Politics: WaPo: At least 188 of Hillary's e-mails contained classified material

Remember when Hillary insisted that she never sent or received classified material on her poorly secured, illegal homebrew server? Actually you don't have to remember it because she's still going around saying it - which becomes more hilarious every day with what we're finding out about what she actually did on that server. No classified e-mails, eh? Try 188 by the liberal Washington Post's most recent count, including six that Hillary originated herself:

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While she was secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote and sent at least six e-mails using her private server that contained what government officials now say is classified information, according to thousands of e-mails released by the State Department. Although government officials deemed the e-mails classified after Clinton left office, they could complicate her efforts to move beyond the political fallout from the controversy. They suggest that her role in distributing sensitive material via her private e-mail system went beyond receiving notes written by others, and appears to contradict earlier public statements in which she denied sending or receiving e-mails containing classified information. The classified e-mails, contained in thousands of pages of electronic correspondence that the State Department has released, stood out because of the heavy markings blocking out sentences and, in some cases, entire messages. The State Department officials who redacted the material cited national security as the reason for blocking it from public view.

That last sentence is classic. According to Hillary, nothing was classified and there is no cause for concern. But according to the State Department, we can't see it because it might endanger national security if we do. Maybe we should ask the North Koreans what they said. Or the Chinese. Or the Russians. There's probably no sensitive information they're not aware of thanks to Hillary's scofflaw e-mail methods.

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And that gets us to a much bigger point here. Hillary's defenders are, as usual, trying to use the letter of the law to extricate her from trouble. They're arguing about whether classified information was really classified, or when it was marked classified, with one numbskull even trying to make the case that there is not a "binary" distinction to be made between classified and not classified. All of which misses the point: The Secretary of State is clearly going to deal in information that, whether technically marked classified or not, we do not want hackers - particularly those associated with our enemies - to get their hands on. That's why people in sensitive positions like the one she held are supposed to use the government's e-mail system, which operates on the government's highly secure server. But Hillary didn't want to do that because she didn't want her e-mails subject to legal scrutiny, so she insisted on using a not-at-all-secure server serviced by a company that kept the server hardware in a bathroom closet in Colorado. And to demonstrate her ignorance about how all this works, she claimed it had to be secure because her house is always surrounded by Secret Service agents - as if hackers jump your fence and enter your house to find out what's on your computer. (Then again, the Secret Service record in stopping fence jumpers isn't that great either.) If Hillary had just used a state.gov e-mail address like she was supposed to, none of this would even matter. But she had to have things her own way, because she has her own agenda and she always has - which is to first and always do only what benefits Hillary Clinton. Regardless of how many e-mails contained information marked classified - and clearly there were a lot - the fact remains that Hillary was putting the security of important information in jeopardy simply by using this idiotic e-mail setup, when there was never any reason she needed to do so. Unless, of course, she had something to hide. Which, of course, she does.

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