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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumComey admits Classified materials were NOT PROPERLY MARKED
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/07/07/1546038/-Comey-tanks-key-GOP-talking-point-admits-classified-materials-were-not-properly-marked(emphases my own)
In the coming months, you can bank on the fact that at every opportunitywhen he isnt busy defending his anti-Semitic tweetsDonald Trump will wave his stumpy-fingered hands around while screeching Hillary lied! She sent classified emails! And like most of what comes out of his mouth, it will be a lie. A lie that is quite neatly exposed during this exchange at the most recent Republican-led investigation of an investigation of an investigation of an investigation that will somehow prove Hillary Clinton did
something:
MATT CARTWRIGHT: You were asked about markings on a few documents, I have the manual here, marking national classified security information. And I don't think you were given a full chance to talk about those three documents with the little c's on them. Were they properly documented? Were they properly marked according to the manual?
JAMES COMEY: No. [...]
MATT CARTWRIGHT: According to the manual, if you're going to classify something, there has to be a header on the document? Right?
JAMES COMEY: Correct.
MATT CARTWRIGHT: Was there a header on the three documents that we've discussed today that had the little c in the text someplace?
JAMES COMEY: No. There were three e-mails, the c was in the body, in the text, but there was no header on the email or in the text.
MATT CARTWRIGHT: So if Secretary Clinton really were an expert about what's classified and what's not classified and we're following the manual, the absence of a header would tell her immediately that those three documents were not classified. Am I correct in that?
JAMES COMEY: That would be a reasonable inference.
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MATT CARTWRIGHT: You were asked about markings on a few documents, I have the manual here, marking national classified security information. And I don't think you were given a full chance to talk about those three documents with the little c's on them. Were they properly documented? Were they properly marked according to the manual?
JAMES COMEY: No. [...]
MATT CARTWRIGHT: According to the manual, if you're going to classify something, there has to be a header on the document? Right?
JAMES COMEY: Correct.
MATT CARTWRIGHT: Was there a header on the three documents that we've discussed today that had the little c in the text someplace?
JAMES COMEY: No. There were three e-mails, the c was in the body, in the text, but there was no header on the email or in the text.
MATT CARTWRIGHT: So if Secretary Clinton really were an expert about what's classified and what's not classified and we're following the manual, the absence of a header would tell her immediately that those three documents were not classified. Am I correct in that?
JAMES COMEY: That would be a reasonable inference.
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Comey admits Classified materials were NOT PROPERLY MARKED (Original Post)
Bill USA
Jul 2016
OP
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)1. bingo
If I were the repukes, I would drop the whole "classified documents" aspect.
Which leaves them very little to hang their hats on other than the "bad idea" to have a private email server.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)2. K & R
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)3. "absence of a header would tell her those 3 documents were not classified."
JAMES COMEY: "That would be a reasonable inference."
Good post, Bill USA. Thanks. She technically should have done better, but this is in the context of over 60,000 emails.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)4. right, perfection, in th real world is rarely achieved (if ever) but 2 out 60,000 comes pretty close
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)5. Also many classified documents didn't need to be classified.
So many are given the "c" to hoard info by empire builders or cover ass over some embarrassing goof.