John Kerry Used
Private Email to Send Classified Material to Hillary Clinton
by John Hayward 3 Feb 2016
The State Department
admits that current Secretary of State John Kerry used
a “non-official account” to send classified material to his predecessor Hillary Clinton, who was using an unsecure,
off-the-books private server to handle her email.
The latest twist in the Clinton email scandal is an email
then-Senator Kerry sent in 2011, when he was the chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee, as described by The Hill:
The message referenced India, Afghanistan and Pakistan,
and was classified for containing information about foreign governments and
U.S. foreign relations.
“We all know this will be a troubled relationship because
that is it’s [sic] nature,” he wrote in one unredacted section. “But there are
real possibilities at this moment to put options to the test.”
Kerry’s email was classified at the “secret” level, which
is a higher level than “confidential” but lower than “top secret”
A note at the bottom of the message indicates that it was
sent from Kerry’s iPad.
The Associated
Press describes two more questionable Kerry emails:
Another email that Kerry sent to Clinton on his iPad,
from Aug. 28, 2012, was released in full on Friday with no redactions. Another
email from Feb. 4, 2012, apparently not sent from Kerry’s iPad, was classified
in full at the “confidential” or lowest level.
[State Department spokesman John] Kirby could not
immediately say if either of those two messages was sent from Kerry’s
non-official account.
That seems like an odd detail for the State Department
spokesman to be unclear about. The originating account for an email is not
difficult to view.
“There was no indication that the information in Kerry’s
email was considered classified at any level at the time it was sent or if
Kerry, then chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, would have
considered it particularly sensitive,” the AP adds. “Several hours after Kerry
sent the email, Clinton forwarded it to a staffer with the instructions ‘pls
print.'”
According to Kirby, the non-official account Kerry employed
to send these messages from his iPad is no longer active.
The Washington
Examiner notes these Kerry-Clinton emails were “included
among a small batch of records made public by the State Department Friday.”
Before we even get into the “born classified” argument
about foreign information, which would suggest some of these “retroactive”
classifications aren’t as retroactive as Administration apologists would like
us to believe, we should note these emails are further evidence of
Administration officials deliberately concealing the existence of
Clinton’s irregular email account.
We’ve already seen documentation proving that President Obama lied when he claimed to be unaware of Clinton’s
homebrew email server – he sent numerous messages
to the ClintonEmail.com address.
Now we have documented proof that John Kerry knew about
her email in 2011, when he was in the Senate… but the State Department under
Secretary of State Kerry didn’t admit the existence of Clinton’s server, or any
of her hidden emails, until forced
to do so by the House Benghazi Committee.
Somehow that very important detail gets overlooked in
much of the media coverage of Clinton’s email scandal. Her talking points about
“voluntary disclosure” and “transparency” could not be more false. All of her
email was deliberately hidden from Congress, the courts, and the
American people. It required an active conspiracy by numerous State
Department officials to hide her correspondence – they continually responded to
legal requests for Clinton emails by claiming none existed, when they knew
perfectly well that a vast trove of those emails was sitting on her private
server.
We didn’t see a single one of her emails until long after
Kerry took over as Secretary of State. Hillary Clinton never voluntarily
disclosed a single one of those emails – she was forced to disclose them by the
State Department, which was in turn forced to ask for them. It is now crystal
clear that Clinton’s successor as Secretary of State knew about her email
server, but kept quiet, even as the Benghazi controversy raged. “Transparency”
for this Administration is a childish game of hide-and-seek, while national
security is an afterthought.
In addition to the famed Clinton email scandal, Defense
Secretary Ashton
Carter caused some embarrassment
for the Administration in December when it was discovered
he was using a personal email account for official business during the first
few months of his tenure. Carter admitted this was a “mistake” and stopped
using the account after White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough found out about it, and told the White House
Counsel’s Office to contact the Defense Department.
On Tuesday, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck
Grassley (R-IA) sent
Carter a letter asking for more details about his use of private
email, citing the Clinton case as a reason for increased concern about the
threat of foreign hackers.
Grassley said it was “troubling” that Carter continued
using private email “even after the risks of private use were made clear when
news of Secretary Clinton’s use broke.”
Foreign intelligence agents will mourn the day the Obama
Administration ends. They’ve never had it so easy before, and hopefully they
never will again.
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Rodham
Clinton was a secretary at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration, a director at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and is the candidate
for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton
presidential campaign.
Note: Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary) supported the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential
campaign.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the Center for American Progress, and the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a co-chair, national finance council for
the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), a
member of the Bretton Woods Committee,
a board member for the International
Crisis Group, was a supporter for the Center
for American Progress, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and the Aspen Institute
(think tank).
Ashton B. Carter
was a member of
the Bretton Woods Committee, and the
defense acquisitions czar for the Barack
Obama administration.
Denis McDonough
was a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress, and is the chief of staff; former deputy national
security adviser for the Barack Obama
administration.
Thomas R.
Pickering is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), a co-chair for the International Crisis Group, a distinguished
fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), was a chairman of
review board that investigated the 2012
attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2013, the undersecretary for
the U.S. Department of State, and a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
Cameron F. Kerry
is a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and John F. Kerry’s brother.
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and married to John F. Kerry.
John
F. Kerry is Cameron F. Kerry’s
brother, married to Teresa Heinz Kerry,
and secretary at the U.S. Department of
State for the Barack Obama administration.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, and the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety.
Michael G. Mullen
is an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety, was a chairman for the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, the vice chief of naval operations for the U.S. Navy, and a vice chairman of
review board that investigated the 2012
attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2013.
Richard J.
Shinnick was a member of review board that investigated the 2012 attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi,
Libya in 2013, and the assistant secretary that overseas building
operations for the U.S. Department of
State.
J.
Christopher Stevens was killed in the 2012
attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and the U.S. ambassador for Libya.
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