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Related: About this forumClinton Cleared Of Sending Highly Classified Info In Emails
The U.S. intelligence community has retreated from claims that two emails in Hillary Clintons private account contained top secret information, a source familiar with the situation told POLITICO.
The determination came from Director of National Intelligence James Clappers office and concluded that the two emails did not include highly classified intelligence secrets. Concerns about the emails' classification helped trigger an on-going FBI inquiry into Clinton's private email set-up.
Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III made the claim that two of the emails contained top secret information, the State Department publicly stated its disagreement and asked Clappers office to referee the dispute. Now, that disagreement has been resolved in States favor, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Intelligence officials claimed one email in Clintons account was classified because it contained information from a top secret intelligence community product or report, but a further review determined that the report was not issued until several days after the email in question was written, the source said.
"The initial determination was based on a flawed process," the source said. "There was an intelligence product people thought [one of the emails] was based on, but that actually postdated the email in question."
A top expert in classification procedures called the development " an astonishing turn of events."
"It's not just a mistake," said Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists. "It was a transformative event in the presidential campaign to this point. It had a potential to derail Clinton's presidential candidacy."
Aftergood said Clapper's office should be credited for seriously reconsidering the earlier conclusions by intelligence agencies.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/11/clinton-cleared-sending-highly-classified
Tarheel_Dem
(31,240 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)which bloom nicely in the fertile grounds of GD-P
William769
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(30,058 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,014 posts)Tired of the damn emails...
24601
(3,962 posts)selectively omitted the DNI Spokesman's denial that a determination had been made,
"A spokesman for Clapper said the review of the emails has not been completed. "ODNI has made no such determination and the review is ongoing," Clapper spokesman Brian Hale said."
Why do you think that crooks and liars did that?
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/hillary-clinton-email-no-highly-classified-215599
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