The people at the bottom  ...

"On the theory people are putting forward for making this criminal, every single one of those people [who sent a classified message on an unclassified system] is equally guilty, probably more guilty" than Clinton, the ex-prosecutor said. "People three or four levels down, closer to the information, presumably had greater reason to know if it contained classified information ... It would make no sense to aim your fire at the person at the end of the chain, instead of at the beginning of the chain."

I do not believe sent those e mails. They did not dare  e mail Madame Sec, only her inner circle had access to her . So those people are already gone from the State Department, and the State Department only recently, 1, 2 years ago, actually got all those e mails from Madame Secretary off of her server.

The fact that they were stored offsite is also very problematic.

Herridge noted that other emails from the server contain information from foreign government sources that is "born classified."

Clinton has maintained she never sent or received any emails on the server that were "marked classified." She has said the emails were later deemed to contain classified information.

Herridge noted that federal rules stipulate that classified material is based on "the content, not its markings.

But the details in those "Classified" stamps -- which include a string of dates, letters and numbers describing the nature of the classification -- appear to undermine this account, a Reuters examination of the emails and the relevant regulations has found.

The new stamps indicate that some of Clinton's emails from her time as the nation's most senior diplomat are filled with a type of information the U.S. government and the department's own regulations automatically deems classified from the get-go -- regardless of whether it is already marked that way or not.

In the small fraction of emails made public so far, Reuters has found at least 30 email threads from 2009, representing scores of individual emails, that include what the State Department's own "Classified" stamps now identify as so-called 'foreign government information.' The U.S. government defines this as any information, written or spoken, provided in confidence to U.S. officials by their foreign counterparts.

"What is it with the Hillary cult? As a lifelong Democrat who will be enthusiastically voting for Bernie Sanders in next week's Pennsylvania primary, I have trouble understanding the fuzzy rosy filter through which Hillary fans see their champion. So much must be overlooked or discounted--from Hillary's compulsive money-lust and her brazen indifference to normal rules to her conspiratorial use of shadowy surrogates and her sociopathic shape-shifting in policy positions for momentary expedience.

"Hillary's breathtaking lack of concrete achievements or even minimal initiatives over her long public career doesn't faze her admirers a whit. They have a religious conviction of her essential goodness and blame her blank track record on diabolical sexist obstructionists. When at last week's debate Hillary crassly blamed President Obama for the disastrous Libyan incursion that she had pushed him into, her acolytes hardly noticed. They don't give a damn about international affairs--all that matters is transgender bathrooms and instant access to abortion.

"I'm starting to wonder, given the increasing dysfunction of our democratic institutions, if the Hillary cult isn't perhaps registering an atavistic longing for monarchy. Or perhaps it's just a neo-pagan reversion to idolatry, as can be felt in the Little Italy street festival scene of The Godfather, Part II, where devout pedestrians pin money to the statue of San Rocco as it is carried by in procession."

Oy veh. Where does one even begin? Well, since that one happens to be me, I'll leave it to Esquire's inimitable Charles Pierce to analyze the sum total of our dear Prof. Paglia's component parts:

"Now that, as regards the presidential nominating process, it's all over but the endless recriminations, the country's pundits have a chance to kick back and let their freak flags fly high and proudly. And nobody's flag is freakier than the one belonging to Camille Paglia, who intermittently gets one of the security guards at Salon HQ drunk, lifts the keys, and gets to a computer terminal before the rest of the security staff wises up. The results are generally spectacular. This week was no exception."

While he's on a roll, he also takes a pretty good swipe at the GOP establishment's resident Keeper of Reagan's Eternal Flame, Peggy Noonan:

"I thought this might be the worst piece of political analysis I would read this week. But I had not reckoned with the cartoon canaries that flit in and out of the ears of Our Lady Of The Magic Dolphins. The canaries were unusually active this week. Why are the canaries screaming, Clarice? They are screaming because The Moment has arrived. What Moment, you might ask. The Moment when Peggy Noonan realizes she has drifted off into the land of fog and mist, never to return? The Moment when Peggy discovers that The Foot of Reagan has been buried forever beneath the sod of Simi Valley? The Moment when the paramedics break down the door? No, as it turns out, it's The Moment when you realize that you've been fronting for madmen your entire public life."