THE BLUNT WORD – AT 11:08 A.M.  The FBI, in what is elegantly called a "document dump," released a great deal of information late yesterday about its investigation of Hillary Clinton.  A document dump late on a Friday, just before a holiday weekend, is meant to minimize attention to what is being released.

Didn't work all that well this time.  The more serious reporters are examining the FBI release.  There are gems there, if Trump can only exploit them.  From Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne at Fox: 

The 11-page FBI summary released Friday of Hillary Clinton's July 2 interview in the criminal email investigation shows bureau agents focused their questions to her on the 22 “Top Secret” emails considered too damaging to national security to make public.

These emails contained some of the U.S. government's most closely held secrets, known as Special Access Programs (SAP), as first reported by Fox News.

Though the summary is heavily redacted, it shows FBI agents asked Clinton about an Afghan national identified as "Salehi," who appeared in her emails, which included a discussion of a New York Times report about his alleged ties to the CIA. Clinton said she did not remember the email, had no reason to believe the discussion involved classified information, and had "no reason to doubt the judgment of the people working for her on the 'front lines.'"

The discussion of a foreign national working with the U.S. government raises security implications -- an executive order signed by President Obama said such unauthorized disclosures are “presumed to cause damage to the national security."

The Salehi email, and the discussion of a possible relationship with the U.S. government, was first reported by Fox News as an example of how human spying intelligence, known as humint, was contained in the Clinton emails. The sharing and discussion of such intelligence puts lives at risk.

COMMENT:  Putting lives at risk seems to be a Hillary Clinton specialty – witness her actions in and comments about Benhazi. 

The odd thing here is that Clinton has a reputation in Washington for taking national security seriously, unlike the president she worked for.  Maybe that reputation is ill-deserved.  It certainly has been damaged.

September 3,  2016