Comey admits Classified materials were NOT PROPERLY MARKED

[Bill USA]

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 opportunity—when he isn’t busy defending his anti-Semitic tweets—Donald 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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(note: transcripts of Congressional hearings are a matter of public record and copyright protection does not apply)

[lapfog_1]

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]

2. K & R

[Hortensis]

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]

4. right, perfection, in th real world is rarely achieved (if ever) but 2 out 60,000 comes pretty close

[Hortensis]

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.