I implore everyone not to fixate on the security aspect of the emails, whether it is classified or not is a red herring. The key here is whether it is part of the public record official business (it is) and did she deliberately try to get around the awareness she had these emails (she did) and did she try to destroy them (she did).
The Federal statutes specifically address these things. We should not play their game about whether they were classified or not, because we know where that shell game will go.
We need to concentrate on two questions:
1.) Was she corresponding with people in or out of government on government business on her private, unsecured server? Yes or No?
2.) Did she attempt to destroy those communications? Yes or No?
She is going to attempt to escape the horns of this dilemma by maintaining the destroyed communications were either not classified, or not presented to her as classified, and therefore squeeze between the horns. We should not let her.
Yep. She doesn’t seem to understand the law. Content is what determines if something is classified or not, not a mark on the document.