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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Bill Clinton: Email Classification Issues Are ‘Too Complicated To Explain To People’
2016-08-14
[DAILYCALLER] The American public doesn’t understand that Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edward Livingstone ...
 is telling the truth about her classified emails because government classification issues are "too complicated to explain to people," Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is...
 said Friday.
Yes. The classification system is very complex. Compromise of Top Secret information will cause "exceptionally grave damage to national security." Release of Secret information will cause grave damage. Blabbing Confidential information will cause damage or be prejudicial to national security. For Official Use Only isn't actually a classification. It means it's for use only within the organization. Top Secret and Secret information may be further compartmented based on the need to protect sources and methods or strategy. The classification system is the same for U.S. and NATO intel agencies. The classification of the data is independent of the markings -- taking the markings off doesn't unclassify it. You can see that it's mind-numblingly complicated, way too complex for someone with a hazy understanding of the meaning of the word "is."
The former president was speaking in Las Vegas a presidential forum hosted by the Asian American Journalists Association when he was asked why his wife lied about her emails.

"This is the biggest load of bull I’ve ever heard," Clinton said during a lengthy response to the question.

He also threw two government officials -- FBI director James Comey and Sec. of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
 -- under the bus while defending Hillary.
Too complicated is it? I held a TS/SCI for over a quarter century, try me.
I teach medicine at a major university, try me.
Posted by:Fred

#14  Its great how we have some alleged "conservatives" who tell themselves and others that the evil-incarnate that is the Clintons is easier for them to stomach than pulling the lever for Trump.
Posted by: Crusader   2016-08-14 19:24  

#13  "It's a corrupt slime bag thing -- you wouldn't understand."
Posted by: charger   2016-08-14 17:20  

#12  I'm a voter. Try me, you lying, stealing, sack of sleaze, pathetic old pervert.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2016-08-14 15:01  

#11  Just recently she was shouting her standard "nothing marked classified in my emails!" trope. And, of course, this is literally true, since the word "classified" is not used as an actual classification marking. She'll never admit that, as Comey testified, her emails contained TS or S or C markings. And the Kool-Aid drinkers just keep gulping it down.
Posted by: PBMcL   2016-08-14 14:14  

#10  17 million for speeches from the online university that the State Department picked for their education boondoggle. Really, no one in the left-wing media finds that utterly convincing these people are thieves and grifter trash?
Proof that critical thinking and honesty are absent for most of the "journalists" today. Useful idiots and fellow travelers....
That Bill is opening up on this says how much the scandal has hurt their trajectory for his second Presidency and the perks who will rush to Chappaqua while Hill and Huma are nestled in the WH.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2016-08-14 13:20  

#9  So how much did Slick Willy get for a dishonorarium, speaking before the Asian American Journalists Association?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2016-08-14 12:11  

#8  Email classification is nearly as complicated as sexual assault laws.
Posted by: Airandee   2016-08-14 11:47  

#7  Epitaph on the Clinton Tomb:
"Who ya gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?"
Posted by: Frank G on the road   2016-08-14 10:10  

#6  I think I've got the basic idea. Hillary putting the launch codes on an unsecure server is a silly little mistake. "Guccifer" putting Nancy Pelosi's cellphone number on an unsecure server is a serious breach of national security.
Posted by: Matt   2016-08-14 09:30  

#5  I'm, to Bill Clinton and Hillary, just a dumb hick from south Alabama but I understood it very well when working at Oak Ridge. Hey, Willie. It ain't rocket science.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2016-08-14 09:24  

#4  Funny how some 18 year-old kid from Compton can understand it well enough from the DOD's video-game courses to get educational certificates in cyberwareness and OPSEC, though.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-08-14 08:55  

#3  All depends on the what the meaning of 'is' is.

Well, I go with what has been established by precedent as to how its been applied to other people for doing the same thing. I know, you don't wan to go there either.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-08-14 08:41  

#2  Give it a try Slick Willy, you condescending putz.
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-08-14 07:10  

#1  It seemed pretty simple when they were running Petraeus through the wringer.
Posted by: gorb   2016-08-14 04:42  

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