In hindsight: More Clinton emails released — some classified retroactively
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In hindsight: More Clinton emails released — some classified retroactively
The U.S. State Department released over 4,000 more of the emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton kept on a private server and revealed that about 150 others have been classified retroactively. While Clinton campaigns for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, reporters and Clinton’s rivals began scouring 7,000 additional pages of messages from the emails she handed over earlier this year after she had come under fire for operating the unofficial server. But perhaps the greater danger to her was in the emails that officials said had now seen their security status upgraded to classified or above. Critics will be eager to discover if the emails shed any light on suggestions that the secretary’s government work was too entwined with that of the wealthy Clinton family foundation, set up by Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton.
The goal is, we do a thorough scrub on whether these need to be redacted before they can be released publicly.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner
Clinton has been criticized for using a private server rather than an official government domain for her emails during her time at the State Department. Government employees are instructed not to paraphrase or repeat in any form any classified material via unsecured email. Clinton sent or received a total of 62,320 emails during her term as secretary between 2009 and 2013. She provided 30,490 official emails to the State Department for release to the public record. Previously, Clinton said she was “confident” that she “never sent or received any information that was classified at the time.”
