<story><title>FBI Statement on Clinton Email System</title><url>https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b.-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clintons-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tanderson92</author><text>&amp;gt; From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, &lt;i&gt;110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received&lt;/i&gt;. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.&lt;p&gt;(emphasis mine)&lt;p&gt;This seems like a clear contradiction of a common Clinton talking point, that none of the e-mails were classified &lt;i&gt;at the time they were sent&lt;/i&gt;. Director Comey even goes so far as to use the same language the Clintons have been employing. Will we see a walk-back of that line in light of this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nanny</author><text>&amp;gt;This seems like a clear contradiction of a common Clinton talking point&lt;p&gt;Straight from her website:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Clinton only used her account for unclassified email. No information in Clinton&amp;#x27;s emails was marked classified at the time she sent or received them.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hillaryclinton.com&amp;#x2F;briefing&amp;#x2F;factsheets&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;email-facts&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hillaryclinton.com&amp;#x2F;briefing&amp;#x2F;factsheets&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;1...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>FBI Statement on Clinton Email System</title><url>https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b.-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clintons-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tanderson92</author><text>&amp;gt; From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, &lt;i&gt;110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received&lt;/i&gt;. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.&lt;p&gt;(emphasis mine)&lt;p&gt;This seems like a clear contradiction of a common Clinton talking point, that none of the e-mails were classified &lt;i&gt;at the time they were sent&lt;/i&gt;. Director Comey even goes so far as to use the same language the Clintons have been employing. Will we see a walk-back of that line in light of this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noobermin</author><text>When has Clinton ever flipped on an issue? &lt;i&gt;cough&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>