Explain this to me like I'm a second-grader

And in the very next paragraph:

"Kirby said the State Department has not yet made a determination of whether the information was classified at the time it was sent or has become more sensitive due to subsequent events. He said that, regardless, the information was deemed too sensitive Friday for release."

 

And yet, Colin Powell never seemed to have a problem.

 

Because her private server setup ensured that nothing would be classified (by anyone other than Herself) no matter what. Whether they were classified or not at the time they were sent (or received) is beside the point.

 

From NBC:

Twenty-two emails from Hillary Clinton's private email server have been marked "top secret" and won't be released, the State Department said Friday.

The emails were not marked as classified at the time they were sent."

State Department Declares Some Hillary Clinton Emails 'Top Secret'

 

Except that it was legal for her to have a private server setup, just like previous Secretaries of State.

 

What prior SoS had a private server?

 

“I had a secure State Department machine for secure material and I had a laptop that I could use for email. I would email relatives, friends, but I would also email in the department,” Powell explained on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“But it was mostly housekeeping stuff -- what’s the status of this paper, what’s going on here. So it was my own unclassified system, but I had a classified system also on my desk.”

Now, how honest he is about what was sent and received on his "unclassified" system is a matter of debate. But just having a secure system as well means he at least cared enough to think about it..

Also, let me know when you find the server in Powell's basement.

 

Colin Powell sent and received private email.

Where is the law that says it was illegal for Clinton to have a private server?

 

Nothingburger:

 

"You know, people often ask Trey Gowdy and myself, what did our investigations do?” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told Boston Herald Radio on Friday morning. Gowdy currently chairs the House Select Committee on Benghazi, while Issa conducted his own investigation in 2012 when he served as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

“Well what they did is that they opened up an opportunity for the American people to sort of smell what’s in the garbage can,” Issa said. “And I think that’s the reason that a devout socialist who wants to nationalize almost everything in America is close to and probably will beat Hillary here in New Hampshire. It’s not because they like Republicans. It’s because they don’t trust Hillary.”

Fact Check: Hillary Clinton, Those Emails And The Law

That's funny. I could have sworn they were holding those hearings because they were concerned over the deaths of 4 Americans.

 

Please tell me you read what he wrote.

"Again, all of these e-mails were marked classified ex post facto, and they were withheld at the behest of someone in the intelligence community and not at the behest of either HRC or her campaign. So, instead, we get the really great headline—Classified Information In The E-Mails!—to chew over all weekend, which may be the entire point. Right at this moment, at 5:31 EST on MSNBC, there's a very tiny live picture of HRC giving a speech while, on the full-screen, they're talking about what a political miracle He, Trump is. I dread the Sunday gobshitery with a dread that is fathomless."

 

Sharp guy.