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In reply to the discussion: Obama may have a very difficult decision to make re: Hillary [View all]pnwmom
(110,261 posts)concerns retroactive classification -- deciding whether information that wasn't classified then should be classified now.
As head of the agency, Hillary was the authority for deciding whether any State document needed to be classified or not. And no one has ever shown any evidence that this concerns classified info from other agencies.
But now, because of the practice of retroactive classification, other people can review her emails and second guess her department's decisions. It doesn't mean she was wrong then -- anymore than it is wrong that different agencies in the government have different subjective judgments about what needs to be classified.
The head of the national archives, who must store all this classified info, says that in his opinion more than half should have never been classified.