Just some recent notes and observations:
From: The New York Post
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The FBI is investigating whether members of Hillary Clinton’s inner circle “cut and pasted” material from the government’s classified network so that it could be sent to her private email address, former State Department security officials say.Clinton and her top aides had access to a Pentagon-run classified network that goes up to the Secret level, as well as a separate system used for Top Secret communications.
The two systems — the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) and the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS) — are not connected to the unclassified system, known as the Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNet). You cannot email from one system to the other, though you can use NIPRNet to send emails outside the government.
Somehow, highly classified information from SIPRNet, as well as even the super-secure JWICS, jumped from those closed systems to the open system and turned up in at least 1,340 of Clinton’s home emails — including several the CIA earlier this month flagged as containing ultra-secret Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Programs, a subset of SCI.
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[boldface added - DD]
The New York Post
If this is so, . . . that classified information was transferred to an unclassified network
after removing the classification, . . . someone is going to jail. Her name may well be Huma Weiner. [No
really ! That is her
real name.]
There may be an explanation as to why Secretary Clinton keeps referring to the "fact" that the classified e-mails were not
marked classified when received.
(First, a brief note, . . . necessary because "The Clintons" are known tp "parse" the language when necessary to obscure the facts: No classified information is
ever marked "classified"; it
is marked "CONFIDENTIAL" or "SECRET" or "TOP SECRET", often with modifiers indicating the nature of the information attached.)
Oh, there's another reason why some of the now classified information on the Secretary of State's home server were not marked, although they have subsequently (or even previously) been classified. Some such e-mails were sent from long-time Clinton crony Sidney Blumenthal's AOL-account to Hillary's, . . . umm, . . . ahh, . . . "Chappaqua Server".
[
n.b.:
__ Even if these communications were not
marked it is part of the Secretary of State's job to recognize classified information and see that it is marked classified before she sends or upon receiving it.
__ As a private citizen not in the employ of the US Government Mr. Blumenthal is not authorized to receive, possess or transmit classified information.]
With specific respect to the latest [29 January] Friday-data-dump:
"[T]he State Department announced that it, too, had found “top secret” information on Clinton’s server — 22 emails across seven separate emails chains. The information, the State Department said, was so secret that those emails would never be released to the public."
Ref: The Washington Post
