classify it now even if the
content had been classified when
it was first sent or received
and that is the process
sometimes referred to as
upclassifying.
from the group of 30,000 emails
who turned to the state
department in 2014, 110 emails
in 52 email chains have been
determined by the owning agency
to contain classified
information at the time they
were sent or received.
eight of those chains contains
information that was top-secret
at the time they were sent, 36
of those chains contain secret
information, and eight contains
confidential information at the
time.
that is below with level of
classification.
separate from those, 2000
additional emails were
upclassified to make them
confidential.
those emails have not been
classified at the time they were
sent to received.
the fbi also discovered several
thousand work-related emails