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80. "I never sent classified material" is a word game.

Fri Apr 1, 2016, 02:03 PM

Apr 2016

When Hillary insists that she "never sent classified material" she is parsing.

There are documents and materials--that are marked as "classified"

However, she was originating emails. She was writing them. So, of course they wouldn't be marked "classified" or "top secret". It's my understanding that this type of material is defined as "born classified."

It may be true that she never sent "marked classified documents".

However, are we to believe that out of the tens of thousand of emails that she sent as Secretary of State, that she never once--discussed anything or originated any emails that contained sensitive information? It was her job to deal with foreign-policy and foreign governments. This seems impossible.

It has all ready been made public that the government has retroactively classified several of Hillary's emails as "top secret" and countless other emails as "classified." Obviously, this signals that she did in fact send "top secret" and "classified" information. It may not have been marked, but of course it wouldn't. She wrote it!

Again, word games.

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