raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 12:41 pm
RVInit, iirc, some of the classified info found in Hillary's emails was actually classified AFTER it had been emailed to her, was that the case? Or was it just the one email you mention?
I think one was classified at the time, but the person who typed it in did not know it because she was typing from a printed page that had no classification markings. I think there were six in total that the FBI related to "classified". But they are counting things that were "about" classified subject matter. Not that the emails themselves contained actual classified material.
Example: There was a death of a president of some country (can't remember which). That country notified the USA that their leader had passed away and they wished to keep that secret. So the fact that the man was dead was classified for two days until that country got their ducks in order and announced the death. For those two days, Clinton was on "standby" as SOS is the person who officially transmits condolences to other countries. She was traveling at the time, so she asked her staff to let her know when she could send condolences (once it was no longer classified). So, her staff sent her an email that had:
Subject: Condolences
Body: Send (date inserted here)
That was it. The entire email. The FBI said it was "about a classified subject matter" and they classified that as one of the "problem" emails. To which I actually roll my eyes. Anyone intercepting that message would either have no idea what it was about, or they would know what it was about because they already knew what it was about. But I fail to see how that would have risked revealing anything to anyone who didn't already know what it was about.
I think the other four were things in between the two examples, including things no longer classified by the time her address was added to the email thread. It seems that some of the smaller government facilities didn't have budget to update computer systems and that is why some things end up getting printed and able to be taken out of a SCIF because they are not recognized as being classified. But not a single instance of anything that was deemed to be questionable originated from Clinton, her staff, or anyone else employed anywhere in the State Department. Reading the FBI report and then listening to Comey's comments really got under my skin. He really mischaracterized what his own department investigation found.