Declassify dates cast doubt on State Department defense

Published August 21, 2015 8:36pm ET



Declassification dates on dozens of Hillary Clinton’s private emails are tied to the date the original emails were sent, raising questions about the State Department’s assertion that any classifications it has made have been done retroactively.

Government documents are typically slated to be declassified 10 years after their initial classification, but more than 30 emails already published in part by the State Department are set to be declassified 10 years from the time they were written, not from the time they were supposedly designated as classified for the first time.

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