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Home Front: Politix
Classified Data Found in Personal Email of Colin Powell and Aides to Condoleezza Rice
2016-02-05
I think I see how this is going to play out. The FBI will find some confidential emails here and there and then decide that it's a system-wide problem and give everybody a pass with a stern warning not to do it again. Nevermind that an unfinished tally of Hilla the Hun's email had a bazillion classifieds, dozens of top-secrets and also several so secret we can't even talk about them, she will also get to go along with the free ride, too.
[NYTimes] The State Department has discovered a dozen emails containing classified information that were sent to the personal email accounts of Colin L. Powell and close aides of Condoleezza Rice during their tenures as secretaries of state for President George W. Bush.

Two emails were sent to Mr. Powell's personal account, and 10 to personal accounts of Ms. Rice's senior aides. Those emails have now been classified as "confidential" or "secret" as part of a review process that has resulted in similar "upgrades" of information sent through the personal email server that Hillary Clinton used while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. The State Department did not say who sent the emails to Mr. Powell or to Ms. Rice's aides, or who received the messages.

It is against the law to have classified information outside a secure government account.

Of the nearly 30,000 emails from Mrs. Clinton's server that have been released by the State Department under a court order, 18 emails sent to or from her have also been classified as secret, and 1,564 others have been classified at the lower level of "confidential."

Last week, the State Department said that 22 emails had now been classified as "top secret" and would not be released, and would have part or all of their contents redacted, or blacked out. A review of 3,700 more emails by the department and intelligence agencies continues.
More blah blah at link.
Posted by:gorb

#14  I can see going back into legacy material to see if anything else was sabotaged. Colin Powell may never have known that the emails sent to him contained classified material, since they WERE sent to him. It depends on who sent them, when, and why. If some of Ms. Rice's senior aides had received classified emails and KNEW they were classified, there was a problem. Several big differences between this and Hillary: Neither Powell nor Rice created an exclusively non-governmental server, and did all their business through it. There is (yet) no evidence that any of either of them routinely received classified material on their personal accounts. Neither of them tried to HIDE their personal email account. And (so far) TOP SECRET Codeword material hasn't been discovered, as it was on Hitlery's account. If Hillary doesn't burn, you can put a fork in the United States -- it's dead.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2016-02-05 23:44  

#13  Amusing that State wants more time to produce Hil's mail, but they do have the resources to root around in Colin Powell's old correspondence.
Posted by: SteveS   2016-02-05 14:47  

#12  "What security officer would allow USB ports on a classified computer?" DS had been screaming about this for years. It was not until Manning/Wikileaks that DOS decided to remove USB ports (though I think Manning copied some stuff on CDROM).

USB ports were available during the Beast's term as SecState. Mr. B has it right IMHO - print out class material and hand jam it into uncles system and/or USB airgap from one system to the other. They did it willing and knowingly and none of them will ever be punished.

If I did it I would be placed on admin leave pending dismissal/criminal charges, my office would be sealed with crime scene tape, and my clearance suspended in a flipping heartbeat.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy   2016-02-05 14:02  

#11  If Dragon was on the other end of the phone outside the SCIF then yes, that would work.
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2016-02-05 13:47  

#10  Could do Dragon over the phone. Yes, that could work; Yikes. Hard to imagine admins letting users load their own software though.
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2016-02-05 13:45  

#9  I wondered if a Dragon-type verbal recognition software wasn't brought into the SCIF (illegally) and used to write what classified was then read aloud by the staffer(s) who then used it to write to unclass email and send to Hilda. Saves the risk of carrying out classified and having the whole signature receipt risk for the criminal(s) who did this.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2016-02-05 13:40  

#8  What security officer would allow USB ports on a classified computer? Or if they did, wouldn't disable the mount removable drive software (or at least flag it to a security admin)?

I am guessing printed, brought outside, and scanned.
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2016-02-05 13:31  

#7  My understanding is that these e-mails only became classified AFTER they left. I'd be very interested to know exactly when they ended up getting these classification. Maybe in the last couple months?

No, it was a 'cut'n paste' or roving thumb drive operation by somebody or a group of somebodies. Hundreds or thousands of pieces of TS/SCI or SAP traffic are not classified after the fact. The classification markings were removed by unauthorized person(s) and the traffic was ported or re-keyed to an UNCLAS system. It's as simple as that.

Difficult to say what will come of all of this. My guess is nothing. Those involved [and there are probably many] are too big to fail
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-02-05 13:01  

#6  My understanding is that these e-mails were only became classified AFTER they left.

Complete and total BS. Classified data were copied off the black internet and inserted into emails that resided on HRC's email server for the entire world intelligence communities to steal.

Posted by: Sven the pelter   2016-02-05 12:27  

#5  My understanding is that these e-mails were only became classified AFTER they left. I'd be very interested to know exactly when they ended up getting these classification. Maybe in the last couple months?
Posted by: Charles   2016-02-05 12:11  

#4  So they should indict Colin and Condi, too. Right after Hilly's indictment. Her trial and punishment can set a precedent for all the others. And future scofflaws.

[sigh] I ain't holdin' my breath.
Posted by: Bobby   2016-02-05 07:48  

#3  You spelled hopeless wrong. /s
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2016-02-05 07:23  

#2  Powell and Rice also had all of those questionable land investment deals, lengthy lists of dead associates, foreign pay-for-play schemes, money laundering Canadian based foundations, and presidential aspirations.

And to top it off, Powell and Rice were 'white black people' and evil Bushitler appointees !!!

Why must we continue to denigrate the helpless Clintons ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-02-05 06:45  

#1  Condi and Colin set up their own private servers? No
Posted by: Frank G   2016-02-05 05:46  

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