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Hillary Clinton's emails on her unsecured personal server contained intelligence from the United States government's most secretive and highly classified operations called special access programs or SAPS. These are described as the crown jewels of the American intelligence community and the United States government. The intelligence community's inspector general, Charles McCullough III, notified congressional oversight committees on January 14 that a comprehensive review by the intelligence agencies found "several dozen emails containing classified information at the confidential secret and top secret / SAP levels," bringing new scrutiny to Clinton's handling of government secrets. If this information is compromised, there would be "very serious national security damage," with no mistake that it was not something you accidentally stumble across and not realize what it is. Access to these programs is highly restricted and on a need-to-know basis only. The State Department spokesman had not seen the letter but added that there are reviews and investigations going on about past email practices and he was not at liberty to discuss the content. The new findings are striking given Clinton's first public statement about her personal server: "There is no classified material. So I'm certainly well aware of the classification requirements." Court documents indicate former CIA director David Petraeus was prosecuted for sharing special access program intelligence with his biographer Paula Broadwell, and both Petraeus and then secretary of state Clinton were required to sign nondisclosure agreements promising to protect SAPs, with the understanding that a failure to do so has significant legal consequences. This is described as a real test for the administration to apply the law in a fair and equal way and treat Hillary Clinton the same way that David Petraeus was treated. A new email first obtained by The Daily Caller shows the State Department knew about Clinton's personal account as early as August 2011, with suggestions to use a government BlackBerry and a .gov account rejected by Clinton's aide, Huma Abedin. The Obama Justice Department allegedly ordered federal lawyers to do and not to do concerning the Hillary Clinton email investigation. During sworn testimony on Capitol Hill, one insider told lawmakers what she was told. In closed-door testimony last summer, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page said the Obama administration's Justice Department advised the FBI not to pursue the gross negligence statute for Hillary Clinton in the mishandling of classified information. Former US attorney and House Republican John Radcliffe led the questioning about the statute known as 18 U.S.C. 793. Page interrupted, stating, "That is correct." Page's testimony appears to conflict with then-FBI director James Comey's recommendation in July 2016 against criminal charges for Clinton. When asked what authorities could assure the American people, she said, "No outside influence of any kind was brought to bear." The Republican-led House Oversight and Judiciary Committee investigation ended in January. With Democrats now in control, the committee's new ranking Republican made the Page transcript public. The transcript reveals an inherent two-tier system, with Hillary Clinton receiving different treatment: "there was actually at first concerned that they were going to charge her and then with Loretta Lynch in charge before she recused herself, made it very clear that that was not going to happen." A tip from a chart drawn up by federal investigators for the Clinton case, known as the mid-year exam, listed possible federal statutes for prosecution. Next to gross negligence was a notation: "DOJ not willing to charge this." Only known cases are military cases when accused lost the information. In response to the Page revelations, the president tweeted that the transcripts would: "Make the Obama justice department look exactly like it was, a broken and corrupt machine." Page testified that "The nation cannot move forward unless people are held accountable," and referenced very senior people, saying, "you know who I'm talking about, I've said it many times. You know? It's the it's the you know, start with Obama and work your way down."