10-19-2016, 09:16 PM
[Long-time non-political Senior State Department official Kennedy] said he did not believe the information should be classified as “secret,” but should instead be redacted, or blacked out, on the grounds that it contained information related to a continuing investigation.
In the end, the State Department accepted the bureau’s argument and released the email with a sentence redacted as secret because it related to the F.B.I.’s Clinton email investigation.
Got that? The email was classified as "secret" because it was related to the email investigation.
And around and around we go....