A whole new batch of Hillary's e-mails were released on Wednesday by a State Department kicking and screaming, but under orders from a federal judge to follow the law. And in case you're still buying Hillary's incredible assertion that she never sent or received a single bit of classified information in four years as Secretary of State, the Washington Times has the early reviews on what was found:
More than 5 percent of the latest batch of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, released Wednesday, contain classified information — or twice the rate of the previous releases, raising tricky questions about whether the department is finding more secrets or being more thorough in screening the messages
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All told, at least 400 messages out of nearly 12,000 emails released so far contain information that the government now deems classified.
But 214 of those messages came in the latest batch of 3,869 messages, for a classification rate of 5.5 percent.
The messages were not marked classified at the time they were sent — usually in 2010 or 2011, for the latest batch — but the government has gone back and determined that they contained information that shouldn’t be public.
The argument that the messages were "not marked classified at the time" has been a huge line of defense Hillary continually repeats, along with the claim that using a homebrew server exclusively for all work-related e-mails was "allowed" by the State Department. But you see the problem with both, right? Hillary was Secretary of State. She was the one who decided what was allowed by the State Department. She also had the authority to classify information.
So if there was stuff that should have been classified but wasn't, and has since been classified in retrospect, who fell down on the job by not classifying it at the time? Hillary did. If it's really true that 5 percent of all her e-mails contained information that should not have been accessible to the public, but neither Hillary or those in her employ ever bothered to classify any of them, that is not an argument in her defense. It argues that she was sloppy and unconcerned with protecting national secrets, and was far more concerned with protecting her own personal and political secrets.
Oh, by the way, the report also tells us that Russian hackers managed to send Hillary e-mails containing malware links at least five times. We don't know if Hillary was dumb enough to click them - actually we know she's dumb enough but that doesn't mean she did - but we also don't know if this was the extent of the attempt by these and/or other hackers to get at Hillary's computer. These five are just the ones we know about, and no one can say for sure that no hacking attempt was ever successful.
What we can say for sure is that if she had used the government's e-mail server as policy says she was supposed to do - despite her insistence to the contrary - she would have been operating in a much more secure environment and in all likelihood these e-mails would never have even reached her inbox.
But that wasn't her priority. Avoiding public scrutiny and the Freedom of Information Act was - and by the way, she didn't succeed at that either, which means she is neither honest nor smart.
Oh, one other thing: The FBI now says there are two months' worth of her work e-mails they can't find. Was Rosemary Woods part of HillaryWorld?
