Valerie Plame and Scooter Libby Wrote:
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> Hillary Clinton used her private email account to
> pass along the identity of one of the CIA’s top
> Libyan intelligence sources, raising new questions
> about her handling of classified information,
> according to excerpts from previously undisclosed
> emails released Thursday by Rep. Trey Gowdy, the
> Republican chairman of the House Select Committee
> on Benghazi.
>
> On March 18, 2011, Sidney Blumenthal —
> Clinton’s longtime friend and political adviser
> — sent the then secretary of state an email to
> her private account that contained apparently
> highly sensitive information he had received from
> Tyler Drumheller, a former top CIA official with
> whom Blumenthal at the time had a business
> relationship.
>
> “Tyler spoke to a colleague currently at CIA,
> who told him the agency had been dependent for
> intelligence from [redacted due to sources and
> methods],” the email states, according to
> Gowdy’s letter.
>
> The redacted information was “the name of a
> human source,” Gowdy wrote to his Democratic
> counterpart, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, and
> was therefore “some of the most protected
> information in our intelligence community.”
>
> “Armed with that information, Secretary Clinton
> forwarded the email to a colleague — debunking
> her claim that she never sent any classified
> information from her private email address,”
> wrote Gowdy in a letter to Cummings.
>
> Clinton has repeatedly said she never sent or
> received classified information on her private
> email server “that was marked classified at the
> time that it was sent or received.” But the FBI,
> at the request of the inspectors general for the
> intelligence community and the State Department,
> is investigating the handling of classified
> information on the private server.
>
> And while there is nothing that indicates that the
> email from Blumenthal (who was not a government
> employee) was marked classified at the time
> Clinton received it, the sensitive nature of its
> contents should have been a red flag and never
> should have been passed along, according to a
> former veteran CIA officer.
>
> “She is exposing the name of a guy who has a
> clandestine relationship with the CIA on her
> private, unprotected server,” said John Maguire,
> who served for years as one of the CIA’s top
> Mideast officers.
>
> In addition, he noted, the email should trigger a
> “crimes report” by the CIA to the Justice
> Department seeking an investigation into who
> within the agency revealed the information to
> Drumheller.
>
> “Unless Tyler was blowing smoke, it’s an
> unauthorized disclosure of information,” said
> John Rizzo, a former CIA general counsel. “And
> it’s the most sensitive kind of classified
> information — the identity of a human source.
> She should have told Blumenthal, ‘delete this
> — and don’t send me that again.’ And then
> she should have reported it to State Department
> security.”