Fox Hosts Echo Dubious NY Post Claim That Clinton Aides Circumvented Email Classification System

Lisa Kennedy: “We See That She Directed Her Operatives ... To Cut And Paste That Classified Information”

From the January 25 edition of Fox News' Outnumbered:

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LISA KENNEDY: The only way her argument holds any water is if Republicans literally sucked her brain out of her nose with a straw and replaced it with a new one, because she knew exactly what was going on here. And from some of these emails, we see that she directed her operatives, people in her closest circle, to cut and paste that classified information to send it on a completely secured system. It is a closed system with which you cannot transmit information to an open system which is what she had. She had an open system, and some of those emails on that open server showed stuff like Chris Stevens' whereabouts and his security detail. And so, you know, you have to wonder, as many intelligence experts have said, that there's such a great chance that she was hacked by Russia and China and god knows who else, what other kind of secured information was on those deleted emails? But this stuff is already so damning, and the avalanche is only getting worse.

SANDRA SMITH: And Judge Napolitano, you commented on that last week, pointing out that there could have been the discussion of moles and secret government operations. So much could have been put at risk there, Harris, and it's scary to think about that. But in the meantime, her strategy continues to be, blame Republicans. This is just them just staying on this story, won't let it go.

HARRIS FAULKNER: Well, this is exactly the part that the FBI said that they would be looking at though. What were the clearances like for those underlings, if you will, to make the decisions about what was going to be put on the server and what was going to be email-able and so on and so forth? And all it takes is one testimony from one of those people to kind of trace back, and that's problematic, because if they didn't have the right kind of clearance, and since when did a secretary or an assistant really have the kind of SAP -- it's a Special Access Program -- that's the highest level of top secret? These people were handling that material? Is that what we're led to believe? 

DAVID ASMAN: And she -- by the way, and she's not only blaming the Republicans. She's blaming the Inspector General, who was appointed by President Obama. 

FAULKNER: Of collusion. 

ASMAN: Of collusion. But the interesting thing for me with this story is the FBI is talking. The FBI is talking to reporters -- the ones that they trust anyway -- getting the information out. I think if they develop enough information and Comey, the director of the FBI is very serious, he's a hard-nosed guy, if they develop enough information to warrant an indictment and if they don't get the indictment from the Justice Department, they're going to continue to talk. We're going to know everything that they found out, and chances are it's a lot.

KENNEDY: And do they have access to those deleted emails, that's what I want to know? No one seems to have an answer to that. I've asked a bunch of people in the building with some credible FBI sources, and no one is talking about it. But I think those hold such a glimmering key.

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Previously:

NY Post Pushes Dubious Claim That Clinton Aides Improperly Circumvented Email Classification System

Bob Woodward Hypes Clinton Email Falsehood On Fox News Sunday

State Department Disproves Hugh Hewitt's Claim That Hillary Clinton Broke A Law