WASHINGTON – A 2011 email in which Hillary Clinton instructed an aide to remove the security headers on classified information and forward it to her unsecure smartphone set a precedent for the handling of similar information over the next year and a half until she left office, a retired general well versed in the handling of classified information says in a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
“It certainly shows a trend or a way for them to do their own business [that] they felt would be under the radar,” said retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, referring to five or six close Clinton assistants and advisers.
Vallely who was deputy commanding general for the U.S. Army Pacific in 1991, is chairman of the non-profit Stand Up America and a member of the private Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi, which is looking into the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack, which occurred while Clinton was secretary of state.
“It is obvious that the State Department has been complicit because of the delays in releasing the emails, heavily redacted in many cases, and then trying to marginalize what I would say are felony offenses because they are,” Vallely said.
“You not only got the complicity of her small group of network people working with her but also you have a network of individuals in the State Department who would want to protect her,” he said.
In email exchanges with Clinton on June 17, 2011, Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan said a secure fax of talking points to be cleared by the intelligence community that Clinton had sought couldn’t be sent.
“They’ve (presumably the intelligence community) had issues sending secure fax,” Sullivan wrote. “They’re working on it.”
For the rest of this report, and others, go to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
In response, Clinton wrote back: “If they can’t, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure.”
The Sullivan email exchange with Clinton released by the State Department on Jan. 7, 2016, has been removed from its website.
Enemy access
Vallely noted the Russians and Chinese have been hacking into U.S. computer systems for years, meaning Clinton effectively could have been aiding and abetting enemies.
Fox News reports that a 2013 video raises questions about how Clinton handled sensitive information at the State Department. The video reveals veteran diplomat Wendy Sherman saying that in the interest of speed, Clinton and her aides shared information that “would never be on an unclassified system” normally.
“Now we have BlackBerrys, and it has changed the way diplomacy is done,” said Sherman, who was an undersecretary of state at the time.
“Things appear on your BlackBerrys that would never be on an unclassified system,” she said. “But you’re out traveling, you’re trying to negotiate something. You want to communicate with people; it’s the fastest way to do it.”
Top secret
Vallely’s comments on Clinton’s handling of classified information come as the State Department has determined that 22 emails slated for release could not be made public because they were determined to be “top secret.”
The emails are said to contain sensitive information on SAPs, or Special Access Programs, with sources and methods that could put lives in jeopardy.
Indeed, members of Congress must have special clearance to be see the information in the SAPs.
For the rest of this report, and others, go to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
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