Clinton’s Emails ‘Would Absolutely Represent a Security Threat’; 1,340 Had Classified Info
by Susan Jones, CNSnews:
Hillary Clinton used her private, unsecured email server for government business, and according to the Intelligence Community Inspector General, at least two of those emails are “top secret” and others are even more sensitive, containing information from “Special Access Programs” that could reveal details about intelligence sources.
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), a member of the Senate intelligence committee, said those emails “would absolutely represent a security threat” to the United States if a foreign government got ahold of them. “There are about 1,340 e-mails that we know of so far that had classified information, whether it be sensitive classified or top secret,” Lankford told “Fox News Sunday.”
“And there’s been a lot of conversation about the — what they call S.A.P., Special Access Program, information that’s also included. It’s been referred to as above top secret. It’s not above quote/unquote ‘top secret.’ It’s a special compartmentalized top secret information where only certain individuals should be able to see this information. So, yes, it is a major risk to have this kind of information outside of a government server.”
When Fox News broke the story last week, Clinton’s campaign spokesman Brian Fallon suggested that the Democrat-appointed IG was working with Republicans to discredit Clinton.
Clinton herself said the most sensitive information “likely” was “the forwarding of a New York Times article” about a drone program.
“No, we’re not just talking about a newspaper article,” Lankford told host Chris Wallace. “Again, it’s the conversation that — that interchanges between staff here. This whole Clinton procedure of trying to attack the messenger and to say the messenger must be a member of the right-wing, vast conspiracy that’s out there, that must be trying to instigate something — the inspector general is an Obama appointee, is doing his job.
“He has been asked by a committee to keep the committee up to date. He has continued to be able to keep the committees, both in the House and the Senate, up to date. That is his task. And the inspector general is not the one that’s designating these (e-mails) as sensitive, classified or top secret. That is within the (Intelligence) community or that is within State Department.
“And even State Department has continued to redact these documents over and over again, say this shouldn’t go out public. This includes methods, this includes procedures, this includes human intelligence, this includes foreign and government information. Those are on their face classified information.
