By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--August 17, 2015
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While media coverage has focused on a half-dozen of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s personal emails containing sensitive intelligence, the total number of her private emails identified by an ongoing State Department review as having contained classified data has ballooned to 60, officials told The Washington Times. That figure is current through the end of July and is likely to grow as officials wade through a total of 30,000 work-related emails that passed through her personal email server, officials said. The process is expected to take months. The 60 emails are among those that have been reviewed and cleared for release under the Freedom of Information Act as part of a open-records lawsuit. Some of the emails have multiple redactions for classified information. Among the first 60 flagged emails, nearly all contained classified secrets at the lowest level of “confidential” and one contained information at the intermediate level of “secret,” officials told the Times. Those 60 emails do not include two emails identified in recent days by Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III as containing “top-secret” information possibly derived from Pentagon satellites, drones or intercepts, which is some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets.There's a school of thought, especially among doom-and-gloom conservatives, that none of this is going to matter because the average voter just doesn't care about the IT nuances of a private server and what-not - even if it is demonstrated that Hillary clearly broke the law and lied about it. It's going to be Lying About Sex 2015, not an important enough lie to matter. I sort of agree if that's as far as it goes, and that's why the recovery of a server backup is so important. There's a reason Hillary deleted all those e-mails, and it's not because she didn't want us to read about her yoga routines. (Besides, the thought of Hillary doing yoga . . . yeah, I don't want to read about it either.) This is ultimately going to come down to what's found on that server. If she was recklessly putting top-secret material at risk of exposure, or if she was talking to Sid Blumenthal about how to further cover her Benghazi lies, or if she was blatantly pimping for Clinton Foundation payola while talking to foreign officials as part of her duties as Secretary of State . . . that's when we've got something that could take her out of the race. So let's get on with it. That company knows perfectly well if it made a backup of the server. Let's see it and see it now. Joe Biden's not getting any younger, you know.
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