After they became aware of the investigation, the FBI and State Dept, it came out earlier today, had colluded to down-classify emails which, if unmodified, would have made Illery culpable.
So some of the instances of “upwards” classification [sic] were probably instances in which those emails were simply RETURNED to their original classification states.
I don’t have a link for that story, but it is a very important one from today.
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