To give an example of what I was suggesting, another type of process that works the same way is SMTP antivirus. You may have seen messages that get stamped on the way in that they’ve been scanned with an AV program. The original message doesn’t contain that stamp, it’s added as part of the intake process when the mail is received. A sophisticated programmer could write custom code that acted in a similar way to strip classification markings.
I do not believe Bryan Pagliano was capable of that. From what I have gleaned he was more of a mid-level admin who could do things like install and configure a server, and probably also write simple agents to process messages at the application level, after messages were already delivered with classification markings. The risk there is that such an agent is going to be less reliable and there is a chance that a backup process could archive a message that was received just before the backup but also before the client agent had a chance to run. That I’d believe he was capable of; gateway programming would be something beyond his skillset.
It’s been reported that the classified material was retrieved by someone on Hillary’s staff, summarized, then sent to Hillary from a non-secure computer in the summarized form - not the original form which would have had a classified “stamp”.
AND, I think all this 'was marked', 'was not marked' is a distraction. It's like me walking out of a store with a TV and saying 'Well! There was no price tag on it, I didn't know I had to purchase it'
It's a purposeful distraction. She broke the law whether or not there were markings. This is typical Clinton 'muddy the water with an argument about non-pertinent details.'
For example, If Merkel tells Hillary on the phone "we're invading Iran tomorrow" and Hillary emails that to Huma ... that information was never marked classified. The whole thing is complete BS -> give the people something to argue about that has nothing to do with anything.
And ... thanks for answering :-)