In my Aug. 21, post, “Did Hillary Clinton’s naiveté unintentionally tip off Benghazi attackers?” you may recall my asking rhetorically, how did she carry out the normal day to day business of secretary of state not knowing what was and wasn’t classified, regardless if it was marked as such or not.
(Cartoon courtesy of cleveland.com)
We now know that some 400 documents provided in the sporadic State Department dump were later classified. They contained information on the Iran nuclear discussions, spy satellites and drone strikes. Does anyone believe that Hillary Clinton had no idea these documents were classified? And as I stated in August, even her itinerary should have been considered classified.
“The Clinton team contends that these emails were not stamped classified until after the fact,” writes Kimberly Strassel in the Wall Street Journal, “But intelligence experts note many were ‘born’ classified – that is, the nature of the information required that they be handled as classified from the start.” My point, but better stated.
Need further proof of her naiveté? Clinton has said that her server was on property guarded by the Secret Service, and there were no security breaches, as if hackers needed to physically have hands-on her computer/server to obtain information.
The American people deserve to know what communications transpired between Clinton and others on the reduction of security at the Benghazi consulate facility despite five months of warnings; the decision not to respond to the attack; and the decision to blame the video for the attack.
We need answers on these issues, preferably in the form of documentation, but at least from Clinton herself under oath later this month.
