He said the material had not been “reviewed or approved” by the Army and “does not reflect the position of the Army”.
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An Army spokesman on Tuesday confirmed to Fox News that the picture of the slide used in news accounts is authentic.
A USA military official told NBC News that the slide – with a header reading “Who is the threat?”
The mention of Clinton is an apparent reference to her use of a personal email server during her time at the State Department, including the handling of secret documents.
One slide from a recent OPSEC briefing was leaked to the Facebook community page U.S. Army W.T.F! Moments page told the Daily Caller that they actually received the photo from two different sources in less than six months.
An Army spokesperson said: “As is common with Army training requirements, the local unit was given latitude to develop their own training products to accomplish the overall training objective”. Also on the slide are Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, presumably for their exposures of classified information, as well as Nidal Hasan and Aaron Alexis, the respective perpetrators of the Fort Hood and Navy Yard Shootings.
A PowerPoint training slide listing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and retired Gen. David Petraeus among “insiders” who threatened national security was in use for 18 months at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, before Army officials pulled it out of circulation.
The presentation included Clinton as an example of a “careless or disgruntled employee”.
Earlier this year FBI Director James Comey said Clinton’s handling of classified materials had been “extremely careless”.
No word on the fate of the soldiers who wanted only to make people pay more attention to an otherwise routine training slide ― and succeeded beyond their wildest imaginings.
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Petraeus, too, featured prominently on the brief for handing over classified information to his biographer, Paul Broadwell, with whom he was having a long-standing affair.
