The John Podesta emails released by Wikileaks are by and large mundane. But occasionally you find a real stunner. In this case it is clear the contents of the classified emails that Hillary sent/received over her private server where known way outside the State Department. While preparing for a big email presser, team Clinton exposes how much they also knew about the emails and their classified content.

Titled: “Re: We haven’t had a good war with NYT in awhile”, circa Nov 2015

Heather talked to I believe Alex gerlach [sic] at State, who said they were hearing only one email had so far been ruled out as Top Secret. Separately, two reporters who were trying to confirm Gerstein’s report with ODNI reported back to us that they were hearing the same.

Alec Gerlach is/was the Department of State Spokesman. The person writing this portion of the email chain was Brian Fallon, the Clinton Campaign’s national press secretary. Note how Fallon is describing how two reporters and the State Department spokesman are providing the Clinton campaign intel on the status of classified emails. “Heather” is more than likely Heather Samuelson, a Clinton Campaign lawyer.

So the fact all these people are discussing the classified emails Hillary communicated unprotected is not an issue. It is the fact they all seem to know the contents of the emails:

The rumor was not that ODNI had completed the review and determined only one was not TS and the other was, but rather that they had only reached a definitive conclusion on the one (we think the North Korea email that supposedly relied on satellite imagery) and were still deciding on the other.

To which the campaign’s Traveling Press Secretary, Nick Merrill, responds:

That’s good intel. And frankly if we had to live with just one[,] better for it to be the one about a news article that discusses the drone operation.

So now we know one email had classified information that could only be gleaned from satellite imagery (which tells our enemies what we can see from space so they can adjust) and the other was on how drone operations work. And apparently Clinton’s top campaign staff knew the contents as well since they banter on and on about them with what appears to be first hand knowledge.

All this ties in nicely with information gleaned from the recently released FBI documents. Specifically on how Hillary Clinton issued orders about private email services and protecting classified material:

Yet early in her tenure she advised staffers against it.

“Clinton sent out an all-staff cable that personal email should not be used day-to-day for business purposes and that personal email is not secure, so do not use them for business purposes,” according to an FBI report released as part of a 100-page document dump.

So not only did Clinton violate her own directives on classified materials and private email services, she compounded the exposure by allowing her campaign team inside knowledge of the contents, which they IN TURN emailed around unsecured among themselves!

To be fair, there were news reports on the drone operations and satellite data, but no one should have confirmed or denied details (by HRC or her lawyers if they had clearances).

And these are the people we should be handing the leadership of our great country over to???

 

Tags: Classified Emails, Drones, North Korea