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Re:State Dept.: Clinton IT aide's email archive is lost by GVIrish on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @01:04PM (#11668709)
> Information is born classified, markings are irrelevant.

Not sure what you mean by this. An enormous amount of effort is expended in government to mark classified and confidential documents properly, set their disposition dates, record who classified it and why, and so forth.

Classification is not just determined at the time of the creation of a document/artifact, it can be changed as a result of being coupled with other information, or by changes in circumstances, or simply by different readings of by different people.

Re:State Dept.: Clinton IT aide's email archive is lost by uremog on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @01:17PM (#11668824)
Spending time marking it is just a means to an end. Even if you hide (or don't have) all the markings, it's still classified.

The end being, proper handling.