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Home Front: Politix
FBI now examining 'cut and paste' downgrading of Beest's email.
2016-01-26
[Breitbart] One of Hillary Clinton's defensive tactics is to insist that none of the emails on her unsecure private server were "marked classified," even though over a thousand emails containing classified material have now been discovered, including several Top Secret and beyond Top Secret documents.

Of course, Clinton leaves out the fact that those emails weren't "marked classified" is that her staff stripped the markings away (as one of her emails appears to show her ordering a staffer to do.) The New York Post reports the FBI is investigating another possibility: Clinton's aides manually cut-and-pasted the classified material out of secure systems, into messages destined for the Secretary of State's private server.

What the Post discusses is a process alluded to long ago, by intelligence veterans who noted that classified material cannot simply be forwarded to unsecure systems, as ordinary email users might click the "Forward" button in applications like Gmail or Microsoft Outlook to pass a message along to friends or co-workers. The secure systems can't directly communicate with unsecure email networks, such as the notorious ClintonEmail.com server.
Posted by:Besoeker

#3  If Obama blocks prosecution he could replace Nixon in the popular culture. Obstruction of justice is what brough Nixon down. Hmmm.
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2016-01-26 16:24  

#2  I wonder if someone brought an electronic device with "Dragon" style voice recognition software and read the classified traffic aloud to capture the verbatim reporting. Either that, or there is someone in the inner circle with high quality typing skills, or eidetic memory. In any event, the list has to be comparatively small, and from my SSO days, I suspect the culprit will be easy to trace and turn, providing they aren't certain they are above trial.
The larger question, the essential question, is are they? Has Hillary enough dirt/juice/allies to compel Champ and ValJar to pull the DoJ leash on what the FBI is going to refer. Or, can they convince the person(s) who committed the transcription felonies that they will be protected or pardoned?
Finally, I think the PLan B has always been Uncle Joe and Fauxcahontus, ready in the wings if the FBI can't be stopped, with a willingness to pardon everyone if Hilda and the Clinton Criminal Foundation bows out. Biden to the rescue, saving the country from the Bernie/Donald choice, and promising that Warren gets the Presidency after his one term, in which the cleanup on aisle six and the massive evidence of public corruption of the past 8 years is carefully put away. The Democrat Party, showing how far corruption has evolved in suffering America.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2016-01-26 14:52  

#1  So the data was hand-carried between airgapped networks before it was marked...wonder what summer intern they talked into doing that?
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-01-26 13:40  

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