I have two questions about the email controversy [View all]

[ContinentalOp]

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First, we've been told that the emails were only classified after the fact. Is there any evidence that any of the emails were marked classified at the time they were sent?

Secondly, does the SOS not have the power to declassify documents? Newsweek says "both Powell and Rice had the authority, granted by President George W. Bush through executive order, to classify and declassify any document created by the State Department. So if either of them had received an email from another agency containing information that had not gone through a SCIF, he or she could have independently declared that it did not need to be secret and sent it along to anyone they chose."
http://www.newsweek.com/colin-powell-emails-hillary-clinton-424187