2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton's Private Server... Laugh it off. Nothing to see here... move along please! [View all]TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)"was classified then and classified now". So she (or most likely her staff, who would take the blame) received or sent classified info on her private system. That also raises the question of how many more of the thousands of her emails contain secret or top secret info, according to the WSJ article. Whether or not you believe her personal server was hacked, or encrypted, or whatever, doesn't change the fact that her home system was not legally allowed to transmit or hold classified information. That info is supposed to be transmitted in designated ways. It will be interesting to see where this goes--probably nowhere, the DOJ will probably decline to investigate, because they and FBI BARELY punished Petraeus for knowingly mishandling classified info, keeping it at home, etc. His problem was lying to the FBI. In Clinton's case, they'll decide that because the info wasn't clearly marked as classified, then she or her staff didn't know it was classified. Ignorance is no excuse, but sometimes it's the best defense.