[GreenHornet]

She was the secretary of state, for God’s sake. She knew the definition of “Top Secret” and knew what type of content met that definition. The “I didn’t know” defense wouldn’t fly for any security cleared service member, civilian employee, or contractor. It sure as hell shouldn’t fly for the Secretary of State.

Absoluetly right. Just for the sake of discussion, suppose one of her aides had removed the "Top Secret" markings from the emails before Hillary saw them. What possible reason could they have for doing that? As soon as Hillary saw the content, she should have immediately known that this information fit the criteria to be marked as "Classified", "Top Secret", etc., and demanded to know why this wasn't done.

[IC Ken]

I wonder how much Hillary was charging foreign counties for assess to her server.

[Mariner]

"What possible reason could they have for doing that? "

Easy.

The content filter at the State Dept email gateway is configured to look for classification markings in both the message AND any attachments.

That stuff had to be stripped by somebody with physical connection to BOTH networks and physically move the bits. Then, all classification markings had to be removed to get it through the Content Filter and out to Hillary's server.

It is absolutely the only way that email ended up on her server and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that it might be impossible to count the number of felonies committed on two hands.

And everyone involved knows it.