I am reading Corn and Isikoff's book "Russian Roulette"

[triron]

They mention the announcement on July5 2016 about "110 emails that had classified information at the tine they were sent".
I recall Comey's later testimony before congress where there was discussion of only 3 emails that were
marked with a "c" but there was no classified headers on any of these. Thus Hillary wasn't properly notified that these emails had classified information. How did 110 become 3? What am I missing? Sorry for bringing this up but it bugs me.

[JonLP24]

1. I recommend that book

I'm still at the section about the pop star. Sorry, can't help with your question though

[eleny]

2. Write to David Corn and ask!

[oberliner]

3. Most of the 110 didn't have markings clearly delineating their status

[triron]

5. That makes sense. Thanks!

It perturbs me that Corn and Isikoff fail to clarify this. They make it look bad for Hillary,
unjustifiably so.

[oberliner]

8. You're welcome

It's all so ridiculous that "Hillary's emails" was even a big deal at the time considering what we are dealing with today.

[FakeNoose]

4. I believe the issue was that certain emails

...discuss issues that were not considered classified at the time that Hillary wrote them, or received them.

They became classified at a later date retro-actively, and therefore Jim Comey's group didn't consider them a violation when they looked into it.

Hillary never sent emails that contained classified info to people who didn't have security clearance, she was always careful. Security protocols were always maintained, in spite of the fact that the Repugs looked for every reason to crucify her, they never found a single instance of her violating security protocols.

[triron]

6. The whole email 'scandal' was a fiasco perpetrated by the repukes.

[exboyfil]

7. As I understand it they were

stripped of their classification or involved classified information not actually from a document. This was (and probably still is) a common practice to facilitate government action in departments like State (probably Defense, Homeland Security and even Justice I would suspect). The argument would be that she should have known what was classified (I don't know if it was a valid argument). The emails originated in general from the unclassified government system by lower level employees in these departments. Those who originated them bare the brunt of responsibility for stripping and sending the documents. In some cases she forwarded or replied to the emails as well.

If it had all stayed in the government system, she would not have had as much of a problem. The problem is that the emails were mixed with her personal email (an insane thing to be done in my opinion but also a regular occurrence for higher level department leadership - Powell, Condi Rice's aids, etc. all having done it). I think the server thing is a red herring. Why does it matter whether it was on her personal server or AOL. They might be just as unrecoverable (see Powell) on that system and probably even less secure.

I am sure if she had it to do over again she would not have had personal and government emails in the same account, and she would have kept all government emails on the unclassified government system.

The classification system is really out of control in the US government, but in many cases you may never know why something is classified. I do know that when I worked in a classified environment, I took it very seriously (unlike one senior manager who left a Secret document under a blueprint when he went to lunch and later forgot about it until it was found be a guard).

[Midnight Writer]

9. One example I saw was an E-mail sent to her mentioning American drone strikes. Even though everyone

knows American drones are striking targets in the Mideast, officially it is a classified program. The Republicans seized on this as a violation of classified material, even though the reference was from news reports.