PolitiFact - Clinton exaggerates absence of classified information in her emails

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PolitiFact - Clinton exaggerates absence of classified information in her emails
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Hillary Clinton said she had zero emails that were classified. Every investigation backs that up, but staffers included references to information that some agencies considered to be classified.

The State Department cited Clinton for three security violations for failing to follow department protocols.review of how the FBI handled its investigation noted that prosecutors found no evidence that Clinton and her colleagues ever intended to put classified materials into their email exchanges.."The senders often refrained from using specific classified facts or terms in emails and worded emails carefully in an attempt to ‘talk around’ classified information.

On the other hand, State Department investigators concluded that although staff members sometimes shared information that they shouldn’t have, by and large, they"were aware of security policies and did their best to implement them in their operations." "There is no one standard for classification," Thomas Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University,in early August."It's in the eye of the beholder. We have published thousands of examples of documents and parts of documents that one agency considered declassified and another agency kept classified; and in hundreds of cases, the difference was between two components of the same agency.

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