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Hillary Clinton

DeepModem Mom

(38,402 posts) Thu Aug 20, 2015, 12:17 AM Aug 2015

Number of documents classified by government while HRC was Secretary of State: 400 million (HILLARY GROUP)

@EricBoehlert: overclassification? approx number of US docs classified while Clinton was SoS? 400M. (80M per-yr); http://t.co/89SAid3ttF via Washington Post/Twitter

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Number of documents classified by government while HRC was Secretary of State: 400 million (HILLARY GROUP) (Original Post) DeepModem Mom Aug 2015 OP

k or m? enid602 Aug 2015 #1

Looks like it's millions -- and not by HRC, by the government: DeepModem Mom Aug 2015 #2

Hey. Pipe down. Wilms Aug 2015 #3

thank you, DMM Cha Aug 2015 #4

enid602

(8,655 posts)

1. k or m?

Reply to DeepModem Mom (Original post)

Thu Aug 20, 2015, 12:31 AM

Aug 2015

Millions or thousanfs?

DeepModem Mom

(38,402 posts)

2. Looks like it's millions -- and not by HRC, by the government:

Reply to enid602 (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 20, 2015, 12:38 AM

Aug 2015

"The government spends more than $11 billion classifying more than 80 million documents each year, according to a 2013 report from the National Archives and Records Administration."

Wilms

(26,795 posts)

3. Hey. Pipe down.

Reply to DeepModem Mom (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 20, 2015, 04:25 AM

Aug 2015

That's supposed to be top secret.

Cha

(297,693 posts)

4. thank you, DMM

Reply to DeepModem Mom (Original post)

Thu Aug 20, 2015, 05:20 AM

Aug 2015

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