Republicans and members of the political press had a conniption this week when an inspector general flagged a handful (4) of Hillary Clinton's emails for containing classified information.
As Hillary Clinton’s press secretary points out, however, if Clinton is at fault for housing allegedly classified information on an unclassified home system, it would mean Trey Gowdy's Benghazi Committee is also at fault.
“Just as an aside, for the I.G. to now declare the material as classified, since it was provided by State to the House Benghazi committee earlier this year in unredacted form, presumably that means that members of the House Benghazi committee may have unwittingly handled classified material on unclassified systems within the House of Representatives,” Mr. Fallon said.
“Now, I don’t think that anybody here at the Clinton campaign is going to say that members of, say, Chairman Gowdy’s staff should have their computers confiscated for having possibly trafficked in classified material,” he said. “I don’t think we would say that. But that is, fundamentally, the same logic behind the I.G.’s referral to the State Department with respect to Mrs. Clinton’s server, since she was at worst a passive recipient of unwitting information that subsequently became deemed as classified. Let’s raise that as an aside.”
Bullshit Committee Republicans have responded by claiming all of their systems are secure but, according to Democrats who also sit on the committee, none of the material they were provided with was marked as classified.
Classified material was removed from unclassified House systems only after the inspector general flagged the emails months after the fact.