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In reply to the discussion: CNN continues to trumpet false narrative WRT the sending of "classified" emails [View all]Lee-Lee
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It's impossible to email between classified systems and unclassified ones just to prevent this kind of problem.
You can't email between the systems that hold this data and her email addresses. Your not supposed to ever use removable media between the two, a CD-R or USB Drive (when even allowed) is never allowed to to go into an unclassified system if it's ever been in a classified one, it must be labeled with the proper label. You can't read stuff on a classified system then retype or summarize it in your own words and pretend it is not classified.
To make that happen someone was either manually copying data from one to the other or they were using some form of removable media to copy and paste.
Both are a HUGE no-no, and whoever was doing that knew better. That person or persons need their clearance revoked immediately at a minimum.
The fact that the (c) classification marks supposedly showed up on some of the emails means they were other copied and pasted or scanned direct from classified documents, that doesn't just show up on its own. Who did that? That person had to knowingly be violating the protocols and regulations for handling classified information.
Who emailed her that data that was classified at the time? Where did they get that from? Why haven't they had their clearance removed?