05-25-2016, 06:27 AM
The Secretary of State will not only get -- but generate classified data. It is probably wisest for the SoS to transmit it quickly on a secure line to its proper destination and destroy the potentially-classified data promptly so that it can't be stolen. Holding onto it would present even greater risks.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.