Communication not involving information related to significant national security concerns that was sent to various State Department employees by foreign officials and a variety of sources, then forwarded by her staff to Hillary’s private e-mail server has been reclassified from unclassified to classified by the Trump regime. Those former State employees are now being warned that they may have committed security violations by the Trump regime. This is Trump’s response to being caught red handed extorting the prime minister of Ukraine. Hillary’s fucking e-mails. Give fodder to Fox News. Double down on the abuse of the power of the office of the President. Prove Kafka prescient.
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As many as 130 officials have been contacted in recent weeks by State Department investigators — a list that includes senior officials who reported directly to Clinton as well as others in lower-level jobs whose emails were at some point relayed to her inbox, said current and former State Department officials. Those targeted were notified that emails they sent years ago have been retroactively classified and now constitute potential security violations, according to letters reviewed by The Washington Post.
Of course, Trump regime apparatchiks are saying that this has nothing to do with politics, that it took months and months to go through all those e-mails, but stories are slipping out that the employees forced to do the investigation know damn well that the investigation is absurd. Click the link (pay wall) where the absurd claim is documented. Here’s how bad it is:
“I’d like to think that this is just routine, but something strange is going on,” said Jeffrey Feltman, a former assistant secretary for Near East Affairs. In early 2018 Feltman received a letter informing him that a half dozen of his messages included classified information. Then a few weeks ago he was found culpable for more than 50 emails that contained classified information.
“A couple of the emails cited by State as problems were sent after my May 2012 retirement, when I was already working for the United Nations,” he said.
Trump repeatedly accuses the press and Democrats of doing exactly what he is doing here, going on a witch hunt. The good news for us is that he’s a fucking moron who has all of the subtlety of a dead skunk in the road. The stench of his abuse of power is enough to awaken the comatose.
In most cases the bureaucrats and political appointees didn’t send the emails directly to Clinton, but passed them to William Burns, who served as deputy secretary of state, or Jake Sullivan, the former director of policy planning at the State Department. Burns and Sullivan then forwarded the messages to Clinton’s private email.
This kind of abuse of power is exactly like what happened under USSR controlled Czechoslovakia. It’s straight out of a Kafka novel. Employees of State are being blamed retroactively for things they did that were completely legal and proper when they did them. Trump is doubling down on his abuse of the power of his office. He must be impeached and the voters must pass judgment on the senators who would enable the demented extortionist Donald Trump to remain in office.