State Dept jumped through hoops to allow Hillary atty to keep classified info

[Joe Cooper]

Normally, anyone storing classified material in unauthorized and unsecure
facilities would face charges. When the State Department first discovered
that Hillary Clinton’s secret e-mail system contained such information,
Patrick Kennedy requested that her attorney, David Kendall, destroy all
copies of the files in his possession. Kendall refused, and in a “quite
unusual” move, the State Department instead tried to accommodate his
possession of classified material by supplying him with a secure safe,
according to The Daily Beast’s Shane Harris and Tim Mak:

[Harris & Mak]

Newly released documents, obtained by The Daily Beast in coordination
with the James Madison Project under the Freedom of Information Act,
include legal correspondence and internal State Department communications
about Clinton’s emails. Those documents provide new details about how
officials tried to accommodate the former secretary of state and
presidential candidate.

In May 2015, a senior State Department official informed Clinton’s
lawyer, David Kendall, that government reviewers had found at least one
classified email among the messages she sent using a private account,
which she used exclusively while in office. That email was only part of
the “first tranche” of the review, a State Department employee noted at
the time, leaving open the possibility that more classified information
would be found, which it was.

Patrick F. Kennedy, the undersecretary of state for management, who had
worked under Clinton, asked Kendall to delete all electronic copies of
the message in his possession. (Copies were sent to the State
Department.)

But Kendall resisted, saying he needed a full record of his own of the
55,000 pages of emails Clinton had sent, in order to respond to
information requests from a House committee investigating the 2012
attacks on U.S. officials in Benghazi, Libya, and from the inspectors
general of the State Department and the intelligence agencies.

[/Harris & Mak]

So then the State Department sent the FBI to seize the files, right? Not
exactly:

[Harris & Mak]

There is no indication that Kennedy, who oversees physical and
information security for the State Department, protested the private
lawyer’s position or tried further to persuade Kendall to delete the
classified email. The message had been forwarded to Clinton by one of her
senior aides, Jacob Sullivan, in November 2012 and contained references
to the attack in Benghazi two months earlier.

Rather, within a few days, State Department employees were told to
develop a system that would let Kendall keep the emails in a State
Department-provided safe at his law firm in Washington, D.C., where he
and a partner had access to them.

[/Harris & Mak]

Ahem. Attorneys for people under investigation for potentially having
unlawful possession of classified information (18 USC 1924) do not get to
keep possession of those documents for themselves, no matter what
classification level they have been granted. Access to classified
information would be granted in a secure facility operated by the
government in a manner consonant with the classification levels involved.
Given that the information in these files reached the level of Top
Secret/Compartmented, that would require a Sensitive Compartmented
Information Facility (SCIF).

Furthermore, State wouldn’t have the authority to determine otherwise.
The Top Secret/Compartmented information came from intel sources outside
Foggy Bottom — NSA and Nationa Geospatial-Intelligence Agency among them.
Did either of those agencies concur with the decision to set up an ersatz
SCIF in Kendall’s office? Did State follow up with further site security
requirements, such as access control to Kendall’s office, armed guards,
and the like? Frankly, this looks like the kind of security decisions by
Kennedy that led to the sacking of the consulate in Benghazi, with a
pattern of disregard for security requirements that should have
disqualified him for government service long before this.

The request to destroy the records is also curious, too. Destruction of
classified material has to take place under certain conditions and
methods, in part to ensure the total destruction of the information. Why
would Kennedy just leave that in Kendall’s hands? On top of that, why
would Kennedy insist that the files — stored electronically, rather than
in the print-out format State got — be destroyed at all? That turned out
to be valuable evidence for investigators when the FBI finally got their
hands on them. Kendall must have realized this as well, and that might
explain why he was reluctant to give the files to Kennedy.

This has more than a whiff of an attempted cover-up, on top of an entire
scheme to cover up Hillary’s communications for four years.

Source: http://bit.ly/1U0JkTm

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the FBI's criminal investigation into
harriday Hillary's shady activities continues apace...


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