Hillary's classified email

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73. OK, I won't argue that.

Haven't seen data on that, but I'll take you at your word. America has been screwing around in oil countries for decades, that isn't a shock to anybody on this planet.

Still, quoted bit in the OP is off. Blumenthal nor Drumheller have any right or capability to declare what is or is not actually classified. Why would Clinton think she'd need to alert security about what some journalist had dug up from an ex-CIA spook? The guy isn't on the Reservation anymore, he doesn't have creds and he's not analyzing fresh intel in Langley. And if he did have fresh intel, then there's a leak at the CIA. Which would be very odd since Hillary, if she wanted, could have asked for any data from the CIA she wanted and that probably would have been granted, so no need for a leak.

Its odd that Hillary would 1) take what a journalist, even one she knows well, as fact and 2) forward it to an assistant remarking how "timely" the information was. We don't know the context of "timely" is, what her motivation to forward that on is and what she thought to gain from it. The snipped in the OP doesn't go into that. We can only speculate at Hillary's motives at the moment.