More State Department Docs Show Hillary Should Have Been Aware of Classification Rules

Published September 8, 2016 12:45pm ET



Last Friday’s document release by the FBI revealed a stark contradiction between then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s signed Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement and her July statements to FBI agents, as THE WEEKLY STANDARD reported. Clinton told the FBI that she could not recall “any briefing or training by State related to the retention of federal records or handling of classified information”, while the non-disclosure form stated that “I hereby acknowledge that I have received a security indoctrination concerning the nature and protection of classified information.”

So while Clinton says she recalls no such briefing or training, a State Department publication from 2010, the Diplomatic Security 2009 Year in Review, explicitly states that Secretary Clinton indeed received the training in “the proper handling of sensitive and classified information”. The relevant section from the publication is shown here:

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