Octopus Overlords

YellowKing wrote:Am I the only one perturbed that the potential next leaders of the free world are sniping back and forth on Twitter like a couple of 15-year olds? Some of us have to act like professionals in our jobs.

YellowKing wrote:Am I the only one perturbed that the potential next leaders of the free world are sniping back and forth on Twitter like a couple of 15-year olds? Some of us have to act like professionals in our jobs.

YellowKing wrote:Am I the only one perturbed that the potential next leaders of the free world are sniping back and forth on Twitter like a couple of 15-year olds? Some of us have to act like professionals in our jobs.

Newly released State Department emails help reveal how a major Clinton Foundation donor was placed on a sensitive government intelligence advisory board even though he had no obvious experience in the field, a decision that appeared to baffle the department’s professional staff.

The emails further reveal how, after inquiries from ABC News, the Clinton staff sought to “protect the name” of the Secretary, “stall” the ABC News reporter and ultimately accept the resignation of the donor just two days later.

“The true answer is simply that S staff (Cheryl Mills) added him,” wrote Wade Boese, who was Chief of Staff for the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, in an email to Mannina, the press aide. “Raj was not on the list sent to S; he was added at their insistence.”

Mills, a former deputy White House counsel, was serving as Clinton’s chief of staff at the time, and has been a longtime legal and political advisor.

LordMortis wrote:I hate Hillary more than the next guy but when did Bill ever get accused of sexually assaulting someone? I thought he was basically accused of having sex from a position of power. While it's a shitty thing to do it's a far cry from assault. Which affair wasn't an affair but rather was an assault?

LordMortis wrote:I hate Hillary more than the next guy but when did Bill ever get accused of sexually assaulting someone? I thought he was basically accused of having sex from a position of power. While it's a shitty thing to do it's a far cry from assault. Which affair wasn't an affair but rather was an assault?

Hillary Clinton, from the moment her exclusive use of personal email for government business was exposed, has claimed nothing she sent or received was marked classified at the time.

But a 2012 email released by the State Department appears to challenge that claim because it carries a classified code known as a “portion marking” - and that marking was on the email when it was sent directly to Clinton’s account.

The “C” - which means it was marked classified at the confidential level - is in the left-hand-margin and relates to an April 2012 phone call with Malawi's first female president, Joyce Banda, who took power after the death of President Mutharika in 2012.

"(C) Purpose of Call: to offer condolences on the passing of President Mukharika and congratulate President Banda on her recent swearing in."

Everything after that was fully redacted before it was publicly released by the State Department -- a sign that the information was classified at the time and dealt with sensitive government deliberations.

A US government source said there are other Clinton emails with classified markings, or marked classified, beyond the April 2012 document.

Zarathud wrote:No one who isn't voting for Trump anyway cares, Rip. E-mail is boring.

Zarathud wrote:No one who isn't voting for Trump anyway cares, Rip. E-mail is boring.

Chrisoc13 wrote:

Zarathud wrote:No one who isn't voting for Trump anyway cares, Rip. E-mail is boring.

I'm not voting for trump and I care.

LordMortis wrote:

Chrisoc13 wrote:

Zarathud wrote:No one who isn't voting for Trump anyway cares, Rip. E-mail is boring.

I'm not voting for trump and I care.

I'm not voting for Trump and I care enough to want the truth but I can wait for Justice to tell me what that truth is.

RunningMn9 wrote:I care to a degree, but the outrage from people like Rip and MSD has nothing to do with the potential crime itself. The outrage is based solely on who may have done it. I would have the same reaction to anyone who may have potentially spilled classified information. And for me at least, my level of outrage is dictated by the intent behind the spillage. Was it from negligence? An accident? Intentionally spilling info to enemies? Etc. The motivation drives my outrage, not the identity of the spiller.

I believe that SecState's shouldn't have private email servers used for public business. I don't believe that a SecState should go to jail because they had a private email server used for public business - UNLESS the FBI can demonstrate that the private email server's *purpose* was spilling classified information.

Zarathud wrote:No one who isn't voting for Trump anyway cares, Rip. E-mail is boring.

RunningMn9 wrote:He uses his wife to give himself an air of authority on this topic.

msduncan wrote: Then again, so many people these days are OK with floods of illegal immigrants from Mexico and South America coming across the borders without vetting them at all. It's really not surprising that some are A-OK with the government corruption and politicians that are above the law that you see in so many of these Latin american countries.

msduncan wrote:I'm using my wife because she works for the Department of Defense and has been advised that she would be squashed like a bug for just forwarding an 'Official Use Only' email.

msduncan wrote:Translation: law breaking is ok if my guy or gal does it.

msduncan wrote:It's a matter of whether we are going to let people in government positions abuse the law in this country without consequences just because it bores you or you want them to be elected. Any other small time government employee or citizen that doesn't have power would be tossed in the lockup.