2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I have two questions about the email controversy [View all]HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Some documents are considered 'classified at birth', as the very origin and information within is assumed to be classified even before its reviewed. Clinton received instruction on handling such information when she became SoS, yet apparently did send and received such information....including from Blumenthall who did not have a security clearance.
In one particular email exchange, a staffer was having difficulty in sending a document, and she instructed the staffer to 'strip the headings'. Details haven't been made clear, but it appears likely (from the importance FBI has given it) that those headings were 'top secret' type labels.
Laws and regulations require preserving all emails, and relinquishing them upon leaving govt. Clinton did not turn over the emails when she left, despite signing a document stating she did so, and stalled turning them over for 2 years. She deleted 30,000 emails when finally forced to turn over her emails, claiming they were personal. However, some were determined to be work-related, including several containing classified information.
When she left the State Dept, she deactivated the server and had it stored in a facility in NJ. IDK the security of the facility... however, it doesn't appear that anyone at the facility had any security clearance at all. And one internal memo from the security facility, an employee expresses concern about the contents of the server and the instructions to wipe them.