{"id":50613,"date":"2016-09-29T08:19:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T12:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=50613"},"modified":"2016-09-29T08:20:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T12:20:51","slug":"comey-clinton-may-not-have-understood-classified-marking-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=50613","title":{"rendered":"Comey: Clinton May Not Have Understood Classified Marking System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ISSUE HAWK<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/issuehawk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jamescomey-530x298.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/issuehawk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jamescomey-530x298.jpg 530w, http:\/\/issuehawk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jamescomey-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/issuehawk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jamescomey-200x112.jpg 200w, http:\/\/issuehawk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jamescomey.jpg 690w\" alt=\"jamescomey\" width=\"530\" height=\"298\" data-wp-pid=\"15240\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"nrelate_flyout_placeholder\">\n<p>FBI Director James Comey suggested on Thursday that Hillary Clinton may not have understood the classified marking system.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Comey questions if Clinton was &quot;sophisticated enough&quot; to understand a classified marking <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ixbo4KdXye\">https:\/\/t.co\/ixbo4KdXye<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R7jMfaD2Kb\">https:\/\/t.co\/R7jMfaD2Kb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNPolitics\/status\/751076554306908161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Hill <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/286850-comey-questions-whether-clinton-realized-emails-were\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During a House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) pressed Comey about whether he was testifying that Clinton didn\u2019t know what a classified marking is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, not that she would have no idea what a classified marking would be,\u201d Comey responded. \u201cIt\u2019s an interesting question whether she \u2026 was actually sophisticated enough to understand what a C in [parentheses] means.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou asked me if I would assume someone would know,\u201d he added. \u201cProbably before this investigation, I would have. I am not so sure of that any longer. I think it\u2019s possible \u2014 possible \u2014 that she didn\u2019t know what a C meant when she saw it in the body of an email like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emails containing sensitive information are supposed to be marked at the top of a message or in the subject line to indicate that the contents are classified.<\/p>\n<p>The press secretary for Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign seized on Comey\u2019s testimony as evidence the former secretary of State did not intentionally lie when she said there were no emails marked classified on her private server.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDirector Comey acknowledges the so-called \u2018marked\u2019 emails were not properly marked in a way one could recognize them as classified,\u201d Brian Fallon, a former Justice Department spokesman, tweeted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Photo credit: Stateofthenation2012.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/issuehawk.com\/eric\/2016\/07\/08\/comey-clinton-may-not-have-understood-classified-marking-system.html#MjS1YoCOmkCo0O0m.99\">http:\/\/issuehawk.com\/eric\/2016\/07\/08\/comey-clinton-may-not-have-understood-classified-marking-system.html#MjS1YoCOmkCo0O0m.99<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}