More Email Trouble for Hillary Clinton

Two inspectors general have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to open a formal criminal investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of her private email account, senior government officials reportedly told The New York Times on Thursday.

The request follows an assessment in a June 29 memo by the inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence agencies that Mrs. Clinton’s private account contained “hundreds of potentially classified emails”.

A spokesman for Clinton, the front-runner for the Democrat nomination for president, declined to comment to the Times.

Some of the emails have been retroactively marked as classified or containing some sort of sensitive information, according to the State Department, although the department says this does not mean the information was classified at the time an email was sent. “So I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material”.

Since it was first revealed in March that Clinton used a private email account to conduct state business, there have been many questions about whether her actions were lawful, and whether classified government information could have compromised.

The Justice Department has not decided whether it will pursue a criminal inquiry, the Times said in its report published online late Thursday night, which cited unnamed government officials.

Clinton has repeatedly said she had no classified information among the the thousands of pages of State emails on her private server. In the 3,000 pages that were released, for example, portions of two dozen emails were redacted because they were upgraded to “classified status”.

POLITICO obtained a transcript of United States District Court Judge Richard J.