Hillary Clinton’s latest excuse for keeping top secret information on her unsecured private server will not fly with the intelligence community NBC’s Pete Williams said on Wednesday.
"The intelligence community's position is, ‘Well, that doesn't matter.’ Information is classified; doesn't matter what can it comes in," Williams said. "It's the contents that matter and information is classified if it comes from a classified source and they’re saying that shouldn't have been in her system."
Clinton assured Americans in March that there was no sensitive information on the private email server she used instead of the State Department email account and servers she should have been using.
"I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material," Clinton said during her press conference at the United Nations. "So I'm certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material."
After the Wall Street Journal reported that there was, in fact, classified information shared on Clinton’s server, the campaign altered its message.
"She did not send nor receive any emails that were marked classified at the time," spokesman Nick Merrill said last week.
With those revelations, and the fact Russia delivered the "worst ever" State Department hack, two independent Inspector Generals recommended the FBI conduct an investigation into Clinton’s server. The Justice Department took the server from Clinton on Tuesday.