January 19, 2016

State Dept. Shares Blame for Clinton’s Secrets

And she handled material beyond top secret.

Turns out the State Department knew all along that Hillary Clinton operated with a private email server, contrary to its initial claim that it had no idea of the former secretary’s email habits. This means that State could have possibly violated the Freedom of Information Act when anyone requested Clinton’s correspondence in the past. It encouraged a system in which Clinton mishandled some of the nation’s top secrets.

In an email exchange August 2011, Clinton lackey Huma Abedin asked the State Department for a Blackberry for Clinton. Her private one wasn’t working, though it might have been because Clinton’s homebrew email server was acting up. Sure, State replied, did Clinton want two, one for her private use and another set up to an official email account — one that could be hidden by FIOA requests? (And this email exchange in Obama’s “Most transparent administration in history”) “Let’s discuss the state blackberry,” Abedin wrote, “doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.”

Not only did Clinton’s people refuse an official government email account, the State department was willing to set up a system in which Clinton could hide her communication from the American people. The FBI turned its attention to Clinton’s dealings with her “nonprofit” foundation. Perhaps it should also turn its attention to the State Department. If we’re uncomfortable with that idea — that a few bungled FOIA requests are expected as part of dealing with big government — then we’ve become too comfortable with government institutions operating unjustly with immunity.

Finally, speaking of secrets, Hillary handled the most secret information — beyond even top secret. According to an inspector general letter to Congress, “To date, I have received two sworn declarations from one [intelligence community] element. These declarations cover several dozen emails containing classified information determined by the IC element to be at the confidential, secret, and top secret/sap levels. According to the declarant, these documents contain information derived from classified IC element sources.” SAP (“special access programs”) information is intensely guarded — there’s nothing more highly classified — and there’s no way Clinton didn’t know exactly what she was doing.

Who We Are

The Patriot Post is a highly acclaimed weekday digest of news analysis, policy and opinion written from the heartland — as opposed to the MSM’s ubiquitous Beltway echo chambers — for grassroots leaders nationwide. More

What We Offer

On the Web

We provide solid conservative perspective on the most important issues, including analysis, opinion columns, headline summaries, memes, cartoons and much more.

Via Email

Choose our full-length Digest or our quick-reading Snapshot for a summary of important news. We also offer Cartoons & Memes on Monday and Alexander’s column on Wednesday.

Our Mission

The Patriot Post is steadfast in our mission to extend the endowment of Liberty to the next generation by advocating for individual rights and responsibilities, supporting the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and promoting free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values. We are a rock-solid conservative touchstone for the expanding ranks of grassroots Americans Patriots from all walks of life. Our mission and operation budgets are not financed by any political or special interest groups, and to protect our editorial integrity, we accept no advertising. We are sustained solely by you. Please support The Patriot Fund today!


The Patriot Post and Patriot Foundation Trust, in keeping with our Military Mission of Service to our uniformed service members and veterans, are proud to support and promote the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, both the Honoring the Sacrifice and Warrior Freedom Service Dogs aiding wounded veterans, the National Veterans Entrepreneurship Program, the Folds of Honor outreach, and Officer Christian Fellowship, the Air University Foundation, and Naval War College Foundation, and the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. "Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for his friends." (John 15:13)

★ PUBLIUS ★

“Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!” —George Washington

Please join us in prayer for our nation — that righteous leaders would rise and prevail and we would be united as Americans. Pray also for the protection of our Military Patriots, Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please lift up your Patriot team and our mission to support and defend our Republic's Founding Principle of Liberty, that the fires of freedom would be ignited in the hearts and minds of our countrymen.

The Patriot Post is protected speech, as enumerated in the First Amendment and enforced by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, in accordance with the endowed and unalienable Rights of All Mankind.

Copyright © 2024 The Patriot Post. All Rights Reserved.

The Patriot Post does not support Internet Explorer. We recommend installing the latest version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome.