Flashback: Hillary Clinton's 'inner circle' suspected of stripping docs of classification markings

As Twitchy reported earlier today, the latest batch of State Department emails due for release Thursday but dumped in the wee hours of the night included one clearly showing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (“H”) instructing a staffer to strip the identifying header from a document and send it “nonsecure.” This, of course, is something Clinton’s camp denies ever happened.

Clinton camp tells @CBSNews: "It is false that Hillary Clinton asked for classified material to be sent over a nonsecure system."

— Nancy Cordes (@nancycordes) January 8, 2016

1. I'm just a little granny who can't handle two cell phones at once!

2.Turn into nonpaper w/no identifying heading and send nonsecure

— John Hayward (@Doc_0) January 8, 2016

Maybe this particular document referred to in the email wasn’t classified. No harm, no foul.

Could memo Hillary ordered to be 'sent nonsecure' have been unclassified? Wouldn't need secure fax & contents wouldn't have been redacted.

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) January 8, 2016

@guypbenson No reason to order "strip out the headers" of unclassified material in order to work around secure-transmission channels.

— Greg Flugaur (@flugempire) January 8, 2016

exactly https://t.co/cUTRQwZngR

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) January 8, 2016

Guy Benson, political editor of Townhall, offered a flashback to a report last August alleging that just that sort of mishandling of classified material was happening regularly.

Flashback: State Dept official alleges Hillary's "inner circle" may have stripped classification markings, a crime:https://t.co/jYdsVwHdsj

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) January 8, 2016

The latest revelations about top secret information traversing Hillary Clinton’s private email server have triggered accusations that someone in her “inner circle” likely stripped the classification markings, illegally.

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… a State Department official told Fox News that the intelligence community inspector general, who raised the most recent concerns about Clinton’s emails, made clear that at least one of those messages contained information that only could have come from the intelligence community.

“If so, they would have had to come in with all the appropriate classification markings,” the official said.

The official questioned whether someone, then, tampered with that message. “[S]omewhere between the point they came into the building and the time they reached HRC’s server, someone would have had to strip the classification markings from that information before it was transmitted to HRC’s personal email.”

The official said doing so would “constitute a felony, in and of itself. I can’t imagine that a rank-and-file career DOS employee would have done this, so it was most likely done by someone in her inner circle.”

@guypbenson @FoxNews now there's a surprise, an alleged crime involving Clinton and her minions.

— Bernie Risbon (@BernieRisbon) January 8, 2016

@guypbenson @FoxNews This has been drawn out so long. Justice is covering her ass. All of her email should be classified at transmission.

— Deplorable Turkey (@Paleoturkey) January 8, 2016

https://twitter.com/AvidTrober/status/685513455168696320

@guypbenson it will be interesting to see how Loretta Lynch handles a referral from the FBI.

— Stephen Lee (@StephenLeeUSA) January 8, 2016

@guypbenson it will be vigorously prosecuted just like the IRS malfeasance. Haha! I made myself laugh.

— By the numbers ??? (@TheRealFixNow) January 8, 2016

@guypbenson @FoxNews Big deal. They'll retire them on a full pension until they can be named president of some dumbass obscure college.

— Karystus ?? (@karystus) January 9, 2016