The innocuous nature of the new Benghazi email is a setback for Republicans in Congress, who have spent years and millions in taxpayer funds on multiple investigations searching for evidence to support their claim that Clinton was negligent in her handling of the Benghazi incident.
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“Classified material has a header which says ‘top secret, ‘ ‘secret, ‘ ‘confidential.’ Nothing – and I will repeat this, and this is verified in the report by the Department of Justice – none of the e-mails sent or received by me had such a header”.
But the most significant point here is that Hillary Clinton knows that what she is saying is nonsense.
Considering that Hillary has been accused of mishandling classified information on an nearly industrial scale, what shines through is that Clinton is utterly clueless about classification matters, betraying an ignorance that is shocking when encountered in a former top official of our government – and one who wants to be our next commander-in-chief.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) released the emails between Powell and Clinton and said in a statement, via the Daily Beast, “This email exchange shows that Secretary Powell advised Secretary Clinton with a detailed blueprint on how to skirt security rules and bypass requirements to preserve federal records, although Secretary Clinton has made clear that she did not rely on this advice”.
The FBI in July closed the agency’s yearlong investigation into whether Clinton and her top aides mishandled classified information that flowed through the private email server located in the basement of her NY home.
She said she was aware that a private email server was located in the basement of her Chappaqua, New York, home but had no knowledge of the “hardware, software and security protocols used to construct and operate the server”.
Perhaps Clinton can be cut some slack for not immediately recognizing low-level classified information as such, but she also sent and received messages that were secret, top secret, and above top secret from the moment of origination. “Moreover, she recalled many conversations about future drone strikes that never occurred”. “I know of what I speak about classification and how careful we all are about not even acknowledging something that we may have learned in a classified setting and I don’t think Hillary Clinton did that”, Pelosi added. But she said there was no discussion of “covert actions” that were being considered in the messages. She has said she viewed classified information in hard copy in her office, and she used other secure channels when traveling. We had to have an answer that did not move into classified area.
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Clinton said “there is no evidence” her personal emails were hacked, whereas both the State Department and White House systems were.
