[wesnerm2]

The difference between Hillary Clinton and others who were charged for retaining classified data is that Hillary Clinton had the authority bestowed to her by Executive Order 12958 and 13526 to classify and declassify information at the "top secret" level that originated from the State Department.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/02/...

[tynpeddler]

I guess we would have to read the emails to know if she had the authority to reclassify them. Otherwise “This authority(...) did not extend to information generated by other agencies, such as CIA.”

[hga]

And the very worst stuff we've learned about is some of Sid Blumenthal's emails, who shouldn't even have access to this stuff, forwarding highest level NSA stuff, the sort that can get people killed in real time, the stuff that's protected at as or higher a level than, say, nuclear weapons secrets (I have friends who've worked for both the NSA and LLNL).

There is no possible way she has the authority on her own, or the State Department by itself, to allow her kitchen cabinet blow the covers of these people and methods, she in fact had a duty to report such breaches.

[ethanbond]

Ah, so she's not an sketchy outlaw... she's a sketchy lawman.

That puts my mind at ease.