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Trump Mocks Clinton Classification Mistake, Makes Mistake Himself
By Kristin Salaky
PublishedSeptember 5, 2016, 1:23 PM EDT
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Trump mocked Clinton on Twitter for telling FBI investigators during questioning on her email servers that she was not given training on what the marking on certain documents meant and that she could not recall "any briefing or training" that would have told her what the "C" meant.
But, as CNN reported, John Noonan, national security adviser to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) and former GOP nominee Mitt Romney, tweeted that Trump did not seem to know what that "C" on documents means either.
According to Noonan, that "C" does not mean classified, but indicates that documents are "confidential" which is a lower security ranking. ..................................
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It's the lowest classified level. Weird that a former national security adviser doesn't know that.
What bothers me about the whole thing is that "
C)" doesn't strike me as an appropriate marking for classified material. Classified material should be CLEARLY marked as such (in order for people to be able to recognize it and handle it properly), but " C)" is pretty ambiguous, it could mean copyright, or some sort of section notation.
The fact that this isn't focused on the agency policies or people responsible for the insufficient marking, but rather on Clinton (who didn't even originate the material, but was involved in the conversation) just reinforces my view that this is a witch hunt.
On Edit: Read the Tweets, Noonan was correcting Trump's assertion that C literally stood for "classified," it's clear he knows that confidential is classified.
