The Obama administration had a heck of a time filling its Special Advisor for Green Jobs position after Van Jones left, but he’s still a major media presence on CNN, where he provides political commentary. He also wields a mean Twitter account; watch as he eviscerates a critic of Hillary Clinton and her email scandal with just one tweet.
WATCH: @VanJones68 performs a righteous smackdown on Trump advocate over candidate’s racism https://t.co/k8yelgAxvu
— Van Jones (@VanJones68) June 11, 2016
https://twitter.com/thepaultoma/status/741639774620897280
Why? Did something happen? https://t.co/QVchBoElFj
— Van Jones (@VanJones68) June 11, 2016
Ouch! That troll was quick fried to a crackly crunch. Retweets may not be endorsements, but Jones seemed to agree that was a pretty smooth takedown by passing along this bit of praise.
https://twitter.com/wonkysocialist/status/741717473238515713
Actually, something did happen with Clinton’s email server, which might or might not have been wiped with a cloth or something. Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne of Fox News are questioning Clinton’s now reflexive claim that she never, ever, ever sent anything that was marked classified through her unsecured, homebrew server.
Despite Clinton claims, 2012 email had classified marking https://t.co/RMC16fMN48 pic.twitter.com/E0t6H63Mux
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 11, 2016
At least 1 Clinton email did have a classification marking, per @foxnews https://t.co/X9xgzDCcBL
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) June 11, 2016
The FBI only needs 7 more decades to decide if she's a huge liar or not. Stay tuned everyone.
— Ted Bracewell (@Tedakin) June 11, 2016
Yet nothing will happen to her. Certainly not after Obama's endorsement.
— Karin Lewis (@karlew63) June 11, 2016
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I had a top secret clearance for 24 years; would still be in federal prison for what Clinton is alleged to have done. @hughhewitt
— Chuck DeVore (@ChuckDeVore) June 11, 2016
Herridge and Browne report that “a 2012 email released by the State Department appears to challenge that claim because it carries a classified code known as a “portion marking” — and that marking was on the email when it was sent directly to Clinton’s account.”
U can't have portion markings without header markings. This proves the class header marks was deliberately cutoff. Highly illegal!
— Jason Billings (@SingleDallasGuy) June 11, 2016
Breaking: Hillary Clinton Sent Information Marked Classified https://t.co/RMi6YdShyr pic.twitter.com/UxkOLOgHlw
— OBSERVER (@observer) June 11, 2016
The part of the email that isn’t redacted deals with a condolence call placed to Malawi’s president, Joyce Banda. Before you pull a President Obama and make the excuse that Fox News is biased and, besides, “there’s classified and then there’s classified … basically stuff that you could get in open source,” Observer’s Austin Bay would like to stop you right there:
Let’s stipulate that the Secretary of State intends to extend her condolences—minor stuff, this isn’t nuclear war, she isn’t resetting relations with Vladimir Putin.
But drop your gaze down the page: the rest of the email is redacted. Blank. Blanked out.
The Fox News article discusses the redactions. Quote: “Everything after that was fully redacted before it was publicly released by the State Department — a sign that the information was classified at the time and dealt with sensitive government deliberations.”
That’s a sign, all right. It’s a signal flare.
Clinton will brush this off if it even becomes necessary (and let’s face it — Saturday’s not a big day for media bombshells). On second thought, she might laugh it off depending on the day of the week.
Still, Fox News reports that “a U.S. government source said there are other Clinton emails with classified markings, or marked classified, beyond the April 2012 document.”
https://twitter.com/EdwinRo47796972/status/741480310471200768
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with an additional tweet.
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