Midnightrider
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What's the given? Well, we know the information is reported to be Top Secret - reported by non-partisan auditors. And, they looked at something like 40 e-mails, found 4 of them to be classified information, two of which were classified as Top Secret, and the classification is based on what was classified on the date the e-mail was sent.
So, you have some potential causes here: Clinton asked them to strip the classification markings, Clinton did NOT ask them to strip the markings but the people sending did anyway based on to where the e-mails were being sent, the information wasn't marked as classified even though it was and the people sending knew they were classified and sent anyway, or, the information wasn't marked as such and the people who worked for Clinton didn't even know the information should be marked as classified.
Which of those sounds (a) like the most likely scenario, and (b) something that is acceptable to have happened?
I think the answer to those questions depends on who the senders were. Its possible some markings were intentionally stripped and some not.