Another 57 Clinton email threads contain foreign governments' information

[Dishonesty - Mark Of The Clintons]

"Here's my personal email," Hillary Clinton wrote to U.S.
special envoy George Mitchell on a summer Sunday in 2010 as he
telephoned one European official after another in an effort to
keep peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians on
track.

"Pls use this for reply," Clinton wrote in her email, sent from
the clintonemail.com account she set up on an unsecured, private
server in her New York home for her work as secretary of state.

Over the following hours, Mitchell wrote back to Clinton with
summaries of his conversations, including one with Spain's
foreign minister, who had briefed him on discussions with
Palestinian leaders. The State Department has redacted the
summary of the minister's thoughts, saying it is classified
information.

The exchange is among dozens in a new batch of Clinton's emails
released this week that shed further light on how Clinton
handled information while she was secretary of state from 2009
to 2013.

Clinton, front-runner to be the Democratic candidate in the
November 2016 presidential election, has faced steady criticism
from political opponents since it emerged in March that she used
a private set-up rather than a government-issued state.gov email
address.

Clinton has maintained she did nothing wrong. She says she sent
no information via email that was classified at the time, and
received no material marked that way.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is examining Clinton's
server to see whether information was mishandled. No evidence
has emerged suggesting Clinton's email practices harmed national
security.

A review last month by Reuters of previously released Clinton
emails found 30 email threads that the State Department has
marked to show they include information shared in confidence by
foreign government officials, from prime ministers to spy chiefs.

U.S. government regulations examined by Reuters say this sort of
information, whether written or spoken, must be classified from
the start, and handled through secure, government-controlled
channels.

The Clinton-Mitchell correspondence is one of 57 email threads
found by Reuters in the latest batch of emails released on
Monday that the State Department has marked as including the
same type of information.

In all the 87 email threads examined by Reuters, the State
Department has blanked out the confidential information in the
public copies, adding the classification code "1.4(B)", denoting
foreign government information.

This is the only kind of information that presidential executive
orders say is "presumed" to likely harm national security if
wrongly disclosed. State Department regulations describe it as
the "most important category of national security information"
its officials encounter.

If the State Department's markings are correct, it appears that
Clinton and her senior staff routinely did not follow the
regulations in the department's Foreign Affairs Manual, which
tells employees they "must" safeguard foreign government
information by treating it as classified.

"It's hard to square the secretary's conduct with the strict
letter of the FAM," Steven Aftergood, the director of the
Federation of American Scientists' government secrecy project,
said in an email.

The department and spokesmen for Clinton have declined requests
to explain this apparent lapse.

UNCLEAR HOW CLOSELY REGULATIONS FOLLOWED

It is not clear if Clinton approached classified information
differently than other secretaries of state before or after.

Several career diplomats, who joined the department before
Clinton's tenure, also sent foreign government information
through their unclassified .gov email accounts, the marked
redactions on Clinton's emails show, suggesting that the
regulations may be commonly ignored in favor of speedier
communications.

Asked whether John Kerry, the current secretary of state, has
sent such information via unsecured channels, a State Department
spokesman declined to say either way.

The department declined to say whether Clinton adhered to the
relevant regulations and laws while she was in charge, or
whether the secretary of state is even bound by the department's
regulations.

The department has said the information in some of Clinton's
emails is being newly classified now, but it has also said it
cannot know for sure whether the information should have been
handled as classified all along.

Nearly 8,000 emails have been released, about a quarter of the
total Clinton returned to the department last year. They are
being published in monthly batches following a federal judge's
orders. The State Department has redacted classified information
from nearly 200 of them so far. All but one of them is marked
"Confidential," the lowest level of classified information.

Several emails show Clinton and her staff were mindful of
handling sensitive information with care: there are repeated
references to setting up conversations over secure telephone
lines.

In a September 2010 email, Jake Sullivan, a senior aide now
working as an adviser for Clinton's presidential campaign, tells
Clinton he just met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu for several hours.

"Happy to talk secure at your convenience," he wrote. He went on
to summarize "highlights" from the conversation. Five or six
lines of text follow, all now blanked out, classified and
stamped "CONFIDENTIAL."

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[166p1]

HRC is dirty as hell ... and NOTHING is EVER going
to be done about it. Get used to the idea. She's
now "untouchable", too "holy".

Obama is pretty much in the same heavenly sphere too.

So, MOVE ON.