When Karl Rove deleted 22 million White House emails and the media yawned.

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67. He doesn't say that she sent any officially classified email.

He only offered his opinion that the "unclassified system was no place for that conversation."

And numerous articles have mentioned that different departments of the government had different standards and opinions about what information needs to be classified. The head of the national archives, which is in charge of storing all this information, says that the majority of information actually marked classified doesn't need to be classified. But there is no downside for over-classification, so it often occurs.

There is no such thing as "born classified" information, despite some of the false claims you will read by RWers. There is a specific process for classifying and declassifying info, and Hillary never sent any email that had been classified as such.

http://prospect.org/article/why-hillary-wont-be-indicted-and-shouldnt-be-objective-legal-analysis

Why Hillary Won't Be Indicted and Shouldn't Be: An Objective Legal Analysis

There is no reason to think that Clinton committed any crimes with respect to the use of her email server.

Richard O. Lempert, University of Michigan Professor of Law

The statute also provides a definition of what constitutes classified information within the meaning of the subsection described above: “[C]lassified information, means information which, at the time of a violation of this section, is specifically designated by a United States Government Agency for … restricted dissemination.”

Again, the most important words are the ones I have italicized. First, they indicate that the material must have been classified at the time of disclosure. Post hoc classification, which seems to characterize most of the classified material found on Clinton’s server, cannot support an indictment under this section. Second, information no matter how obviously sensitive does not classify itself; it must be officially and specifically designated as such.