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August 2015 Intelligence News

• Fact Checker: Clinton's claims about receiving or sending 'classified material' on her private e-mail system, by Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, August 27. "At The Fact Checker, we judge statements through the perspective of an ordinary citizen. The classification rules are complex but, legal technicalities aside, the question is whether classified information was exchanged over her private e-mail system. According to the State Department redactions of the released e-mails, the answer is yes."
• Bush War In Iraq 2003 Legal Memo Released: President Not Required To Disclose WMD Information To Congress by Clark Mindock, International Business Times, August 26. "A recently released Justice Department opinion that is more than a decade old outlines the legal argument for situations where the president is exempt from explicit statutory requirements to keep Congress 'fully and currently informed' about foreign weapons of mass destruction."
• State Department officials routinely sent secrets over email by Ken Dilanian, Associated Press, August 26. "The transmission of now-classified information across Hillary Rodham Clinton's private email is consistent with a State Department culture in which diplomats routinely sent secret material on unsecured email during the past two administrations, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press."
• Should Clinton Emails Have Been Classified From the Start? by Patrick Caldwell, Mother Jones, August 21. "Reuters reported that many of her State Department emails should have been deemed automatically classified from the start. But the reality of the rules, like so many of the details in the growing email scandal, isn't entirely clear cut."
• Could Hillary Clinton Face Criminal Charges Over Emailgate? by Margaret Hartmann, New York Magazine, August 21. "Since the news that she used a private email server as secretary of state broke in March, Hillary Clinton has repeatedly insisted that everything she did was 'legally permitted'."
• Fellow diplomats question Clinton's email defense by Bryan Bender, Politico, August 20. "While sympathetic to the messy nature of the classification system, fellow diplomats and specialists say Clinton could have bore responsibility to flag sensitive material."
• The Other 'Top Secret' Problem Hurting Hillary Clinton by Ben Geman, National Journal, August 19. "Long before Clinton made the decision to operate a private email server during her tenure at the top of the State Department, intelligence agencies had been guilty of "overclassification": excessive secrecy that saturates decisions about what's classified and tips the balance toward keeping way too many documents off-limits."
• Why Stevie Wonder is 'welcome to apply' to the CIA by Tara McKelvey, BBC News, August 11. "The CIA is recruiting people with disabilities in order to build a diverse agency -- and the agency's officials are being unusually open about these efforts."
• The Top Secret Pentagon Project That Had Its Own Super Bowl Commercial by Lauren Thomas, Bloomberg, August 11. "The U.S. Air Force's newest bomber is poised to emerge from the shadows of the Pentagon's so-called black budget."
• Hillary Clinton Emails Take Long Path to Controversy by Scott Shane and Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, August 8. "The email account and its confusing reverberations have become a significant early chapter in the 2016 presidential race and a new stroke in the portrait of the Democrats' leading candidate."
• White House criticized for not filling watchdog post at CIA by Michael Isikoff, Yahoo News, August 5. "More than six months after the CIA inspector general resigned, President Obama has yet to nominate a replacement, prompting mounting concerns on Capitol Hill that the delay may be affecting sensitive internal investigations."