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Different systems
When you are dealing with classified and secret documents you are on a different system than the regular internet. You can't type in the urls ESPN, Google, or democratic underground. They won't come up, nor can you send emails to yahoo or gmail accounts. So those state.gov emails were not even on a classified system and that is why people were able to send stuff to their personnel emails and home computers. Meaning that whatever was sent wasn't classified anyway.