Re:State Dept.: Clinton IT aide's email archive is lost
by GVIrish on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @01:34PM
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By your reading, if someone removes classified markings from classified documents or makes a derivative document with classified information and sends it to your email, you are breaking the law by receiving that document.
If something is not marked properly, the receiver doesn't automatically get a security violation.
Classified items were sent to her to her private email address. Her server, which she had setup for herself, contained those classified items. That is against the law. It is also against the law to handle classified items in a way that puts them at risk.
She is responsible for the content of her server, and therefore broke the law. That she somehow didn't recognize classified material isn't a defense. The people who sent her the classified materials also broke the law (especially since they may have removed any classified markings from the documents).