If this is true, then shouldn't each classified email on Hillary's server have some chain which leads back to the original sender, and that person broke the law? A lot of variables there.. Was the email and/or file sent as a whole, or were excerpts extracted from the original and incorporated into the unclassified message.
Reportedly, there were classified paragraphs (each paragraph has to be marked with it's classification eg: (C), (S), (TS w/caveat).. FOUO, SBU.. or (U) for unclassified.. etc) incorporated into those emails on Hillary's server..
I have the sense that some of these paragraphs were lifted from classified messages and pasted into the unclassified emails.
There are also issues related to information that the sender, or recipient, should have automatically known were classified by their very nature ( private conversations with foreign leaders.. etc)
So the question is whether these emails were sent to Hillary, or did one of her staffers (or herself?) actually take a classified message and strip paragraphs to be pasted into her unclassified emails.
Either way.. it requires someone accessing a classified network, downloading the pertinent information, and then uploading it onto an unclassified network somewhere..
I'm sure the intel folks are attempting to track down the leaks.. Sidney Blumenthal reportedly sent TS/SI (sigint) emails to Hillary, which means someone delivered them to him..
But obviously the first person to initiate the email chain with classified infomation would be the first individual to investigate...
Btw, just some technical trivia.. When someone uploads classified information onto a unclassified system, they have automatically upgraded the classification level of that computer to the level of the information that was uploaded.
And here's a little tidbit about what is coming in the future from Wiener's laptop investigation..
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