It's common for information previously considered unclassified to be upgraded to classified before being publicly released.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.
The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
My life experience confirms that the U.S. government frequently overclassifies data. But that's a stronger argument for not dumping large volumes of government traffic on an unclassified personal server than it is a justification for retroactively challenging classification decisions.
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.
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.
Most importantly I never sent classified material on my email and I never received any that was marked classified.
Leaking of classified material is a concern.
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.