Upon taking office as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton received training and instructions informing her materials may be classified despite markings indicating otherwise.
She also signed a form agreeing that mishandling or retaining State Department emails without authorization could result in her being criminally convicted.
State Department and FBI officials have uncovered hundreds of emails from Clinton’s unauthorized private server, in violation of the signed agreement.
“A day after assuming office as secretary of state, Clinton signed a Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement that laid out criminal penalties for ‘any unauthorized disclosure’ of classified information,” reports The Washington Free Beacon’s Lachlan Markay.
“Experts have guessed that Clinton signed such an agreement, but a copy of her specific contract, obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute through an open records request and shared with the Washington Free Beacon, reveals for the first time the exact language of the NDA,” the Free Beacon reports.
With the signed agreement now public, it becomes harder for Clinton to argue against criminal charges against her.
According to government security experts, the type of information that receives a TS/SCI designation is sensitive enough that most senior government officials would immediately recognize it as such.
“TS/SCI is very serious and specific information that jumps out at you and screams ‘classified,’” Larry Mrozinski, a former U.S. counterterrorism official, told the New York Post in August. “It’s hard to imagine that in her position she would fail to recognize the obvious.”
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