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Classified Data Found in Personal Email of Colin Powell and Aides to Condoleezza Rice

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Posted by gorb 2016-02-05 01:41|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Condi and Colin set up their own private servers? No

Posted by Frank G 2016-02-05 05:46|| 2016-02-05 05:46|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-05 06:45|| Front Page Top

#3 You spelled hopeless wrong. /s

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2016-02-05 07:23|| 2016-02-05 07:23|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-05 07:48|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-05 12:11|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-05 12:27|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-05 13:01|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-05 13:31|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-05 13:40|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-05 13:45|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-05 13:47|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-05 14:02|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-05 14:47|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-05 23:44|| Front Page Top

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