By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--March 9, 2016
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"The State Department has redacted and declared 2,101 of your work emails classified - at least at the confidential level. 44 Classified as secret, 22 classified as top secret. So you said at a March press conference in 2015 'I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material.' So, can we say - definitively - that that statement's not accurate?"You can watch her completely incoherent, rambling, answer here: First of all, remember the good old days when this woman was carping about how Colin Powell was an evil liar who sold the world on an illegal war? Why is he suddenly the poster boy for defending every hack Democrat crook that tumbles into hot water? More importantly, and we've said this a thousand times, it doesn't matter if the State Department marked it classified or not. Hillary, as the person handling (and apparently distributing) sensitive material, is the person who is supposed to be making that determination. She can't even claim that she didn't know this, since she signed an NDA that indicated precisely that. We don't even need to get into the remarkably incriminating fact that she was ordering subordinates to strip the classification markings from the info that was passing through her server. It's awful, and it further spotlights her disdain for the law, but the markings don't really matter. She - no one else - had the responsibility of determining if the intel she was transmitting should be handled according to the established guidelines for sensitive material. End of story. The fact that she's still clinging to the flimsy "it was marked" argument is simply stunning - and it should serve as an indicator that she has no better explanation. She knows she's nailed, dead to rights. All she can do now is follow the standard Clintonian scandal battle-plan. She'll repeat her standard line of manure and hope that "frindlies," in this case Obama's DOJ, will protect her from an indictment. Make no mistake, if ANY Republican had done this, the left and its media allies would be calling it "gross negligence" at best, and "espionage" at worst.
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