Hillary Cackles at Jake Tapper Saying the FBI Still Care About Her Email Scandal

Tapper: ‘And why wouldn’t you consider that having it on your personal account with somewhere in Colorado might be a potential risk?’

TAPPER: "I know Bernie Sanders said that, quote, 'the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails.'"
CLINTON: "(Laughter)"
TAPPER: "But there are a lot of people who are not."
CLINTON: "Well --" (Laughter) 
TAPPER: "Including FBI officials looking into whether national security was compromised because of this server. And this is something else that is very confusing to me. With all your experience, why wouldn't you anticipate that over the course of four years, handling very sensitive diplomatic negotiations, overseeing military interventions and surveillance, why wouldn't you anticipate that something classified, whether about North Korea or Iran or drones or an informant for the CIA, that it wouldn't be e- mailed to you? And why wouldn't you consider that having it on your personal account with some server in Colorado might be a potential risk?"
CLINTON: "Well, first of all, nothing -- and I will underscore, nothing that I was sent or that I sent was marked classified. We have a system in our government, in our State Department, it was there before I came in."
TAPPER: "Right."
CLINTON: "It has continued after I left where there are decisions made about what is classified information in real time. And nothing was marked classified."
TAPPER: "The inspector general of the intelligence community said some of this stuff contained classified information when it was generated whether or not it was marked classified."
CLINTON: "Well, that is just a very strong difference of opinion. The State Department does not agree with that. And it is almost an impossible standard because we had two separate systems. We had the unclassified system, so anybody on the unclassified system with the State Department would only be able to tell if something were classified if it were marked classified. We dealt with classified information on a totally different system. Nobody had access to that from an unclassified device. So, I think a lot of this is being a public display of the very common arguments that go on between different agencies in our government. This happens every time there is a Freedom of Information Act request. If something's going to be made public that was not classified at the time, maybe something has happened years later that there's a case and so now, it's sensitive information. That's what's going on here. Different agencies are weighing in saying, yes, it wasn't classified, but we think that there is something in it that now we're going to say is sensitive. At the time there was nothing marked classified. And that is the fact that hasn't changed." 
TAPPER: "Right. And you said it was allowed too."
CLINTON: "Yes, it was."
TAPPER: "Who allowed it?" 
CLINTON: "It was allowed under the rules of State Department. Again --"
TAPPER: "So nobody signed off on it?"
CLINTON: "No, no, it was allowed. You know, one of my predecessors did the same thing. Others in our government have done the same thing at very high levels, because the rules did change after I left State Department. But at the time and in prior years, the rules allowed it."
TAPPER: "But it never occurred to you when any of these e-mails coming in from Sid Blumenthal with very sensitive information --"
CLINTON: "Sid Blumenthal was not a government employee or official. It would be like you sending me something, Jake. If I thought it had some interest to it, I might forward it onto somebody. But I would not expect you to be in a position to classify anything because you were not in that classification process. Neither was he. So, he sent me stuff that he heard from people. You know, he's an old journalist and thought it was of interest. Some of it I sent on, some I didn't. I kind of made the judgment at the time. It was not in the category of anything that could be classified because it came from an outside nongovernment person passing on what somebody told somebody told him. And, look, I'm somebody who thinks the government and people who work in it should be open to getting information from different sources. I mean, you wrote a book about Afghanistan. If during the course of my being secretary of state, you had sent me an e-mail saying, look, I think the government needs to know this, and I thought, hey, that's a good point I'll send it on and six years later they say, oh, my gosh, he was reporting sensitive information. Well, you didn't know that. And I certainly didn't know that.So, I think that this is a complicated issue for even sophisticated folks to understand. And I just keep going back to we have two different systems. I dealt with classified information very carefully and seriously. I usually met with people to discuss it. It was delivered to me in hard copy so marked. And then when I traveled, I had one of those tents because we were afraid of prying eyes from certain governments that I would read classified material in. So, I'm very familiar with the importance of treating classified information as it should be with great care."
TAPPER: Can I get your e-mail address? 
CLINTON: "Sure. You want to send me something that might be interesting?"
TAPPER: "I'm just wondering for the future. I haven't had that kind of relationship with you, but if that was like a hidden offer."
CLINTON: "Yes, sure. You can give me, you know, what you hear politically. I might make use of it."
TAPPER: "Sure. Madam Secretary, thanks so much for your time. I really appreciate it."

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