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“If they can’t, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure.”

That’s an order to violate the laws handling classified material.

There is no other way to read that demand.

Regardless of whether or not Sullivan complied, this demolishes Hillary’s claim to be ignorant of marking issues, as well as strongly suggests that the other thousand-plus instances where this did occur likely came under her direction.


Bombshell: In Email, Hillary Ordered Aide to Strip Classified Marking and Send Sensitive Material
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/01/08/boom-in-newlyreleased-email-hillary-orders-aide-to-strip-classified-marking-n2101680?newsletterad=

The State Department waited until the middle of the night to execute its belated, court-ordered release of the latest tranche of Hillary Clinton's emails -- the ones she and her attorneys didn't unilaterally delete with no oversight, that is. Fox News notices a significant exchange that may point to criminal conduct:

The latest batch of emails released from Hillary Clinton's personal account from her tenure as secretary of state includes 66 messages deemed classified at some level, the State Department said early Friday.

In one email, Clinton even seemed to coach a top adviser on how to send secure information outside secure channels.

Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic p**********l nomination, has repeatedly maintained that she did not send or receive classified material on her personal account.

The State Department claims none of the emails now marked classified were labled as such at the time they were sent. However, one email thread from June 2011 appears to include Clinton telling her top adviser Jake Sullivan to send secure information through insecure means.

In response to Clinton's request for a set of since-redacted talking points, Sullivan writes, "They say they've had issues sending secure fax. They're working on it."

Clinton responds "If they can't, turn into nonpaper [with] no identifying heading and send nonsecure."

Ironically, an email thread from four months earlier shows Clinton saying she was "surprised" that a diplomatic oficer named John Godfrey used a personal email account to send a memo on Libya policy after the fall of Muammar Qaddafi.

Where to begin? Let's start with the least serious revelation, and work our way up:

(1) Hillary evinced surprise that a State Department underling had used his personal account to send an official email. How rich. Yes, the State Department had explicitly instructed employees to follow the rules and only use secure means to disseminate official information.

State sanctioned at least one top diplomat for disregarding those rules.

Mrs. Clinton may have been especially "surprised" at Godfrey's actions because they came after she'd been issued a dire warning that foreign entities were aggressively targeting State Department officials' personal, unsecure email accounts.

But lest you need reminding, Hillary Clinton exclusively used such accounts to conduct all of her official business -- via an improper, unsecure, private server -- before and after this urgent red f**g was brought to her attention.

(2) "Clinton...has repeatedly maintained that she did not send or receive classified material on her personal account." This assertion has been disproven by the more than 1,000 classified emails discovered on her private server, including 66 additions from this batch alone. Her myriad excuses for this have been debunked piece by piece.

(3) Her final justification -- which is legally irrelevant, as Hillary herself has personally attested -- is that none of the sensitive material that she wrongfully t***smitted through her unsecure server was "marked classified" at the time.

Again, this is meaningless, especially when it comes to highly secret material that she was obligated to recognize and protect as soon as it was produced.

But the email chain referenced above includes an instruction from Hillary Clinton to a State Department aide (who now works on her campaign) to strip classified information -- it remains redacted to this day -- of its classified markings ["identifying heading"] and "send nonsecure."

Ed Morrissey, who posts a screen shot of the exchange, reviews the relevant criminal statute and thinks this looks like a smoking gun:

One wonders how many other emails and memos were improperly wiped clean of classified markings for the purposes of convenience, or what have you. You may recall allegations published last year that this may have been a more routine practice:

Flashback: State Dept official alleges Hillary's "inner circle" may have stripped classification markings, a crime: https://t.co/jYdsVwHdsj

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) January 8, 2016

That would "constitute a felony," the source said. Hillary's entire defense for sending and receiving hundreds upon hundreds of classified emails through unsecure means is that nothing was marked classified, so she didn't really know what was happening.

That's a bogus and unacceptable explanation in the first place, yet here we have her explicitly asking that a document that was marked classified be un-marked as such and sent anyway.

