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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Intel Community and DOS IGs found that HRC "emails were not retroactively classified" [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)109. At best, the off-the-books communication is insubordinate.
At worst, well... When "We the People" don't know what's being done in our name, anything goes.
An example from WikiLeaks (which shows why the hate for Julian Assange):
WikiLeaks' Stratfor Dump Lifts Lid on Intelligence-Industrial Complex
WikiLeaks' latest release, of hacked emails from Stratfor, shines light on the murky world of private intelligence-gathering
by Pratap Chatterjee
Published on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 by The Guardian/UK
What price bad intelligence? Some 5m internal emails from Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based company that brands itself as a "global intelligence" provider, were recently obtained by Anonymous, the hacker collective, and are being released in batches by WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website, starting Monday.
The most striking revelation from the latest disclosure is not simply the military-industrial complex that conspires to spy on citizens, activists and trouble-causers, but the extremely low quality of the information available to the highest bidder. Clients of the company include Dow Chemical, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, as well as US government agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Marines.
SNIP...
Assange notes that Stratfor is also seeking to profit directly from this information by partnering in an apparent hedge-fund venture with Shea Morenz, a former Goldman Sachs managing director. He points to an August 2011 document, marked "DO NOT SHARE OR DISCUSS", from Stratfor CEO George Friedman, which says:
"What StratCap will do is use our Stratfor's intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments, particularly government bonds, currencies and the like."
CONTINUED...
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/28-10
There are more, but, from what I understand, it's against the law for people who work in federal government to read them.
Thank you for the information and analysis, leveymg. Each OP of yours adds to what is worth knowing.
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Intel Community and DOS IGs found that HRC "emails were not retroactively classified" [View all]
leveymg
Jun 2016
OP
Brock, Obama, et al Just Trying To Get Her To Safety... In The WHITE HOUSE... Where She Will Be Safe
CorporatistNation
Jun 2016
#99
Every federal agency is supposed to have one. Hillary never appointed hers. The current DOS IG has
leveymg
Jun 2016
#18
Your OP is what's called in football terms, a "Hail Mary", a last second attempt at victory.
brush
Jun 2016
#79
There's no clinch here. She may be presumed to be the nominee, but that's not a clinch.
Zen Democrat
Jun 2016
#85
MSNBC has already said they will declared her the presumptive nominee tomorrow . . .
brush
Jun 2016
#89
where did you get the information that another report from a different IG would be issued?
Voice for Peace
Jun 2016
#5
That was a Joint Statement with the DOS on the emails that DOS first released last summer
leveymg
Jun 2016
#20
That is correct. The Joint Statement above is from last July. The IG Report is imminent, perhaps
leveymg
Jun 2016
#73
Here's the same Joint Statement as posted by the office of the Director of National Intelligence
leveymg
Jun 2016
#23
WaPo (03/10/16) HRC campaign fears "the two (IG) offices issue a report that is damaging to Clinton"
leveymg
Jun 2016
#110
it's unfathomable to me that indictment would not be recommended by Comey
Voice for Peace
Jun 2016
#111
Hence Hillary's shift in stance from "not classified" to "not *marked* classified".
winter is coming
Jun 2016
#7
This is a Dept State and Intel Coimmunity statement the Clinton campaign misrepresented. Censor it?
leveymg
Jun 2016
#26
Have you promoted yourself to official timekeeper? You add so much to discussion with all these
JudyM
Jun 2016
#38
They probably thought it necessary to keep the Clinton campaign machine together. This was the only
leveymg
Jun 2016
#50
According to Paul, and I've also read it, the FBI has had a complete set of all 60,000 emails
leveymg
Jun 2016
#83
I actually don't expect the FBI Report will make a recommendation. But it will confirm the IC IG
leveymg
Jun 2016
#65
Actually, Tyler Drumheller's sources had active security clearances and took classified materials
leveymg
Jun 2016
#57
That's somebody's opinion an Op-ed and spin from a discredited advocacy site. Specific intent isn't
leveymg
Jun 2016
#28
How about arrogant? Out of touch with reality? Both seem very possible to me.
Seeinghope
Jun 2016
#59
Deutch was not prosecuted and Petraeus knowingly gave away classified material.
randome
Jun 2016
#17
Neither of them became the Democratic Party nominee for President, either. Meh to you.
leveymg
Jun 2016
#30
Cavalier about classified information, lies about it, and then wants to be elected POTUS.
senz
Jun 2016
#31
Hillary is going to find "the end of the line" a lot more uncomfortable than Bernie.
leveymg
Jun 2016
#44
My sources tell me that Democrat Since Birth does indeed wear your scorn as a medal.
Trust Buster
Jun 2016
#87
"rather these emails contained classified information WHEN THEY WERE GENERATED"
antigop
Jun 2016
#94