Re top secret email on Hillary's server

[Gman]

This article hit an hour or so ago.

http://bigstory.ap.org/urn:publicid:ap.org:e19abf78b6fe43e7b7719f059901630d

It's important to point out that the emails in question are being classified top secret after the fact. They were not classified as such previous to this review. And the headline was misleading at first.

[MADem]

1. It's bullshit. Retroactive classification is a weak-sauce game.

It's funny, they can't "get" anything on her, so they're trying for the "Ewwwww--CLASSIFIED!" poutrage.

Not only was the material not classified when she had it, the sad fact is that, during the Bush years, all of the hard work done to REDUCE classification in the post-Nixon years was pretty much UNDONE.

They'll classify shit you can read in the German papers over breakfast. It's stupid! From your link:

Even if Clinton only read, and didn't write or forward the secret messages, she still would have been required to report classification slippages that she recognized. But without classification markings, that may have been difficult, especially if the information was in the public domain.

"We firmly oppose the complete blocking of the release of these emails," Clinton campaign spokesman Brain Fallon said in a statement. "Since first providing her emails to the State Department more than one year ago, Hillary Clinton has urged that they be made available to the public. We feel no differently today."

Fallon accused the "loudest and leakiest participants" in a process of bureaucratic infighting for withholding the exchanges. The documents, he said, originated in the State Department's unclassified system long before they ever reached Clinton, and "in at least one case, the emails appear to involve information from a published news article."

"This appears to be overclassification run amok," Fallon said.

[comradebillyboy]

3. But but but Darryl Issa says the FBI

will indict Hillary. Of course he neglects to note that the FBI doesn't have the authority to hand down indictments. But yes it's a clear case of retroactive over classification.

[MADem]

5. Yeah...and Darryl Issa will be governor of California (boo hoo, sob, sob....waaah, blubber!!)

If you don't want to watch the whole thing, just zip ahead to one minute, twenty six seconds or so....

[Gman]

6. So did Tom Delay

[Iliyah]

2. GOPers are very afraid . . .

They are doing everything possible to derail her along with help from the other side.

[Kath1]

9. Exactly.

Just more of the same.

[yallerdawg]

4. Just more of the same.

Fallon accused the "loudest and leakiest participants" in a process of bureaucratic infighting for withholding the exchanges. The documents, he said, originated in the State Department's unclassified system long before they ever reached Clinton, and "in at least one case, the emails appear to involve information from a published news article."

"This appears to be overclassification run amok," Fallon said.

Kirby said the State Department was focused, as part of the Freedom of Information Act review of Clinton's emails, on "whether they need to be classified today." Questions about their past classification, he said, "are being, and will be, handled separately by the State Department."

[Gman]

8. With that very clear wording

said, "So don't even think about trying to say she stored top secret info on an insecure server."

A right winger refused to bet me $100. He said she was days away from being indicted. I offered to bet $100 she would not be indicted. He weasled out.

[BlueCaliDem]

7. Tempest in a teapot. Of course, U.S. media - already carrying water for the GOP - will make a huge

brouhaha about this. I just hope the Hillary Clinton campaign get their best people out there to counter the smears and attempts at innuendo the moment these rear their ugly heads because the U.S. Media sure as shit won't. They're too busy blowing smoke up Trump's rump on how fantastic he is.