(4) One last puzzle piece, via Lachlan Markay:

Clinton was apparently impressed with Sid Blumenthal's Egypt intel pic.twitter.com/bsl0fDUsgc

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) January 8, 2016

Remember, Blumenthal was Hillary's off-the-books intel-gatherer who was paid by the Clinton Foundation. The Obama administration had barred him from official work due to his notoriously checkered ethics.

He fed Hillary all sorts of information, including intelligence from Libya -- some of which was clearly designed to enhance his personal financial interests. Hillary encouraged and solicited his emails (something she later denied), and occasionally kicked his information up the chain...after scrubbing his name from the missives.

It was through Blumenthal's hacked personal emails that we discovered that Hillary had unilaterally deleted work-related content from her private email server, which she swore she hadn't done. (More evidence that she lied about this is here).

Confronted with his evidence, she attempted to massively shift the goalposts of what counts as "work-related," insisting that Blumenthal was just an old friend whose correspondence was personal in nature. But here we have more evidence of Blumenthal acting as a high-level diplomatic informant, this time on matters related to Egypt.

And Hillary quite obviously takes the material seriously, passing it along to other State Department officials for further discussion.

This is the veritable definition of work-related material.

Everything -- everything -- Hillary Clinton has said about her improper email scheme is a lie. What else does the FBI know that the public still does not?

UPDATES - Here's the State Department's slippery explanation:

Here's what the State Department is saying about that Clinton "non-paper" email https://t.co/jy3OyIKTSy pic.twitter.com/YxwZOt09PX

— Kyle Blaine (@kyletblaine) January 8, 2016

They have no information "at this time" that this material ended up being emailed to her. Question: Why wouldn't it have been?

More than 1,000 other classified emails were sent to her, including secret and top secret material. She wasn't remotely cautious about this stuff, even though it was her sworn duty to be cautious about his stuff.

Plus, this State Department official says, the definition of "non-paper" (which I examine a bit here) is "colloquial" and capacious -- so who can really say what she meant, exactly?

The official won't speculate as to whether the talking points in question were classified, as some non-classified material is also stored and disseminated securely. If that's the case here, why would Hillary request that the "identifying heading" be removed prior to being sent "nonsecure"?

Once again, the cavalier manner in which she habitually treated classified material is highly relevant. According to Fox's report, the talking points have since been redacted.

The subject of those talking points has also been redacted by the State Department, citing the "deliberative process" exemption to FOIA requests. The intelligence community is starting to weigh in:

Former senior Intel official on new HRC email: "Bombshell."

— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) January 8, 2016
Oh look, a Federal crime! https://t.co/XeCJuDXKfA

— John Schindler (@20committee) January 8, 2016

And some additional important context:

Hillary's email openly trafficked in confidential intelligence identities that are classified for 20 years. https://t.co/K7TXMPj8b0

— Cuffy (@CuffyMeh) January 8, 2016
Remember, she testified under oath that he wasn't an adviser of any kind - official or unofficial. #false https://t.co/AH8wTz2pLW

— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) January 8, 2016

And finally, this email exchange seems to blow a hole through Hillary's luddite grandma / "like, with a cloth?" routine:

1. I'm just a little granny who can't handle two cell phones at once! 2.Turn into nonpaper w/no identifying heading and send nonsecure

— John Hayward (@Doc_0) January 8, 2016


Whoa: Hillary e-mail instructs aide to t***smit classified data without markings

POSTED AT 10:01 AM ON JANUARY 8, 2016 BY ED MORRISSEY
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/01/08/whoa-hillary-e-mail-instructs-aide-to-t***smit-classified-e-mail-without-markings/

Has the State Department released a smoking gun in the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal?

In a thread from June 2011, Hillary exchanges e-mails with Jake Sullivan, then her deputy chief of staff and now her campaign foreign-policy adviser, in which she impatiently waits for a set of talking points.

When Sullivan tells her that the source is having trouble with the secure fax, Hillary then orders Sullivan to have the data stripped of its markings and sent through a non-secure channel.

That should be game, set, and match, yes?

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“If they can’t, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure.”

That’s an order to violate the laws handling classified material. There is no other way to read that demand.

Regardless of whether or not Sullivan complied, this demolishes Hillary’s claim to be ignorant of marking issues, as well as strongly suggests that the other thousand-plus instances where this did occur likely came under her direction.

