Grim has been there, done that, and has several t-shirts. So pay attention!
...I think maybe the most likely case is that the Hillary State Department
-- or at least her clique of advisers and aides, as well as non-DOS
personnel from her faction like Sidney Blumenthal -- were just
completely careless about classification. It's less likely that they
downloaded or wrote down information from the TS system to transfer onto
the private email server than that they summarized what they'd read on
the TS systems in unclassified emails. Quite possibly she and they
believed this was perfectly safe to do, as they controlled the server
and were only talking to other members of the trusted in-group....
...From the perspective of the law, this makes no difference. The rule is
that a document that contains classified information is classified, and
if it was built out of another document or set of documents, the new
document inherits the highest level of classification of any
of the summarized documents. Thus, if I write an email to you about
yoga and your daughter's wedding, and at the very end say: "PS: Did
you see the column of tanks moving up on Benghazi this morning?" based
on a satellite photo from the high side, the email I have just written
now needs to be marked "TS // SI / TK // NOFORN" and cannot be sent on
the unclassified system. Indeed, just because the computer will
automatically save a draft of that information on the unclassified
system while I am typing it up, just by typing it up and not sending it
I have already committed the crime that Petraeus went down for (i.e.,
storing classified information in an unapproved location)....
Got that?
No, she won't do time in Club Graybar. She's a member of the Ruling Class. Same with her accomplices/pals/dirtball friends.
Which is precisely why The Ruling Class is becoming an endangered species.
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