What are the little “(c)” marks on these emails?
Hillary Clinton didn’t bother to ask that question, didn’t notice the marks, had good reason to think they were inaccurate, or disregarded that they stood for “confidential.”
The tale of two emails with the cryptic marks in their text illustrates the complexity of the politically charged debate over Clinton’s use of a private email server for official business when she was secretary of state. It also calls into question the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s long-standing insistence that she never sent or received emails “marked classified.”
“That’s not true,” FBI Director James Comey said of Clinton’s frequent assertion when he was questioned at a House committee hearing last week.
The point may be central to a request Republicans have promised to make for Comey to investigate whether Clinton lied to Congress. She used the formulation during her almost 11 hours of testimony in October before a House committee investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
In a television interview on Friday, Clinton modified her standard answer on whether she had sent or received classified information on her private account, now saying she didn’t “believe” she had done so. “As I have said many times, I certainly did not believe that I received or sent any material that was classified,” she told CNN.
John Kirby, the spokesman, said the emails were “call sheets,” routine briefing documents that provide a secretary of state with succinct information before a planned phone call to a foreign leader. While they are initially labeled confidential, Kirby said, they are routinely downgraded to “sensitive but unclassified” or unclassified “once it is clear that the secretary intends to make a call.”
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Just looking at this part of the email issue, she's either a liar, incompetent or plain stupid. My vote is for the first, closely followed by the second, with stupid trailing last as she realizes that she's been caught.
ReplyDeleteAnyone working in a position involving any level of classified material understand what "c"lassified, secret and top secret codes are. Hillary is not stupid. She and the democrats took their time turning over material because they prepared their explanations ahead of time. She is plainly deceitful!
ReplyDeletethe best part in all this would be if Russia really hacked her email and just like snowden released all of it. Even the stuff she deleted and did not give the fbi.
ReplyDeleteI keep hearing Republicans promised to request Comey to investigate perjury against Killary for lying to Congress. Why was that not done when the hearing was concluded. Has this request been made. If not when will it be made? This appears to be another Republican talking points with no action. They are as bad as the DemocRATS. The FBI is not off for 7 Weeks.
ReplyDeleteWe aren't that stupid. Come on!!
ReplyDeleteOh...so the whole thing is just lack of training! From the day she took office as a Senator until she stepped down as Sec. of State, no one explained to Her Majesty what the little (c) meant. /rolls eyes/
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ReplyDelete'Little (c) marks are for the little people.'
I'm not a little people so of course they'd hold no interest to me.
Signed
Dowager Duchess of Chappaqua
The shrew that cannot be tamed.
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