IG: Some Emails on Clinton’s Server Were Beyond Top Secret

There were several dozen emails in question beyond the two previously reported emails containing top secret information, according to the report.

These programs are highly restricted to protect intelligence community sources and methods.

“I think this was a very coordinated leak”, spokesman Brian Fallon said on CNN. And I don’t see – given the fact that it’s the inspector general of the intelligence community who was writing this officially to the Intelligence Committee heads in Congress – that there is any way to contradict this. Probably not. Did he have every expectation probably that that letter was going to be leaked by the members of Congress to whom he sent it?

I mean, he was a nominee from President Obama in 2011, we should point out, so the idea that he’s now working in cahoots with Republicans smacks some as made up.

The material in the emails is classified at a level above ‘top secret, ‘ Fox reported, meaning that some lawmakers have been required to sign new agreements not to reveal their contents. Clinton denies any knowledge of ever having transmitted or received material “marked” classified over her personal, unsecured server. Some folks think so. Her critics say she should have recognized them as classified and labelled them so herself, which she is authorized to do.

The FBI is now investigating whether State Department officials improperly included classified material in email correspondence with Clinton.

“Mrs. Clinton knows better because she had to have special training as secretary of state because she has classification authority”. The private server was attacked by hackers from China, South Korea, and Germany, after she’d already left office. But for more than three months before the product was installed, her server was vulnerable to cyberattacks.

However, according to the WSJ story, those 55,000 pages of emails were exposed without any kind of protection against hackers for a period of four months from June to October, 2013.

Earlier in the week, the same plaintiffs received emails from Clinton aide Huma Abedin, now a top official on Clinton’s presidential campaign, which show Clinton was given the option of using a State Department Blackberry for email purposes, but the option was dismissed.

Clinton’s private email set-up first surfaced in March 2015, leading to heavy criticism. The new report came a day after a new poll saw Sanders opening up a 60-33 percent lead – his widest yet – over Clinton in the crucial state of New Hampshire.

Clinton’s server did not encrypt emails, a fact that let critics raise concerns that hackers may have obtained classified information from her correspondence.

Charles McCulllough, the intelligence community’s inspector general, said in a letter to the chairmen of the Senate intelligence and foreign affairs committees that he has received sworn declarations from an intelligence agency he declined to name.