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by hga 3637 days ago
And the very worst stuff we've learned about is some of Sid Blumenthal's emails, who shouldn't even have access to this stuff, forwarding highest level NSA stuff, the sort that can get people killed in real time, the stuff that's protected at as or higher a level than, say, nuclear weapons secrets (I have friends who've worked for both the NSA and LLNL).

There is no possible way she has the authority on her own, or the State Department by itself, to allow her kitchen cabinet blow the covers of these people and methods, she in fact had a duty to report such breaches.