Hillary Clinton Defends Not Knowing State Department Classification Markings - ABC News
Hillary finally said it!!!!!! "There were no headers on the thousands of emails that I sent or received."
following with: "and the FBI has not in any way contradicted that." ....(could have had "classified" in there before "headers"
Okay, you said it Hillary.. but in a rather circumlocuted way. Your advisors are screwing up. Telling you to be so wimpy about pointing out that Comey confirmed what you said about not sending or receiving anything marked classified.
IMO it would still have been better if your statement was simpler and more direct. Something like:.....
[blockquote style="background: #ddeeff;"] "As I said before: None of the emails I sent or received were marked classified. That is, none had classified headers on them. And Director Comey when questioned by Rep. Cartwright confirmed that."
(hell, if it was up to me I'd have you walk into your interview with a tablet Computer under your arm. THen when you made the statement above you could say; "here's the tape of Cartwright's question and Director Comey's answer, Just so there's no misunderstanding." ___ this is the only way this would be seen on M$M tv!
Now, you can say this in a no-drama, low key way (so your advisors don't get upset). There is nothing WRONG with you stating facts which confirm what you said. You don't have to be a wimp to be liked. (that's for your advisors to read). When you say things in a roundabout way many voters won't even 'catch' what you said and Conservatives and their sheep will characterize your statement as dissimulating and sneaky. For a lot of voters it's better to keep it simple and straight-forward.
Here's the ABC News article. BTW, there is pretty hot commenting to this article going on - for those who might be motivated to fight Big Lies. (It just might indicate to ABC news that Democratic viewers care about what is printed or said on the news. - NOT just the campaign staff!)
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-defends-knowing-state-department-classification-markings/story?id=41889151
After the FBI's release of government documents last week that were part of the Hillary Clinton email probe, she told ABC's David Muir Monday that she takes "classification very seriously" and sees the release of those documents as the end of "a very difficult period."
"I have learned that trying to explain what happened made it sound to some people like I was trying to excuse it. There are no excuses," she told Muir in Cleveland.
She added, "I take responsibility. I made a mistake. I've apologized, and obviously I wish I could do differently what happened. I certainly would never do that again."
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"There were no headers on the thousands of emails that I sent or received. There just weren't, and the FBI has not in any way contradicted that. There were a couple of emails with a tiny 'C' in a parenthesis, which did not have a header saying that means 'confidential' in this circumstance and which the director of the FBI has said and the State Department has said those couple of emails were improperly marked, even with that. So, yes, I take classification seriously, and I think the record shows that I have," she said.
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