Something stinks, about Trump operatives in the State Department-
Communications are now being “upclassified” or “reclassified,”
according to several officials involved in the investigation, meaning
that they have been retroactively assessed to contain material so sensitive
that they should have been sent only on State Department classified systems.
(Are these "upclassified" and "reclassified"communications headed
for Trump's Super Secret Private Vault ?)
Trump's State Department officials denied there was any political motivation
- Greg Miller
- Greg Jaffe
- Karoun Demirjian
September 28, 2019
The Trump administration is investigating the email records of dozens
of current and former senior State Department officials who sent
messages to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email,
reviving a politically toxic matter that overshadowed the 2016 election,
current and former officials said.
The probe is being carried out by investigators from the
State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security.
Republican lawmakers, led by Sen. Charles E. Grassley
(R-Iowa), have been pressing Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo to complete the review of classified information
sent to Clinton’s private emails and report back to Congress.
The list of State officials being questioned includes prominent
ambassadors and assistant secretaries of state responsible for
U.S. policy in the Middle East, Europe and Central Asia. But
it also includes dozens of current and former career bureaucrats
who served as conduits for outside officials trying to get important
messages to Clinton.
Several of those who have been questioned said that the State
Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security investigators made
it clear that they were pursuing the matter reluctantly, and under
external pressure.
One official said the investigators were apologetic:
“They realize how absurd it is.”
“It gives them a way to hassle pretty much anyone,” a former
senior U.S. official said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...15497e-e1f2-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html
Communications are now being “upclassified” or “reclassified,”
according to several officials involved in the investigation, meaning
that they have been retroactively assessed to contain material so sensitive
that they should have been sent only on State Department classified systems.
(Are these "upclassified" and "reclassified"communications headed
for Trump's Super Secret Private Vault ?)
Trump's State Department officials denied there was any political motivation
- Greg Miller
- Greg Jaffe
- Karoun Demirjian
September 28, 2019
The Trump administration is investigating the email records of dozens
of current and former senior State Department officials who sent
messages to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email,
reviving a politically toxic matter that overshadowed the 2016 election,
current and former officials said.
The probe is being carried out by investigators from the
State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security.
Republican lawmakers, led by Sen. Charles E. Grassley
(R-Iowa), have been pressing Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo to complete the review of classified information
sent to Clinton’s private emails and report back to Congress.
The list of State officials being questioned includes prominent
ambassadors and assistant secretaries of state responsible for
U.S. policy in the Middle East, Europe and Central Asia. But
it also includes dozens of current and former career bureaucrats
who served as conduits for outside officials trying to get important
messages to Clinton.
Several of those who have been questioned said that the State
Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security investigators made
it clear that they were pursuing the matter reluctantly, and under
external pressure.
One official said the investigators were apologetic:
“They realize how absurd it is.”
“It gives them a way to hassle pretty much anyone,” a former
senior U.S. official said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...15497e-e1f2-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html
