State Dept confirms FBI got it wrong, none of Hillary Clinton’s emails were classified at the time

[Her Sister]

Hillary Clinton insisted all along that none of the emails she sent or received on her private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State was marked classified at the time. That was contradicted by the Director of the FBI yesterday when he claimed that a “very small number” of her emails were in fact classified at the time. The New York Times then determined that that number was just two. And now the State Department has confirmed that the two emails in question weren’t actually classified at the time, and had merely been marked incorrectly during the course of the investigation.

In yet another development which helps make clear that Clinton did nothing demonstrably wrong with her email, the two emails sent to her by her aides in 2012 were harmless in nature. Both were merely used to schedule phone calls with foreign leaders, and on their face, clearly could not have possibly been classified at the time. Sure enough, a spokesman for the State Department has confirmed that they were not classified.

This comes just hours after CBS News reported that Hillary Clinton had asked the NSA for a secure smartphone for her email immediately upon taking office as Secretary of State, and had been turned down. One by one, the details coming out are making clear that despite having spent so many months running an investigation and despite having been given full cooperation by Clinton and her team, the conclusions made by the FBI Director yesterday were far removed from the actual facts involved.

With Hillary Clinton now having been fully cleared of any potential charges, this may be a moot point in terms of the outcome; she’s off the hook and she remains the clear frontrunner in the 2016 presidential race. But these new details surfacing today make clear that the FBI Director didn’t come close to getting his facts right when he personally criticized her email usage yesterday. Here’s more on the story.

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/state-dept-now-says-fbi-got-it-wrong/25101/

[Her Sister]

1. DEVELOPING: New State Dept. Revelation of Classified Marking Error Supports Hillary on Emails

SNIPPET:

Comey had said in his statement: “Only a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information.” The New York Times nailed down that “very small number” to two:

While [Comey] did not identify any, he was evidently referring to two emails that one of Mrs. Clinton’s close aides, Monica R. Hanley, sent to prepare her for telephone calls with foreign leaders, according to a State Department official familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss classified information. One email, dated Aug. 2, 2012, noted that Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of the United Nations, was stepping down as special envoy trying to mediate the war in Syria. A second one, sent in April 2012, discussed Mrs. Clinton’s call to the newly inaugurated president of Malawi.
So it appears that the only two emails that were “marked” classified (or to be more precise “bore markings indicating the presence of classified information”) in Hillary’s tens of thousands of emails were erroneously marked as such.

Ultimately, this entire email story comes down to the conclusion, from the New York Times, that Comey “did not claim that Mrs. Clinton’s behavior had compromised any program or operation.”

The Times quotes Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, as saying, “There was no assertion of damage to national security because of this episode.”

No assertion of damage and no evidence of damage.

Most importantly, no bad intent on Hillary’s part. None whatsoever. Simply a mistake she regrets making. And a lot of bluster over something that could have happened – but didn’t.

UPDATE: It’s officially over.

http://bluenationreview.com/revelation-of-classified-marking-error-supports-hillary-on-emails/

[LAS14]

10. How can we get more MSM coverage of this??? nt

[yallerdawg]

2. C-SPAN3 carrying Comey at 10 (9 CT) today.

They'll stream at: http://www.c-span.org/

[Her Sister]

5. In 15 mins! Ugh! Argh! Ugh! Argh!

Can you let me know what happens, if you don't mind! Afraid he's going to do more of the same!

[Cha]

3. Jeeze.. way to advertize your incompetence, FBI!

And, then we have glenn greenwald on the tv whining about Hillary divulging "classified material".. you cannot make this shite up!

Thank you for all this, Her Sister~

[Her Sister]

4. Greenwald backs hacker that divulges Classified material!?

This is hypocritical of Greenwald to act like he care about the security of Classified material!

[Cha]

6. Yeah, and he doesn't care.. that's his calibre.

[BlueCaliDem]

7. Exactly! Greenwald should STFU. He has ZERO credibility to talk about this. Then again, when does a

Republican or a Republican-leaning sycophant have any credibility on anything?

[UtahLib]

8. I'm sure this information will

be buried beneath all the BS coming from the Hillary haters.

[ladym55]

9. Not to worry!!

The "great minds" of the Republican House are all set to continue investigating ... cuz that would be good use of our tax dollars and this is something that absolutely needs to happen.

[LAS14]

11. On the one hand, this hearing...

... does give the Democrats an opportunity to push back on Comey (already to good effect). On the other hand, I think we should have a law prohibiting congressional investigations unless a bipartisan vote agrees to them.

[Thinkingabout]

12. The Republicans continue to bestow gifts on us, they just cant get anything to stick.

[KewlKat]

13. This will come up in the Hillary/drump debates

I hope her rapid response team comes up with quick and concise answers that will EDUCATE the public and smack the crap out of drumpf's lying mouth.