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I am repeating the facts and the facts are I did not send nor did I receive material marked classified.

Even if information is not marked classified in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

It borders on inconceivable that Clinton didn't know that the emails she received - and, more obviously, the emails that she created, stored and sent with the server - would contain classified information.

It's common for information previously considered unclassified to be upgraded to classified before being publicly released.

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.

There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.