Fox News also noticed the e-mail this morning, although they don’t yet have a copy of it linked:

However, one email thread from June 2011 appears to include Clinton telling her top adviser Jake Sullivan to send secure information through insecure means.

In response to Clinton’s request for a set of since-redacted talking points, Sullivan writes, “They say they’ve had issues sending secure fax.

They’re working on it.”

Clinton responds “If they can’t, turn into nonpaper [with] no identifying heading and send nonsecure.”

Ironically, an email thread from four months earlier shows Clinton saying she was “surprised” that a diplomatic oficer named John Godfrey used a personal email account to send a memo on Libya policy after the fall of Muammar Qaddafi.

It’s probably time to review the relevant criminal statutes again in this case, such as 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; or

(e) Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over 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 to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it; or

(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.
Did those talking points get illegally t***smitted on Hillary’s order? If so, then Sullivan may find himself in legal trouble, too.

Paragraph (g) makes it clear that “each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be subject to the punishment provided for the offense which is the object of such conspiracy.”

This explains why more than a thousand pieces of classified information have found their way into Hillary’s unauthorized and unsecured e-mail system — and why the markings have been stripped from them.

Hillary herself apparently ordered the Code Red, so to speak.

Update: Speaking of Code Red, thanks to the Drudge Report for the red-text link, and welcome to Drudge readers!

At least 1,340 Clinton emails now known to contain classified material
State Department says none was marked classified during Clinton’s tenure
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/e******n/article53685825.html

Smoking Gun: Email Suggests Hillary Broke Law, Clinton instructed an aide to remove the classification marking from information, a federal offense
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/smoking-gun-email-suggests-hillary-committed-a-crime/

Update: I’ve been asked for a specific link to the file, but the State Department FOIA portal doesn’t easily provide one. That’s why media outlets have just downloaded the PDFs themselves and provided them for readers.

I’ve done that here now, but if you want to check the provenance of the document, go to State’s FOIA portal and search for documents dated 6-16-2011.
https://www.foia.state.gov/Search/results.aspx?searchText=*&beginDate=20110610&endDate=20110620&publishedBeginDate=&publishedEndDate=&caseNumber=

There is no subject or recipient listed, but the file name is C05787519.pdf.

Update: The Hill actually did figure out how to get the link, so here it is (or feel free to use ours). The Hill’s Brandon Richardson cautions that “It is not clear what the contents of the email were, whether information sent was classified or secure or whether the order was carried out.”

Email: Clinton asked adviser to send ‘secure fax’ by email
http://thehill.com/blogs/b****t-box/p**********l-races/265210-email-clinton-asked-adviser-to-send-secure-fax-by-email

CLASIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05787519 Date: 01/07/2016
https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_Jan7thWeb/08635C6-8/DOC_0C05787519/C05787519.pdf

However, there is little reason to send unclassified or sensitive material through a secure fax, and no reason to strip out the headers of unclassified material in order to work around secure-t***smission channels.

Guy Benson has more on the latest e-mails; be sure to read it all.

Bombshell: In Email, Hillary Ordered Aide to Strip Classified Marking and Send Sensitive Material
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/01/08/boom-in-newlyreleased-email-hillary-orders-aide-to-strip-classified-marking-n2101680

Update: There are a few people wondering whether the “TPs” (talking points”) in question in this thread were classified in the first place. There are a couple points to remember in that context:

Unclassified material doesn’t need to be t***smitted by secure fax; if the material wasn’t classified, Sullivan would have had them faxed normally.
Ordering aides to remove headers to facilitate the t***smission over unsecured means strongly suggests that the information was not unclassified.

On top of that, removing headers to avoid t***smission security would be a violation of 18 USC 793 anyway, which does not require material to be classified — only sensitive to national security.

State did leave this document unclassified, but that’s because there isn’t any discussion of what the talking points cover. They redacted the subject headers with B5 and B6 exemptions, invoked to note that the FOIA demand doesn’t cover the material (in their opinion).

Ordering the headings stripped, and Sullivan’s apparent reluctance to work around the secure fax system, makes it all but certain that the material was classified at some level — and Hillary knew it.