ALISYN CAMEROTA: You said people are looking for clean, clear answers, and that leads to the next question about Hillary Clinton. How big of a deal do you think it is, this investigation into her e-mails?
CLARK: Well, I think it's a great political boon to the Republicans. But if you ask is there any real substance to this issue, the answer is don't think so. All of us who have been in government and especially those who have worked at high levels and seen the interplay between the various intelligence agencies, the Pentagon and the State Department, know there's a lot of, let's call it slack in the system. There are people who say things, refer to things, send e-mails, have telephone conversations, that if you went strictly by the guidelines and tracked it back afterwards, you'd say well, he shouldn't say that because that could be classified. But people say things in a way, and some of this stuff got into Hillary's e-mail system.
CAMEROTA: Yeah.
CLARK: And it wasn't classified at the time. It wasn't marked classified. And she would never have tried to use that system to handle classified data. But when you go back and look at it, there's some junior person who says, your responsibility is you tell us if this could have been classified. Of course they're going to say, oh, that could be classified.
CAMERTOA: Because you know, General --
CLARK: There's just a lot of fluff in this.
CAMEROTA: You're an interesting person to talk to about this, because so many people say General Petraeus lost his standing and was, you know, investigated and prosecuted over this very same thing. I mean, you know both sides of it, from the military and from being a supporter, as you are, of Hillary Clinton. How can you say there's nothing there when the investigation isn't done yet?
CLARK: Well, because the two circumstances are entirely different. Now, General Petraeus had a great military career. He was an outstanding director of the Central Intelligence Agency by all reports. However, what he did was put together a collection of classified documents, highly sensitive documents that were marked with classification and delivered them to a writer, someone he was involved with personally. And he did that intentionally. He then attempted to conceal that. This is totally different. From people in the normal course of the day e-mailing the secretary of state and saying, are you going to be able to make the dinner tonight, and, what about the issue with the tariffs on the gefilte fish and things like this. It's entirely different. There's just no connection to this.
