NBC News Rebuts Right-Wing Media Claim That Clinton Emails Reveal Names Of Undercover Operatives

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Observer articles get posted regularily in gd-p. shameful, as they are nothing but hit pieces on Hillary
This is a long article--full of details as most Media Matters article are.


http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/02/04/nbc-news-rebuts-right-wing-media-claim-that-cli/208369



NBC News Rebuts Right-Wing Media Claim That Clinton Emails Reveal Names Of Undercover Operatives

Story Originated With Observer Columnist Who Resigned From Naval War College Following Investigation Into Erratic Behavior
Research 4 hours and 15 minutes ago ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF


NBC News has rebutted the allegation that a set of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails that are being withheld from public release by the State Department revealed the names of undercover intelligence operatives, a claim that had been trumpeted by the right-wing media. The allegation originated with an anonymously-sourced report issued by John Schindler, a columnist who was resigned from the Naval War College following an investigation into his erratic behavior.
State Department Withholds Clinton Emails At Request Of Intelligence Community

State Department: Seven Email Chains Will Be Withheld From Freedom of Information Act Production, No Emails Marked Classified At Time They Were Sent. In a January 29 statement, State Department Spokesperson John Kirby said that seven email chains would be held from the Department's regular production of Clinton emails for public viewing after they were "upgraded at the request of the Intelligence Community because they contain a category of Top Secret information." Kirby added that "These documents were not marked classified at the time they were sent." [Kirby statement, 1/29/16, via Twitter]

Clinton Campaign: This Is "Over-Classification Run Amok." The Clinton presidential campaign responded to the news by stating that they "firmly oppose the complete blocking of the release of these emails," calling their withholding the result of "over-classification run amok." [Clinton campaign statement, 1/29/16, via Twitter]

Schindler Cites Anonymous "Intelligence Community Officials" To Claim Clinton Emails Contain "Colossally Damaging" Information


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Schindler Resigned From Naval War College Following Erratic Behavior

Schindler Was Placed On Administrative Leave And Then Resigned Following Twitter Scandal. Schindler resigned from his job as a professor at the Naval War College in August 2014 after the College investigated a "picture of Schindler's penis" that had been posted on Twitter. From The Huffington Post:............................

[wysi]

1. K & R

We've got to stop this wave of posting right wing attacks.

[riversedge]

2. our jury system

is broken. I have seen several alerts sent on RW sites--they come back as Leave it.

[LannyDeVaney]

3. Sanders supporters are pretty much parroting Fox News ...

and they've stacked this site, that's why they all get voted to "Leave It".

I hope it changes after Sec. Clinton locks up the nomination. If not, I'm outa' here.

[riversedge]

5. I am starting to think that also.

[Treant]

7. Ditto.

I'll miss what this place used to be, but certainly won't miss what it's become.

[dlwickham]

4. K&R

[Thinkingabout]

6. The RW and others would love to be able to come up with a scandal which would

Prevent Hillary, the most qualified candidate running, from becoming president. It is not working, the GOP does not have a candidate which can match her skills and abilities so they have hoped Sanders would be the nominee and they could beat someone like Sanders.

[Hortensis]

8. Colin Powell: "...I do not see what makes them classified,”

Colin Powell disagrees with the retroactive classification of HIS e-mails, from the Washington Post:

Hillary Clinton gained an apparent ally Thursday in her fight to limit the political damage from her growing email controversy, as former Republican secretary of state Colin L. Powell said he disagreed with a State Department decision to retroactively classify two emails from his personal account while in office.

“I have reviewed the messages, and I do not see what makes them classified,” Powell said of the emails, which were uncovered late last year by the State Department’s inspector general and, he said, brought to his attention by the department in recent weeks.

The emails, initially sent to the State Department by two U.S. ambassadors serving abroad and forwarded to Powell’s account by an aide, were described in notifications sent to Congress in recent days by the State Department and intelligence community inspectors general.

Those notifications also said that 10 emails with retroactively classified information had been found on private accounts of the “immediate staff” of Condoleezza Rice, Powell’s immediate successor in the second term of the George W. Bush administration.

The originators of the messages to Powell did not classify them, he said, and “if the department wishes to say a dozen years later they should have been classified, that is an opinion of the department that I do not share.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hillary-clintons-new-unlikely-ally-in-email-controversy-colin-powell/2016/02/04/6d0bcc30-cb82-11e5-a7b2-5a2f824b02c9_story.html