“Hillary Clinton wrote 104 emails that she sent using her private server while secretary of state that the government has since said contain classified information, according to a new Washington Post analysis of Clinton’s publicly released correspondence.”
“In roughly three-quarters of those cases, officials have determined that material Clinton herself wrote in the body of email messages is classified. Clinton sometimes initiated the conversations but more often replied to aides or other officials with brief reactions to ongoing discussions.”
Washington Post, March 5, 2016
“Clinton, as the head of the State Department, has the authority to classify information. The power is spelled out in President Barack Obama’s executive order on national security information.”
Juan Williams: Clinton was 'the decider' on classified info at State
“But government rules require senders of classified information to properly mark it. And the inspector general for the intelligence community has said that some of Clinton’s correspondence contained classified material when it was sent — even if it was not labeled.”
Washington Post, March 5, 2016
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that an email composed by Clinton, which contained classified information, wasn’t classified until Clinton classified it. If she used her authority to classify the information and then sent the email, she’d be accused of sending classified email on a private server. But if she didn’t classify it, she could say that it wasn’t classified at the time that she sent it on a private email server.
“Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.”
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.” With apologies to Joseph Heller, author, Catch-22