Another Friday night Hillary Email Dump – minus the 22 Top Secret ones

The State Department has previously released emails that have been redacted because they were deemed to contain material that should not be released to the public, but the 22 highly classified emails are the first ever to be entirely blocked.

Clinton has defended the presence of classified information in her emails – which were contained on her private email server – by claiming that the records were not “marked” classified when she sent or received them.

The revelation about the top secret emails comes three days before Clinton – the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination – goes to battle in the Iowa caucus, the first time the public will cast ballots on the long road to Election Day in November.

The Clinton campaign demanded Friday that the emails be released in full.

“We firmly oppose the complete blocking of the release of these emails”, Clinton campaign spokesperson Brian Fallon said.

We have chose to make this upgraded. Independent experts say it’s unlikely Clinton will be charged with wrongdoing, based on details that have surfaced so far and the lack of indications she meant to break laws. On Friday, a Clinton spokesman did his best to brush off the news by suggesting the fault lies with the government’s system of classifying information.

The State Department has already released about 1,300 emails that contained classified material, but the vast majority were labeled by State Department reviewers as “confidential”, the least sensitive category of classification.

Rival Democrat Bernie Sanders, however, called for the legal process reviewing the emails to “not be politicized”.

The FBI has also been looking into whether classified material was mishandled during Clinton’s tenure at the State Department from 2009 to 2013.

Clinton’s campaign has been furiously spinning the news about the personal, unsecured email account that she used during her tenure as secretary of State.

The State Department released another set of her emails Friday night in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

Clinton has repeatedly said that she did not send or receive any emails marked as classified at that time.

Clinton’s campaign promptly condemned the State Department’s decision, calling the move “over-classification run amok”.

But the potential political costs are probably of more immediate concern for the wife of former U.S. president Bill Clinton.

Asked about the controversy after the State Department confirmed seven Clinton email streams would not be made public due to their contents, Kerry said that was not a matter for his office.

The email affair came up in Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate when New Jersey Governor Chris Christie accused Mrs Clinton of putting “American intelligence officers at risk”. “It’s certainly possible that for any number of reasons, traffic can be sent that’s not marked appropriately for its classification”, Kirby said.