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Re:State Dept.: Clinton IT aide's email archive is lost by GVIrish on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @11:26AM (#11667877)
There is more than one network in use at State Department. Opennet is for unclassified materials and that is the network that the Secretary's public email would be interacting with. There is another network expressly for classified material, and the Secretary has a separate email address for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_United_States_websi...

Yes, email classifications can be changed after the fact, but that in and of itself would not constitute wrongdoing by the Secretary. Colin Powell did exactly the same thing and wasn't punished after the fact either.

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Re:State Dept.: Clinton IT aide's email archive is lost by Mendenhall on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @11:41AM (#11668008)
She had no .gov address ever, so she had no separate address that was solely for classified. Article discusses some of that.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clinto...

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Re:State Dept.: Clinton IT aide's email archive is lost by Bedon292 on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @12:21PM (#11668332)
The .gov email would have served the exact same purpose of the personal email: unclassified conversations. There are complete separate networks, with separate email addresses, that are for classified discussions. They are completely unreachable from unclassified networks, and would be required to actually have classified conversations.
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Re:State Dept.: Clinton IT aide's email archive is lost by ryanmerket on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @01:59PM (#11669184)
And when FOIA requests came in for her .gov emails, she said she didn't have any emails. It took Sydney Blumenthal's hack to get her to admit that she did have an unclassified email address.
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