Hillary: Publish Classified Docs, Americans Will Agree They’re Not Sensitive

‘As you know, just recently, Colin Powell’s e-mails were retroactively classified for more than 10 years ago’

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Hillary Clinton called tonight for publishing the classified material located on her controversial, secret server. "Once the American people see it," she said in tonight's Fox News townhall, "they will know how absurd this is."

Transcript:

BAIER: "The State Department has redacted and declared 2101 of your work e-mails classified. 44 classified as secret, 22 classified as ton secret. 'I did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail. There is no classified material.' So can we say definitively that that statement's not accurate?" 
CLINTON: "No, you can't. Here's what happens, the State Department has a process for determining what is or isn't classified, if they determine it is, they mark it as classified." 
BAIER: "Who decides?"
CLINTON: "The State Department decides." 
BAIER: "What about you when you're typing an e-mail?" 
CLINTON: "No, the State Department decides what is. And let me go a step further here, I will reiterate, it's a fact, nothing I sent or received was marked classified. Now, what happens when you asked or when you are asked to make information public, is that it's reviewed and different agencies come in with their opinions? As you know, just recently, Colin Powell's e-mails were retroactively classified for more than 10 years ago. As he said, that was an absurdity. I cannot agree more." 
BAIER: "It contained information that should be classified at any time. It shouldn't be now oar then. It's not -- it shouldn't have been classified?" 
CLINTON: "What I'm saying is, it wasn't at the time, if you -- let's take Mary Smith who has some information in the government, and she is FOIAed, Freedom of Information Act. Give us your information, your e-mails, memos, whatever it might have been. That goes through a process, even though the agency she works in, has said none of this is classified, others start to have a chance to weigh-in. So others might say, you know, that wasn't at the time, but now with circumstances, we don't want to release it, so, therefore, we have to classify it, I've asked, and I echo Colin Powell in this, release it, and once the American people see it, they will know how absurd this is. Colin Powell and I are exactly on the same page."

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