At the same time, the campaign sought to play down the disclosure by saying the material had been retroactively classified
Relative to the above quote:
The Inference: The subject matter discussed in the Hillary emails was unclassified at the time of the email generation.
The Very Likely Facts of the Matter: The subject matter was classified, in some cases at at the TS/SCI level, prior to the generation of the Clinton emails. There was nothing "retroactive" about the documents that Hillary and Company were reading and utilizing in the emails that they were composing. Some of those emails either quoted directly or referenced that already classified information.
Don't let Hillary get away with this. Don't let her off the hook.
You can't "retroactively classify" a Hillary email until you've read it. That's what is actually being referenced here. The IG and the Intelligence Community are in the process of classifying those emails. Is that "retroactive classification"? I guess it is in some sense - but not in the sense that Hillary want's us to believe in. And it doesn't change the fact that the information in those emails was classified prior to their generation.
Well said
You have to forward the email to know what's in it.