| Don't apologize - factcheck.org is right; thehill.com is wrong. Just go back to the original FBI report here:[1]. None of the e-mails were properly marked; three e-mails chains consisting of eight individual messages had at least one paragraph marked with a (C), but no header, footer, other portion marks, etc. to indicate classification. The content of two of those e-mail chains were determined to be unclassified based on current classification guidance. There were 81 e-mail chains from her server that should have been marked as classified because they contained classified information (and thus shouldn't have been sent over unclassified e-mail). Quite a few outlets have made the mistake of conflating being marked as classified with containing classified information. The thehill.com article links to another article using the phrase 'Twenty-two emails in eight different chains of messages were [marked as top secret]', but the article they link to says 'The Obama administration will entirely withhold 22 emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server because they have been classified as “top secret,”...'. The point of classification markings is to unambiguously identify that the document contains classified information, what parts are classified and how to protect it. If it's not marked as such, there's the possibility that the recipient(s) won't realize that there's classified information in it. The most likely reason that the e-mails with classified information were sent in the first place was most likely that the sender didn't realize that the information was classified, or there might be differences in opinion between multiple government organizations as to whether a particular is classified or to what degree it is classified. An example is drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen - according to CIA that information is classified, but you could read about it in the newspapers. Based on the description from factcheck.org, I was able to find two of e-mails with the (C) portion marks: [2],[3] Note that [3] was not redacted because it was classified, but rather due to FOIA exemption (you can see that everything after the (C) was left unredacted). [2] was redacted on account of both containing confidential information in the last paragraph as well as FOIA exemption. [1] https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/hillary-r.-clinton-... (page 20) [2] http://graphics.wsj.com/hillary-clinton-email-documents/pdfs... [3] http://graphics.wsj.com/hillary-clinton-email-documents/pdfs... |