Weiner was obviously working as a Republican operative for the Russians.
Via Daily Mail:
At least five emails determined to be classified were found among 2,800 documents stored on a laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner, whose then-wife Huma Abedin was deputy chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The State Department released hundreds of pages of materials Friday afternoon, including a total of eight pages classified at the ‘confidential level,’ the third most sensitive level the U.S. government uses.
The confidential classification level is applied to information whose unauthorized disclosure ‘reasonably could be expected to cause damage to national security,’
The emails date from 2010, 2011 and 2012 and concern discussions with Middle East leaders including some from Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
Large portions, including entire pages, were redacted before the documents’ release.
Three of them were sent either to or from an address called ‘BBB Backup,’ which one email identifies as a backup of a Blackberry Bold 9700, presumably belonging to Abedin.[…]
Civilians like Weiner, who was once a congressman but resigned in mid-2011, are prohibited from possessing or reading classified documents without a security clearance.
It’s unclear whether Weiner had such a clearance while he was a public official, but he didn’t serve on any House committees that would tend to expose him to sensitive foreign policy matters.
Friday’s revelation will pose new public-image problems for Clinton, who has long faced tough questions over what the FBI has called her ‘careless’ handling of classified material.
The five sensitive documents on Weiner’s laptop were designated ‘classified’ as officials pored through the material at the State Department’s request.
But intelligence agencies warn that such documents are ‘born classified,’ meaning that their distribution is restricted whether or not they bear ‘classified’ stamps or other identifying marks.
Tom Fitton, president of the center-right government transparency group Judicial Watch, said Friday in a statement that he wasn’t surprised Weiner’s computer contained material he was forbidden to see.
‘As we expected, there is classified information on Anthony Weiner’s laptop – thanks to Hillary Clinton’s illicit email games,’ Fitton said.
‘The Justice Department should launch an immediate criminal investigation.’