
Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent 36 chains contained Secret information at the time and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Here’s an extract from Director Comey’s initial press release that describes the security status of thirty-thousand work-related emails that Hillary’s lawyers reluctantly turned over to the FBI:Ĭlick here for the complete collection of conduct and ethics essaysįrom the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Despite her repeated denials, she used this process for conveying and receiving classified information. Instead, America’s chief diplomat continued to use her beloved Blackberry and a personal email account that routed messages through a private server installed at her home. When Hillary was anointed Secretary of State she turned up her nose at the thought (horrors!) of a email address. For now, let’s address the email scandal of which so much hash has been made. Still, there’s little doubt that James Comey’s maneuverings created the perfect storm of a dilemma. We’ll know in a few days whether Comey’s letter to Congress was indeed the equivalent of running over Hillary’s quest for the Presidency with an “18-wheeler” (as DNC chair Donna Brazile put it) or simply another annoying distraction in a most annoying Presidential campaign.

In fact, it’s not just strange it’s unprecedented and it is deeply troubling.” One day after the FBI Director’s startling reveal about a new trove of emails, Hillary took a swing at the very same official who, in an equally “unprecedented” move, had recently exonerated her from criminal liability. “It’s pretty strange to put something like that out with such little information right before an election. To avoid anointing Trump, the FBI Director falls into a trap of his own makingįor Police Issues by Julius (Jay) Wachtel.
