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Wed Aug 26, 2015, 09:31 PM Aug 2015

Diplomats said to ‘routinely’ send secret info via email before Clinton

Diplomats said to ‘routinely’ send secret info via email before Clinton

By Julian Hattem at the Hill

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/252028-diplomats-said-to-routinely-send-secret-info-via-email-before

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Hillary Clinton’s predecessors at the State Department “routinely” passed along secret information through unsecured email networks, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.

The news agency on Wednesday identified a number of cases in which diplomats’ emails were later classified for containing national security information, yet are available for the public to read through the State Department’s website.

Those cases are distinct from Clinton’s use of a personal server to run her own personal email address while in office as secretary of State. But they detail an environment in which it was not uncommon for top diplomats to transmit sensitive information over unsecured networks.

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The AP found five emails dating to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s time in office that have been largely censored for containing secrets.



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Diplomats said to ‘routinely’ send secret info via email before Clinton (Original Post) applegrove Aug 2015 OP
BENGHAAAAAAAAAAZI!!!!!!!! Metric System Aug 2015 #1
Condi Rice guilty of the same. Where's Fox Snooze outrage? oasis Aug 2015 #2
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