You know I've looked all over the place on the Internet and can't find one reference to a government official being able to arbitrarily declassify something like an email or any document. Can you send me a reference because I can't find it anywhere. There is a ton of information about automatic declassification after 10 or 25 years but I couldn't find anything like what you described. And it's interesting that no one, not even Hillary herself or her defenders, have raised this defense. Seems like a no brainier to me and she and her allies would be all over the media raising this slam dunk defense. And you would think the FBI would close up shop on their investigation instead of moving closer to an indictment. Also, if she had the authority to declassify the emails then why were they heavily redacted before being released? Doesn't make sense to me.
Send me a source that grants a govt employee like the SOS the right to arbitrarily declassify something as I can't find it anywhere. Very strange if correct.