2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: So let me get this straight... [View all]ChiTownDenny
(747 posts)It just didn't get into the weeds on this bogus story. Two separate gov't. agencies dispute whether documents should be classified. On the one hand you have the Intelligence Community Inspector General which believes the emails and many more should have been classified from conception. On the other hand you have the State Dept. that doesn't think so. So you have turf wars, basically, over who gets to decide what should be classified and when. A FOIA request is made for HRC emails, already in possession of State Dept. and considered unclassified by State Dept. Suddenly NYT reports not only that HRC possessed classified emails (because IG said they were classified, not State Dept.) on her personal server but that there is now a criminal investigation into her handling of emails.
Total smear job by the NYT.