Hillary Agreement Acknowledging Criminal Penalties For Mishandling Intel Goes Public

An agreement signed by Hillary Clinton acknowledging criminal penalties for mishandling classified information has now gone public

A day after being sworn in as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton signed a nondisclosure agreement known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement that made clear the criminal charges for any unauthorized disclosure of sensitive government information.

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

Experts have guessed that Clinton signed such an agreement, but a copy of her specific contract, obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute through an open records request and shared with theWashington Free Beacon, reveals for the first time the exact language of the NDA.

“I have been advised that the unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized retention, or negligent handling of SCI by me could cause irreparable injury to the United States or be used to advantage by a foreign nation,” the agreement states.

Clinton received at least two emails while secretary of state on her personal email server since marked “TS/SCI”—top secret/sensitive compartmented information—according to the U.S. intelligence community’s inspector general.

The State Department said in September that Clinton’s private email system, set up at her Chappaqua, N.Y., home, was not authorized to handle SCI.

The Democratic presidential frontrunner defended her unauthorized possession of SCI and her sending of emails containing classified information by claiming that the information was not marked as classified when it was sent or received.

The language of her NDA suggests it was Clinton’s responsibility to ascertain whether information shared through her private email server was, in fact, classified.

“I understand that it is my responsibility to consult with appropriate management authorities in the Department … in order to ensure that I know whether information or material within my knowledge or control that I have reason to believe might be SCI,” the agreement says.

Clinton also signed other NDA’s along with her aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills promising not to disclose sensitive information unless authorized. Such agreements are the subject of an ongoing FBI investigation.

Though Hillary would like to make the issue of her private email server a matter of politics as usual, the more evidence continues to pile up showing her in violation of her duties as Secretary of State, the more this scandal smacks not of partisan politics but of gross negligence on the part of Hillary and her staff.