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What’s considered ‘classified’ is a judgment call

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is under scrutiny over whether she sent or received classified information on unsecured email when she was secretary of state. The inspector general of the U.S. intelligence community recently alerted the Justice Department about classified information included improperly on email that went through a home server Clinton used in lieu of the official State Department email system.

The “referral” to the Justice Department laid open an ongoing difference of opinion between the State Department and the nation’s intelligence agencies over what material should be classified and what should not.