2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: So let me get this straight... [View all]dsc
(53,315 posts)and make you say anything I like. Yes, they do have to sample what the department turned over and not emails they don't have. But they chose 40 out of 40,000 and did Gowdy's committee choose these, if so, then I frankly don't think it was anything like a random sample of the 40,000. Also, even if it is a random sample, the n is so small that the MOE on an estimate of what percent of the email had classified info would be huge. As to your second point, frankly that is according to the times who have been repeatedly incorrect. Unless, and until I see confirmation from the inspectors themselves and not the anonymous sources the Times are relying on I won't believe them. The fact is, apparently the retroactive classification is quite common.