"Opponents of leading Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton believe they have found (another) smoking gun in the most recent batch of the former Secretary of State’s emails – this one proving that Clinton directed a member of her staff to have sensitive documents sent over a non-secure system. Interestingly, while most of the focus of investigations into Clinton’s handling of classified material has been her use of a personal email system while running the State Department, the most recent eruption appears to be over the use of a non-secure fax machine.
In emails released late yesterday, Clinton exchanges messages with aide Jake Sullivan in June 2011. The topic is unclear because of redactions, but Clinton is plainly anxious to get her hands on a set of talking points being developed for her.
“You’ll get tps this eve. They’re coming together,” Sullivan wrote at 5:51 p.m. on June 16.
At 7:52 the next morning, Clinton replied, “I didn’t get the TPs yet.”
Sullivan informs his boss that the Department has had trouble sending the talking points through its system for secure fax messaging.
“If they can’t, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure,” Clinton replied.
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However, it’s not clear that the request was quite the smoking gun Clinton’s critics think it was. In her email, the former secretary directed staff to turn the talking points into “non-paper” before sending it through non-secure channels. In the State Department, the term “non-paper” appears to have a pretty specific meaning.
As about 30 seconds on Google will reveal, the Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual defines non-paper as, “A written summary of a demarche or other verbal presentation to a foreign government. The non-paper should be drafted in the third person, and must not be directly attributable to the U.S. Government. It is prepared on plain paper (no letterhead or watermark). The heading or title, if any, is simply a statement of the issue or subject. (For example: ‘Genetically-Modified Organisms.’)”
If what Clinton was doing in that email was specifying that the talking points were to be turned into an anodyne statement of facts that the department felt comfortable sharing with a foreign government – and that seems pretty likely given the context – it’s probably a stretch to suggest that the FBI will be opening a criminal inquiry about it anytime soon."
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/01/08/Latest-Clinton-Email-Smoking-Gun-May-Be-All-Smoke
