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   From: multiple.felonies@hillaryclinton.com   
      
   Hillary Clinton today defended a 2011 e-mail instructing her   
   staffer at the State Department, Jacob Sullivan, to remove a   
   document’s classified marking and send it over an unsecured   
   line. “Headings are not classification notices and so oftentimes   
   we’re trying to get the best information we can,” she told John   
   Dickerson on Face the Nation. “Obviously what I’m asking for is   
   whatever can be transmitted, if it doesn’t come through secure   
   to be transmitted on the unclassified system,” Clinton said.   
   ”So, no, there is nothing to that, like so much else that has   
   been talked about in the last year.”   
      
   Dickerson said the e-mail showed she was “very facile” in how to   
   navigate around classification laws and asked, “You’re saying   
   there was never an instance, any other instance in which you did   
   that?” Clinton replied that her instructions to Sullivan reflect   
   “common practice” and then pivoted to attacking Republicans for   
   throwing things “against the wall … to see what sticks.”   
      
   Dickerson followed with a question about another e-mail in which   
   Clinton expressed bewilderment another staffer was using private   
   e-mail to conduct government business — “which is what you were   
   doing.” Clinton answered that this e-mail showed how she tried   
   recording all government business on “the government system.”   
      
   Here’s the full exchange:   
      
   DICKERSON: Aren’t you ordering him to violate the laws on   
   handling classified material there?   
      
   CLINTON: No. Not at all. As the State Department said just this   
   week, that did not happen. It never would have happened because   
   that’s just not the way I treated classified information.   
   Headings are not classification notices and so oftentimes we’re   
   trying to get the best information we can. Obviously what I’m   
   asking for is whatever can be transmitted, if it doesn’t come   
   through secure to be transmitted on the unclassified system. So,   
   no, there is nothing to that, like so much else that has been   
   talked about in the last year.   
      
   DICKERSON: So, in no instance — what’s striking about that   
   particular e-mail suggests you were very facile with how to do   
   this, this process, you knew the instructions how to get around   
   the restrictions for sending classified information. So you’re   
   saying there was never an instance, any other instance in which   
   you did that?   
      
   CLINTON: No. And it wasn’t sent. I think this is another   
   instance where, what is common practice, namely, look, I needed   
   information, I had points I had to make. I was waiting for a   
   secure fax that could give me the whole picture. But oftentimes   
   there’s a lot of information that isn’t at all classified. So   
   whatever information can be appropriately transmitted   
   unclassified often was — that’s true for every agency in the   
   government and everybody that does business with the government.   
   But the important point here is, I had great confidence because   
   I worked with Jake Sullivan for years.   
      
   He is the most meticulous, careful person you could possibly do   
   business with. And he knew exactly what was and wasn’t   
   appropriate. And in fact the State Department has said there was   
   no transmission of any classified information. It’s another   
   effort by people looking for something to throw against the   
   wall, as you said in the beginning of the program, to see what   
   sticks. But there’s no there there.   
      
   DICKERSON: Well this one is a little different since FBI is   
   investigating this specific question of whether a classification   
   was meddled with. Let me ask you about another e-mail in this   
   batch, which was one in which you seemed to express surprise   
   that somebody e-mailed on non-State Department personal e-mail,   
   which is what you were doing. Why was that a surprise to you?   
      
   CLINTON: Well, I e-mailed two people on their government   
   accounts because I knew that all of that would be part of the   
   government system. Indeed the vast majority of all my e-mails   
   are in the government system. That’s how I conducted the   
   business. I was very clear about e-mailing anything having to do   
   with business to people on their government accounts.   
      
   http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/429520/hillary-instructing-   
   staffer-delete-classified-heading-common-practice   
             
      
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