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Hillary Clinton herself told the FBI in an interview in July that she did not fully understand how the State Department’s classification system works or that a “C” marked on an email stood for “Confidential.”
But on Tuesday, she appeared to lecture the American public, saying in an interview with ABC News’ David Muir that the government’s system for marking classified information is “too arcane for most people.”
That portion of Clinton’s remarks did not air in the national version of the ABC News interview. But they were included in the raw version of the interview published on the news outlet’s website.
Clinton also said in the interview, in which she was joined by her running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, that she “respectfully disagree[s]” with FBI director James Comey’s assessment that her use of a private email system as secretary of state was “extremely careless.”
Notes from Clinton’s July 2 FBI interview also showed that she knew little about how the government denotes classified information.
One embarrassing passage from the report shows that Clinton did not know that a “C” marked on an email she received stood for “Confidential.” She told FBI investigators she thought it was showing that the paragraph was in alphabetical order. There was no “A” or “B” on the email, however.