Transmitting highly classified material on a unsecured/unclassified e-mail system. Someone is going to be in serious legal trouble when this investigation is over.


Hillary Clinton Emails Held Info Beyond Top Secret: IG

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hillary-clinton-emails-contained-info-above-top-secret-ig-n499886

Emails from Hillary Clinton's home server contained information classified at levels higher than previously known, including a level meant to protect some of the most sensitive U.S. intelligence, according to a document obtained by NBC News.

Charles McCulllough, the intelligence community's inspector general, said in a letter to the chairmen of the Senate intelligence and foreign affairs committees that he has received sworn declarations from an intelligence agency he declined to name.The declarations cover "several dozen emails containing classified information determined by the IC element to be at the CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET and TOP SECRET/SAP information."

An intelligence official familiar with the matter told NBC News that the special access program in question was so sensitive that McCullough and some of his aides had to receive clearance to be read in on it before viewing the sworn declaration about the Clinton emails.

Clinton's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.While she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, Clinton conducted government business over private email. The arrangement was particularly unusual because the email system relied not on Yahoo or Google but her own server, which she kept in her home in Westchester County, N.Y.


Definitions:
Top Secret: The highest security clearance available, this information has the potential for unauthorized disclosure to cause grave damage to the national security.

Secret: Any information where unauthorized disclosure could cause serious damage to the national security. Many private corporation contractors who work on military or government contracts need to have Secret clearance in order to perform their work, sometimes simply because they will be working at a facility where they could potentially see or hear information classified as “Secret.”

SCI – Sensitive Compartmented Information
SAP – Special Access Programs
This means that even if one holds Top Secret clearance, they would not have access to SCI or SAP information.

This classification (SCI-SAP) is often very important for military research projects where scientists and technicians have a critical need to know specific aspects or components of a technology design, but really have no need to know the scope of the entire project. The fewer people who know what the entire purpose of the project is, the less likely there will be leaks to foreign intelligence agents
http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2009/11/above-top-secret/