How can anyone not find this situation that Hillary Clinton finds herself in a ticking time bomb for Democrats if she's chosen as the Democratic presidential nominee?
Intelligence officials have discovered sensitive national security information on Hillary Clinton’s server that goes beyond the “top secret” level, the intelligence community inspector general told lawmakers in a letter last week.
In a copy of the Jan. 14 correspondence obtained by POLITICO, Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III told both the Senate Intelligence and Senate Foreign Relations committees that intelligence agencies found messages relating to what are known as “special access programs,” or SAP. That’s an even more restricted subcategory of sensitive compartmented information, or SCI, top secret national security information derived from sensitive intelligence sources.
“To date, I have received two sworn declarations from one [intelligence community agency],” the letter reads. “These declarations cover several dozen emails containing classified information determined by the [intelligence community agency] to be at the confidential, secret, and top secret/sap levels. According to the declarant, these documents contain information derived from classified [intelligence community agency]sources.”
These latest emails — containing information considered “top secret, special access program” — are in addition to the hundreds of others presently in contention between the State Department and intelligence agencies over their classification.
The State Department, which previously insisted there was no classified information found on Clinton's personal non-sanctioned email system, is backing away from that stand now, in light of the obvious reality that it is not correct.
“Our FOIA review process is still ongoing and once that process is complete if it is determined that information should be classified as top secret then we’ll do so, as we have consistently done throughout the process,” [State Department spokesman John Kirby] said.
While this may not produce any fallout in terms of charges related to her handling of classified information, can anyone doubt that if it were anyone but Hillary Clinton, or a similar member of the political elite, they would be facing serious legal trouble, perhaps already even be in custody?