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Thread #166318   Message #3997842
Posted By: beardedbruce
25-Jun-19 - 01:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Understanding the other political side
Subject: RE: BS: Understanding the other political side
Since I was referring to her making fun of the questions about the emails, LET ME REPHRASE:

Hillary was a traitor, who put her preferences above
the safety of the United States while serving in a high level Federal position.
"Classified information is material that a government body deems to be sensitive information that must be protected. Access is
restricted by law or regulation to particular groups of people with the necessary security clearance and need to know, and
intentionally mishandling of the material can incur criminal penalties. A formal security clearance is required to view or handle
classified documents or to access classified data. The clearance process requires a satisfactory background investigation.
Documents and other information must be properly marked by the author with one of several (hierarchical) levels of sensitivity—e.g.
restricted, confidential, secret and top secret. The choice of level is based on an impact assessment; governments have their own
criteria, which include how to determine the classification of an information asset, and rules on how to protect information
classified at each level."

Top Secret is the highest level of classified information. Information is further compartmented so that specific access using
a code word after top secret is a legal way to hide collective and important information. Such material would cause
"exceptionally grave damage" to national security if made publicly available.

Secret material would cause "serious damage" to national security if it were publicly available.

Yet she says makes light of it, and by her joking shows she does not consider the welfare of the United States to be as important as her convenience.


Is that better?

NOW explain how someone who willfully treats classified information in violation of the rules is NOT a traitor?

Comey announced his office will not recommend that charges be brought against Clinton or her staff. But the FBI director said Clinton and her staff “were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information."


That is a kick in the gut to everyone who has ever had a clearance, and protected the information held as expected .