It’s Unclear If The Lone Staffer Hillary Put In Charge Of Searching Her Emails Had Security Clearance

From The Daily Caller:

Hillary Clinton put a single longtime aide in charge of determining which of her emails were personal and which were work-related, raising questions over how involved the former secretary of state was in the process and over whether the staffer had a security clearance to handle classified information.

Heather Samuelson, 34, was tapped to sift through Clinton’s emails, Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s State Department chief of staff, told the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Thursday, a GOP source told Politico.

Possibly another cannon fodder candidate to sacrifice to the FBI.

Clinton Emails Were Born Classified

From Andy C. McCarthy at National Review:

My column on the home-page today is a refutation of the laughable defense of Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information offered by the former Obama-appointed U.S. attorney who gave David Petraeus a sweetheart misdemeanor plea deal over his mishandling of classified information … and who is now a donor to Clinton’s presidential campaign.

In it, I make a point that our friend Shannen Coffin nailed last night on Megyn Kelly’s Fox News program: Mrs. Clinton’s claim that she was unaware that many of her emails contained classified information is untenable – in fact, it is remarkable that she and her pom-pom squad (to say nothing of Obama administration officials) dare to make it with a straight face.

Clinton rationalizes that because the emails were not stamped classified, she could not have been expected to know they were classified. As I’ve been emphasizing since March, she is trying to exploit the public’s unfamiliarity with the distinction between classified documents and classified information – the former are obviously classified because they are marked as such; the latter, because of its nature, is well known to national security officials to be classified – regardless of whether it is marked as such or even written down at all.

IS anyone shocked that Hillary is spinning, qualifying, and hedging with regards to the emails?

Rehashing Talking Points from Camp Clinton

From Andy C. McCarthy at National Review:

The former prosecutor who let Petraeus slide weighs in on the e-mail scandal.

Well, well, well: The Obama-appointed prosecutor who gave Obama’s former CIA director a sweetheart plea deal when he was caught mishandling classified information now says there’s no case against Obama’s former secretary of state for mishandling classified information. How very persuasive.

Oh, and did I mention that the Obama-appointed prosecutor is a donor to the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign?

In what appears to be an audition for attorney general in a hoped-for Clinton II administration, Anne M. Tompkins, the former U.S. attorney for the western district of North Carolina (appointed by President Obama in 2010), has penned an op-ed for USA Today arguing that Hillary Clinton is not guilty of “knowingly sending or receiving classified materials improperly.”

Understand: Ms. Tompkins has had nothing to do with the FBI’s investigation of Mrs. Clinton’s handling of classified information through an unauthorized private e-mail system. She is not privy to the evidence the FBI is gathering — she knows no more about the case than anyone else who reads the papers. To exonerate Clinton, she relies on nothing other than her status as the government lawyer who oversaw the prosecution of David Petraeus.

Deflect, delay, deny, obfuscate, spin, and of course, lie. Clinton SOP by herself, her surrogates, allies, and media sycophants.

Hillary -- Don't Look Down!

From The American Thinker Blog:

If you listen to Hillary Clinton, or speak with her liberal supporters, what all will insist is that the email scandal now enveloping her campaign is all about politics. Hillary repeated the mantra recently in Iowa at a contentious news conference. Talk to almost any Hillary supporter and they will say the same.
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Hillary violated federal law with respect to both keeping and securing records for posterity, and in mishandling national security documents. There is nothing really to quibble about here. Everybody who has worked with classified material knows and understands that Hillary violated federal statutes regarding the preservation of records and most critically of those related to securing classified material.

This is not supposition. It is already part of the public record. Hillary did not comply with the requirements of the Federal Records Act to preserve all of her official work-related correspondence, classified or not. This was pretty obvious at the outset, back in March when the existence of her email server was revealed.
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Hillary is like a cartoon character that’s run off the cliff but keeps aloft by churning its legs and not looking down. She and her supporters know that once she acknowledges this is a legal matter and not just politics, she’ll crash and become a puff of dust in the deep and distant canyon.

Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip!!

Hillary Clinton's Aides Could Face Prosecution for Mishandling Classified Material

From Breitbart's Big Government:

Aides to Hillary Clinton during her tenure as Secretary of State could face prosecution for mishandling classified material. The FBI is now investigating how such material wound up in Hillary’s inbox.

The noose is slowly tightening.