St Dept. withholds ‘classified’ info from Clinton emails,despite claim of 'no classified material'

foxnews ^ | 7/1/15 | foxnews

[bestintxas]

A State Department spokesman said Wednesday that details from 25 emails were deemed classified and withheld from the 3,000-page trove of Hillary Clinton documents released overnight -- despite the former secretary of state claiming she never sent classified material on her personal email.

State Department spokesman John Kirby acknowledged at a briefing that details from the 25 emails are now considered "classified." The messages were released, with those portions redacted.

However, Clinton declared in March that she "did not email any classified material to anyone" on her account.

"There is no classified material. So I'm certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material," Clinton said at the time, shortly before declaring her Democratic presidential bid.

The State Department's decision to withhold the records, though, doesn't necessarily mean Clinton knowingly sent classified material -- as it was classified after the fact.

[LibertyOh]

“The failure to secure classified material is a statutory infraction, not treason. Could be some treason in there, but I doubt it.”

The big question that no one seems to be asking is why the State Department and others did not take action when it was determined there was classified information on an unsecure machine. There are occasions I have seen where the Government’s security guide changed and information that had been unclassified needed to be secured. Normally security personel would secure the information, including any computers and disks that had the information. I can’t imagine laws were not broken by failure to secure the server. Congress should be pressing hard on this - it’s time for a public outcry for a special prosecutor. This is not “just about sex.”