During the Biden administration, we heard a lot about the ‘proper’ handling of classified material. Mar-a-Lago was raided, President Biden’s garage was not. President Trump was charged; the case against President Biden was not charged because he was an old man with a faulty memory. Justice was not blind. However, both incidents brought up the issue of responsibility. In every business there is one person (or group of people) who represent the final authority. That person or group is held responsible for policies withing the business. In America, that person is the President; rightly or wrongly, he is held responsible for inflation, the stock market, energy prices, and a lot of other things he has no control over. But there are some things he does have control over.
On Wednesday, Just the News reported the following:
Briefing materials for President Barack Obama, subjects and times for White House Situation Room meetings and discussions about sensitive conversations with foreign leaders and even fallout from leaked National Security Agency intercepts were forwarded to Joe Biden’s private pseudonymous email accounts when he was vice president, according to a new tranche of documents turned over to Just the News by the National Archives.
Security experts and lawmakers, who reviewed the records, said they were disturbed by the nonchalant transmission of sensitive government information to Biden’s insecure private email accounts and believed it put national security at risk.
“The new set of emails from Joe Biden’s time as Vice President are very troubling and are more evidence that Biden believed he did not have to abide by classification and document handling regulations,” former CIA analyst and former Trump National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz told Just the News.
Several hundred pages of emails from 2011 to 2015 were released to Just the News and its public interest law firm partner the Southeastern Legal Foundation as part on an ongoing Freedom of Information Act litigation.
The article notes:
Applicable federal regulations aren’t limited to classified material, and instead strictly limit federal employees’ use of commercial email to conduct government business.
As for the contents, each federal agency has its own definition of “sensitive.” The U.S. Air Force, for example calls it “controlled unclassified information” in a memo about email, while the U.S. Department of Labor is even more restrictive, directing federal employees to “NOT use your personal email or social media accounts for official matters. This raises record-keeping issues and potentially puts confidential information at risk.”
Why were both the Secretary of State (Hillary Clinton) and the Vice-President using fake names and private emails to do government business? That is the question I would like answered.