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> From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classi

> From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent. (emphasis mine) This seems like a clear contradiction of a common Clinton talking point, that none of the e-mails were classified at the time they were sent. Director Comey even goes so far as to use the same language the Clintons have been employing. Will we see a walk-back of that line in light of this?

noobermin 10y ago
When has Clinton ever flipped on an issue? cough
- DKnoll3 10y ago
  Glad you asked! http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/15/politics/45-times-secretary-clinton-pushed-the-trade-bill-she-now-opposes/ http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/15/politics/45-times-secretary-cl... From one of her biggest supporters, no less!
ZoF 10y ago
No, there will just be: >I was cleared of any wrong-doing by the FBI >At this point does it even matter
frankydp 10y ago
The more interesting fact would be to know the Original Classification Authority for each of those emails. As the SoS is one of a very short list of authorities. I would find if difficult to believe that some of those if not most were actually originated at State. Also, the argument that the action was not knowing or purposeful, seems very unlikely give the fact that the vast majority of executive level State Department correspondence would be classified by authority.
nanny 10y ago
>This seems like a clear contradiction of a common Clinton talking point Straight from her website: >Clinton only used her account for unclassified email. No information in Clinton's emails was marked classified at the time she sent or received them. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/07/13/email-facts/ https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/07/1...
- gfodor 10y ago
  Still there. I guess we are through the looking glass where a documented lie (on your own website) about how you handled classified information doesn't disqualify you from running for president.
  - mcphage 10y ago
    > I guess we are through the looking glass where a documented lie (on your own website) about how you handled classified information doesn't disqualify you from running for president. I mean, if she were running against someone who didn't lie constantly, maybe it would? But she's not, so here we are.
- mordocai 10y ago
  > marked classified That'll be their defense. "This wasn't marked as classified, so I didn't know!"
  - nanny 10y ago
    Nice try, but the wording says no information was marked classified, not no emails. In addition: >There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for [a classified] conversation.
tassl 10y ago
And, what we know, is that she removed 30,000 "personal emails", from which we know (at least) some are not so personal [1]. I wonder how the investigation would have changed if the FBI would had access to all emails. [1] http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/06/new_clinton_emails_include_dozens_of_documents_she_failed_to_turn_over_to_state_department.html http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/06/new_clinton_emai... (edit: added link)

noobermin 10y ago

When has Clinton ever flipped on an issue? cough

DKnoll3 10y ago
Glad you asked! http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/15/politics/45-times-secretary-clinton-pushed-the-trade-bill-she-now-opposes/ http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/15/politics/45-times-secretary-cl... From one of her biggest supporters, no less!

ZoF 10y ago

No, there will just be: >I was cleared of any wrong-doing by the FBI >At this point does it even matter

frankydp 10y ago

The more interesting fact would be to know the Original Classification Authority for each of those emails. As the SoS is one of a very short list of authorities. I would find if difficult to believe that some of those if not most were actually originated at State. Also, the argument that the action was not knowing or purposeful, seems very unlikely give the fact that the vast majority of executive level State Department correspondence would be classified by authority.

nanny 10y ago

>This seems like a clear contradiction of a common Clinton talking point Straight from her website: >Clinton only used her account for unclassified email. No information in Clinton's emails was marked classified at the time she sent or received them. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/07/13/email-facts/ https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/07/1...

gfodor 10y ago
Still there. I guess we are through the looking glass where a documented lie (on your own website) about how you handled classified information doesn't disqualify you from running for president.
- mcphage 10y ago
  > I guess we are through the looking glass where a documented lie (on your own website) about how you handled classified information doesn't disqualify you from running for president. I mean, if she were running against someone who didn't lie constantly, maybe it would? But she's not, so here we are.
mordocai 10y ago
> marked classified That'll be their defense. "This wasn't marked as classified, so I didn't know!"
- nanny 10y ago
  Nice try, but the wording says no information was marked classified, not no emails. In addition: >There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for [a classified] conversation.

tassl 10y ago

And, what we know, is that she removed 30,000 "personal emails", from which we know (at least) some are not so personal [1]. I wonder how the investigation would have changed if the FBI would had access to all emails. [1] http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/06/new_clinton_emails_include_dozens_of_documents_she_failed_to_turn_over_to_state_department.html http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/06/new_clinton_emai... (edit: added link)