State Department now looking into whether Clinton emails were classified when they were sent

[applegrove]

AP

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8f86fc67ca2d42888cdd49d22b884682/state-department-now-looking-whether-clinton-emails-were

"SNIP............


WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department now looking into whether Clinton emails were classified when they were sent.


..............SNIP"

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. Yep. It was on the nightly news.

Ouch.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. THis is an oldie but a goodie

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-emails-idUSKCN0QQ0BW20150821

And I read some of those emails at the same time, and we had the same reaction in this house. Some of this material was born classified... nature of the beast.

I understand this is a highly technical story... and why people are having issues understanding it. You pretty much have to have a clue as to how this is done... I did due to my masters degree and reading material that was declassified 25 years after it was created... and some of the material I downloaded from State struck me in the same vein.

Here is the State reading room... brew coffee

https://foia.state.gov/search/results.aspx

[applegrove]

3. Someone on CNN said that the now classified emails were in correspondence email chains and

the now classified ones Hillary did not initiate. Pretty hard to blame her if she never made the decision to send or receive it. I guess by having a private server she made a decision to receive the email chains in general but not specifically. And the information was not classified at the time, I think. She's already apologized for having a private server.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Well one that screamed at me had content from oh the Prime Minister of England

regarding Benghazi.

It could be from the PM regarding Dinner in DC when he comes visit, and a night at the theater... who it came from, those are automatically born classified.

It was deemed classified after me, Reuters, and anybody worth media credentials got them. We read it a few times, we really went... wth? That is where the questions started from media if you pay attention to the time line.

At this point I deem this a highly technical story that is beyond most partisans, and that goes for both sides.

And it was released on a classic news dump Friday, hoping it will do little damage on Monday... sorry, but the tin foil is also screaming.