JMHO Loc: Utah

Dem p**********l candidate and top aides signed NDAs warning against ‘negligent handling’ of classified information.

As the nation’s chief diplomat, Hillary Clinton was responsible for ascertaining whether information in her possession was classified and acknowledged that “negligent handling” of that information could jeopardize national security, according to a copy of an agreement she signed upon taking the job.

A day after assuming office as secretary of state, Clinton signed a Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement that laid out criminal penalties for “any unauthorized disclosure” of classified information.

Experts have guessed that Clinton signed such an agreement, but a copy of her specific contract, obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute through an open records request and shared with the Washington Free Beacon, reveals for the first time the exact language of the NDA.

“I have been advised that the unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized retention, or negligent handling of SCI by me could cause irreparable injury to the United States or be used to advantage by a foreign nation,” the agreement states.

Clinton received at least two emails while secretary of state on her personal email server since marked “TS/SCI”—top secret/sensitive compartmented information—according to the U.S. intelligence community’s inspector general.

The State Department said in September that Clinton’s private email system, set up at her Chappaqua, N.Y., home, was not authorized to handle SCI.

The Democratic p**********l frontrunner defended her unauthorized possession of SCI and her sending of emails containing classified information by claiming that the information was not marked as classified when it was sent or received.

The language of her NDA suggests it was Clinton’s responsibility to ascertain whether information shared through her private email server was, in fact, classified.

“I understand that it is my responsibility to consult with appropriate management authorities in the Department … in order to ensure that I know whether information or material within my knowledge or control that I have reason to believe might be SCI,” the agreement says.

The Clinton campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the NDA.

According to government security experts, the type of information that receives a TS/SCI designation is sensitive enough that most senior government officials would immediately recognize it as such.

“TS/SCI is very serious and specific information that jumps out at you and screams ‘classified,’” Larry Mrozinski, a former U.S. counterterrorism official, told the New York Post in August. “It’s hard to imagine that in her position she would fail to recognize the obvious.”

Additional emails on Clinton’s server contained information that was “born classified,” according to J. William Leonard, who directed the U.S. Information Security Oversight Office from 2002 to 2008.

“If a foreign minister just told the secretary of state something in confidence, by U.S. rules that is classified at the moment it’s in U.S. channels and U.S. possession,” Leonard told Reuters in August.

Clinton’s NDA spells out stiff criminal penalties for “any unauthorized disclosure of SCI.” The FBI is currently investigating whether Clinton’s private email server violated any federal laws.

In addition to her SCI agreement, Clinton signed a separate NDA for all other classified information. It contains similar language, including prohibiting “negligent handling of classified information,” requiring her to ascertain whether information is classified and laying out criminal penalties.

It adds, “I will never divulge classified information to anyone unless: (a) I have officially verified that the recipient has been properly authorized to receive it; or (b) I have been given prior written notice of authorization” from the proper authorizes.

Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, Clinton’s two top aides, also signed copies of the classified information NDA.

Mills sent classified information to officials at the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation in 2012, an email released by the State Department in September shows.

Mills’ NDA required her to inquire about the classification of information in her possession if she was unsure about its status. However, her attorney said that she “presumed” that the information she sent to the foundation was unclassified because it had been sent to her at her unclassified State Department email address.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-signed-nda-laying-out-criminal-penalties-for-mishandling-of-classified-info/

3jack

And Hillary said...........

Too comical for words!!!!

JMHO Loc: Utah

Yeah, your corrupt hero, pal...you dems love liars and crooks for your candidates...yawn...ho hum...

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

18 USC 793

(d) Whoever, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, t***smits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or t***smitted or attempts to communicate, deliver, t***smit or cause to be communicated, delivered or t***smitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it;


(f)Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

JMHO Loc: Utah

I have seen military personnel, during my Navy career, mishandle classified material and when caught are punished severely. Even ending their careers.

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

I have seen contractors have their clearance pulled and been precluded from performing any further work in security contracts.

The general populace is unaware of the agreement/documents signed by an individual working in these areas, hence a lack of understanding of the gravity of the violations.

One of the most ergregious violations was having photographs from the NGO on a non government certified secure server! 97% of all NGO documents are TS/SI.

JMHO Loc: Utah

I agree, when I worked as a government contractor, I have seen employees fired and prosecuted for less. Hell, as a government contractor holding a top secret security clearance you can't even have a bad credit rating, or you'll lose your clearance.

3jack

What is it that you don't understand that CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IS NOT T***SPORTED OVER NON-SECURE CIRCUITS LIKE THE INTERNET THROUGH E:MAILS. What is it that you don't understand that Clinton is too smart to leave herself vulnerable for criticism by willfully violating security protocol. No matter what you think, Clinton will survive and survive in a big way, because the t***h outweighs innuendo and opinion.

Ricko Loc: Florida

3jack-a Secretary of State who conducts government business through an unsecured private server in her home is smart ? Deceitful, egotistical, self serving, duplicitous, dishonest, and untrustworthy-maybe. Smart !!! -not hardly. Clinton will survive only if justice is ignored. If that happens then Gen. Petraeus needs to be cleared of all charges as what he did was remove classified material from a secure location to his home and shared it with someone who held Security Clearance. Conversely, Hillary made classified material available to whomever of her aides wanted to view same and made it possible for China and Russia to hack the information which was sent/received over an unsecure server and was kept in an unsecure area. The FBI will conclude their investigation and make recommendations to the DOJ. We shall see !!! PS. 61% of the American people polled believe Hillary is dishonest. Good Luck America !!!

JMHO Loc: Utah

You're even far more stupid than I ever thought...your "CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IS NOT T***SPORTED OVER NON-SECURE CIRCUITS LIKE THE INTERNET THROUGH E:MAILS" comment may be the most stupid yet...absolutely false, and damn ignorant. Just shows that you know absolutely nothing about classified material, how it is handled, and how it is t***smitted.

I will agree with your last statement though, that she will skate, but for different reasons. The Clinton machine probably has all kinds of real dirt on Obama, which they will threaten him with, and he will tell Loretta Lynch not to bring charges against her. After all the Clinton's are above the law...the most corrupt political machine this country has ever seen.

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

3jack,
You do realize the venerable right wing paper, The Washington Post, as well as the other right wing paper, The New York Times, have documented and written about "CLASSIFIED" information being t***smitted, via email, on her private non secure server. In point of fact, it was the Washington Post who published the finding of two NGO Documents on her private non secure server.

It only takes one security briefing to understand protocols.

meridianlesilie Loc: mars

she should have never been anything in the government but a person that pushes a dust mop around !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: