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In reply to the discussion: CNN continues to trumpet false narrative WRT the sending of "classified" emails [View all]lapucelle
(21,042 posts)Does it have anything to do with Comey repeating the canard that Hillary "knew or should have known that the information was classified", The FBI and the State Department have different standards for classification, so even if Comey thinks a piece of information would be classified, it doesn't mean that State would give it the same designation.
In addition, the three emails with "markings" did not have classified headings which State Department employees rely on in determining how to assess information they receive. There were section markings in the form of a (c). Two of the emails should never included those (c) markings at all.
(C) is the marking that the State Department uses for confidential information (rather than classified), so this led to further confusion on Comey's part.
Hillary had a good reason to infer that any communication sent to her from or forwarded to her to any state.gov address did not contain classified information. The State Department and its employees do not use the state.gov system for classified communications.