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Yeah I'm sure the Special Access Programs on there were not harmful at all. https://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/hillary-clinton-email-server-top-secret-2179

• YeahNO 4y ago
  You're right, probably not harmful at all: "The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said some or all of the emails deemed to implicate “special access programs” related to U.S. drone strikes. Those who sent the emails were not involved in directing or approving the strikes, but responded to the fallout from them, the official said. The information in the emails “was not obtained through a classified product, but is considered ‘per se’ classified” because it pertains to drones, the official added. The U.S. treats drone operations conducted by the CIA as classified, even though in a 2012 internet chat Presidential Barack Obama acknowledged U.S.-directed drone strikes in Pakistan."
• rocket_surgeron 4y ago
  If someone created a PDF of that article and attached it to an email and sent it to a US Government information system, by classification guide standards it is now a classified email. In fact, this comment would be considered classified, as would yours. The article you linked to seems to indicate that the emails were considered classified based on the assertions I just made. The sentence "The United States of America has conducted drone strikes in Pakistan" was, and likely still is, top secret information protected by a special access program and email containing any sentence conveying that information in any form that is not properly marked and handled is a violation of security procedures. It is impossible to know the context of what they are investigating without seeing the emails, and neither you nor I have seen them.