant. None of these emails let alone all of them were ever meant to be public. Each one was reviewed and some were deemed classified so they could not be released without redactions. All of that was done after her tenure was completed and after the server was no longer in use. You can't hold someone accountable years ago for a standard that was created today.
You either have a bunch of us on ignore or you aren't paying attention. Classified information is still classified even before it is actually deemed "classified."
If General Joe sends me an email telling me that he is sending some troops to Tikrit. That is classified information right then...at that moment, and any idiot should recognize that. Now, it hasn't been labeled "classified" yet because it hasn't been reviewed by the people that actually categorize it as "classified." Now just because it hasn't been reviewed yet, doesn't mean I should email it to someone else on an unsecure server, or send it to someone's unsecure phone. Because of the highly sensitive nature I'm going to treat it like it is already marked as classified, until the time it is reviewed and officially deemed classified.
Now, not all my emails are going to be considered "classified," but that's where I use my training to use my best judgement and at the worst, error on the side of caution for safeties sake, because there could be lives on the line.
So yes, a big part of her emails may not have been marked as "classified" when they were sent or received, BUT she should have known the potential for them to be classified, and used her judgement to be more cautious with how they were handled, and used a secure server.
You either have a bunch of us on ignore or you aren't paying attention. Classified information is still classified even before it is actually deemed "classified."
An impossible standard for anyone to meet. Then everything is potentially classified as you never know the relevance to a future development.