Clinton Compares Classified E-mails to Retroactive Speeding Tickets

“I don’t, I think it should be resolved by pointing out that there were no classified materials sent or received by me. And that should answer any questions anyone has. If you’re going to be retroactively classifying materials that’s an impossible standard. You know it’d be like somebody in the Department of Transportation setting speed limits that had cameras where cars were going down a road, and pictures of license plates were being taken and let’s say the speed limit was 35. And then retroactively the police say that speed limit should’ve been 25, so let’s go back and look at anybody who drove down that road and exceeded 25, we need to follow up on that. That makes no sense in that  context, it makes no sense in this context of, you know, you had no reason to know or you were certainly given no notice; you were certainly given no notice to know that something might later be viewed as potentially classified. That’s just not the way we do business in the government.”