Let's put our heads together on the Clinton e-mail scandal

[paulthompson]

50. Indeed

I mentioned this in my original post in this thread, although I didn't have a link for it. I think that's one of the smoking guns. Clinton has tried to argue that there was no classified info on her server, and even if there was, she didn't know it at the time. Besides, there's retroactive classification that's nothing but overclassification run amok.

This puts a lie to all that. It shows she was deliberately not marking classified things classified, as if that makes it okay.

But that's not how things work. Some information is obviously classified whether it's marked classified or not. For instance, there are certain secret programs where any mention of them is classified, no matter what. That's one thing that's going to get her in trouble.

And - duh! - if someone just told you something is classified, simply removing the header with the word "classified" on it doesn't make it not classified!

One doesn't have to prove criminal intent for some of the charges in play here. She can be charged and found guilty of gross negligence simply for having classified information on her server, no matter what the circumstances. But this smoking gun sure looks like it could prove criminal intent to me, putting her at risk of more serious charges too.