On June 17, 2011 Hillary Clinton instructed aides to “remove headings and markings” from a talking points document and have it sent to her via a non-secure channel for an immediate meeting, likely on June 18, 2011. During this time, there was a gap in her schedule after visiting in Africa and the State Department was exclusively focused on coordinating support for the overthrow of Assad.
The very next day she published an Op-Ed in the largest circulation paper in the Middle East, owned by the Saudi Royal Family that called for Assad to accept western intervention in the Syrian civil war. Exactly one month later, to the day, Barack Obama called for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step down.
There are only two ways to take this email.
1. The talking points were not secure and her preference (but not requirement) to receive the information by secure server was simply out of prudence
or
2. The talking points contained classified information, were required to be sent by secure channels, and she requested to have them sent via non-secure channels if a secure channel could not be arranged.
There is no proof in the public record that indicates secure information was sent, what the FBI investigation has uncovered has yet to be revealed.
Consider, If there was no email sent per her instructions, and no response email was released that contained possible talking points or if her meeting was not of a secure nature, then no crime was committed.
However, there are significant indications that the talking points were for meetings that were of an extremely sensitive national security issue.
We know it is Very likely that the June 18, 2011 meeting was in the Middle east
Her travel schedule showed that she had just concluded a series of meetings in Africa 3 days earlier and was on her way to Guatemala for another meeting 5 days later.
.
On the day of this email, June 17, 2011 an op ed by Clinton was published in Asharq Al-Awsat Newspaper, this newspaper is the largest Pan-Arab reaching news publication and is (from the link above)
Although published under the name of a private company, the Saudi Research and Marketing Group, the paper was founded with the approval of the Saudi royal family and government ministers, and is noted for its support of the Saudi government.[2] The newspaper is owned by Faisal bin Salman, a member of the Saudi royal family.
The nature of her op ed was a call for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to accept western intervention and goes as follows:
Syria is headed toward a new political order -- and the Syrian people should be the ones to shape it. They should insist on accountability, but resist any temptation to exact revenge or reprisals that might split the country, and instead join together to build a democratic, peaceful and tolerant Syria.
Considering the answers to all these questions, the United States chooses to stand with the Syrian people and their universal rights. We condemn the Assad regime’s disregard for the will of its citizens and Iran’s insidious interference.
we know it is Very likely that the June 18, 2011 meeting was about syria and libya
While we don’t know that the talking points were for an unofficial meeting involving Syria, we do know from the New York Times that during this time period, the State Department was exclusively focused on Syria and Libya.
“There was a moment, around about June or July,” recalled Mr. Shapiro, the State Department’s Libya policy adviser, “when the situation on the ground seemed to settle into a stalemate and we weren’t sure we were winning, or at least winning quickly enough.”
We also know that, exactly two months later Barack Obama made his official demand for Assad to step aside in Syria.
American intelligence agencies gave regular briefings at the White House and the State Department concluding that Mr. Assad’s days were numbered, and on Aug. 18, 2011, Mr. Obama released a statement declaring that “the time has come for President Assad to step aside.”
I want to remind you now that no email was released to the public that showed Hillary Clinton’s instructions were followed, that titles and markings were removed from a talking point document and that this document was sent by an unsecure channel. This email was not found on her server and released to the public.
However, It is clear that there is a significant potential that the talking points that Hillary Clinton needed were for secret meetings related to a covert war against Assad and that these meetings took place in the Middle East.
While no email was released that showed these talking points, if an FBI investigation found a deleted email with talking points that contained classified information, and that this classified information was sent ‘nonsecure’ then a criminal indictment of Clinton or her staff/aides will be procured in this matter.
And even if these instructions did not produce a specific incident of the loss of control classified information, the implications of this email are significant. Considering the timing and agenda of the SoS at the time and the fact that the over 2,000 emails that contained classified information — including 22 emails that contained information that was deemed to be “top secret” — were found on Clinton’s server it should bring serious pause to every party superdelegate who has offered their support for Clinton as the democratic party nominee in the race for the Whitehouse.