Clinton had classified document on her home server. If you or I had done that we would be in jail, and rightfully so.
Actually she didnt
Kirby said based on the email traffic, it appears that Clinton had already made the decision to call
then Malawi President Joyce Banda and
Annan, so the “confidential” markings should have been removed when Hanley sent the emails. (He made his remarks at about the
12-minute mark.)
Kirby, July 7: I’m not going to get into litigating each and every one of these emails. What I said yesterday is — often time it is practice to mark them confidential in advance of a decision to make a call, and then once a decision is made they’re made sensitive but unclassified and they are provided to the secretary in a way that he or she can then use as they’re on the phone. By all appearances, it appears to us the remnant C, if you will, on this particular email/call sheet was human error because it appears to me from the traffic that the secretary had been asking, had been wanting the call sheet, which I would think would indicate that the secretary was at that time intending to make the call. But I can’t say that for sure, because I wasn’t here and I wasn’t involved in the email traffic itself. So, I’m being careful about how I’m wording this because we’re making assumptions here that I simply don’t know for a fact are true.
Kirby said he had no information about the third email that Comey said also contained the letter “C” marking it as confidential.
At his hearing, Comey was asked repeatedly about the marked emails, with Republicans accusing Clinton of lying, while Democrats defended her actions.
As we have written, Clinton had repeatedly said she did not send or receive any emails marked classified. As recently as
July 3, Clinton said that she “never received nor sent any material that was marked classified.”
For example, Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy
asked Comey if Clinton was telling the truth when she said that she did not send or receive marked classified material. Comey said she wasn’t.
Gowdy, July 7: Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her emails either sent or received. Was that true?
Comey: That’s not true. There were a small number of portion markings on I think three of the documents.
But later in the hearing, Democratic Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman
asked Comey if he knew that the State Department had said that the emails were marked classified in error. Comey replied, “No.”
Likewise, Rep. Matt Cartwright, also a Democrat,
asked Comey if the emails were properly classified, and Comey said they were not. (
Executive Order 13526 spells out how documents should be properly classified, including a header on the document clearly identifying the email as classified as “confidential,” “secret” or “top secret.”)
Cartwright asked if Clinton could have missed the improper markings. Comey said that that was possible.
Cartwright, July 7: So, if Secretary Clinton really were an expert at what’s classified and what’s not classified and we’re following the manual, the absence of a header would tell her immediately that those three documents were not classified. Am I correct in that?
Comey: That would be a reasonable inference.
There are still unanswered questions. We don’t know anything about the third email that Comey said was improperly marked classified, for example. We’ll update this item if more information becomes available.
So classified that should have just been marked confidential, and questions about your if an email should have been marked classified at all. And all behind phone calls with the President of Malawi?
Yeah, I can see how that is exactly the same thing as stealing. 700 documents clearly marked top secret, and super top secret involving nuclear secrets, and the name of spies who’s life would be put in danger hidden in the basement.