Obama may have a very difficult decision to make re: Hillary

[jeff47]

40. And you're wrong again.

As head of the agency, Hillary was the authority for deciding whether any State document needed to be classified or not.

Only if the information enters the government through the State Department.

If the information enters the government through an intelligence agency, the DNI gets to decide what's classified. Clinton can not overrule the DNI's decision - he's her peer.

The information in the emails entered the government through an intelligence agency. Clinton gets no say as to whether or not it is classified. (Neither does the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of Energy)

But now, because of the practice of retroactive classification

Nope, it was already classified. It was not properly marked. The only retroactive is properly marking the classified information.

Clinton, the State Department spokesman, and her supporters have worked very, very hard to imply retroactive marking is retroactive classification. This is not true.

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.

He's not the DNI. So he can't overrule the original classification. Heck, he doesn't even have classification authority.

I've explained this to you many times in many threads. Please stop spreading disinformation.