Hillary Clinton Email...

[janzman]

....can someone tell me who determines which of these emails is 'top secret' and which are not. If it's a lackey who determines them, then said lackey has read a 'top secret' email and so it's not 'top secret' anymore, is it??

[jno]

she quite likely does it herself. She presumably decided which ones to put on her own server.

[ichkeria]

Only someone with the relevant clearance should be able to slap a classification on something, whether a 'lackey' or a president

[joggerjayne]

That's an interesting point, janz

An email can't be read by someone who has lower security clearance than the email requires.

So, logically, ALL emails would have to be checked by someone with maximum clearance, before deciding how far down the line they can trickle.

[cassa333]

Considering the pentagon and by association the US government, has been hacked so many times by so different people and organisations her personal server was just probably as secure as her official one.

For me it is not so much she had work emails on her personal account but firstly what she did with them and secondly who else had access to them. Otherwise no new here.

[Old_Geezer]

Someone has to write a document, and can't not read it as they do, so they, in discussion with their boss, are going to classify it, surely ? Or the individual who commissioned the writing of the document. No doubt others up the line of command could instruct a reclassification if they saw fit.

[youngmafbog]

// her personal server was just probably as secure as her official one. // I'd like to say yes probably so she could hide all her wrongdoings, but I doubt it is more secure by a long chalk. Just because a few Government servers get hacked doesnt necessarily mean their infrastructure is open or that the hackers get that far. We have no idea which zones have been penetrated and never will but I doubt it is the most secure Trusted ones that are probably 6 firewalls down.