Hillary Clinton emails declared ‘top secret’

Twenty two e-mails while she was secretary of state sent through Hillary Clinton’s unsecured home server checked authorities keys, USA officials say. These documents were not marked classified at the time that they were sent.

It was unclear whether Mrs Clinton sent “top secret” messages or only received the information. The State Department did admit the emails were Top Secret, which is one if the highest levels of classifications and John Kirby, State Department’s spokesman would not even release the subjects of the emails.

The State Department on Friday refused to make public 22 emails from Clinton’s server marked “top secret”.

Kirby, however, claimed the 22 email documents had not be identified as classified information when they were sent out through Clinton’s private clintonemail.com email account through her private server located at her residence in NY.

Another question Kerry hasn’t answered is why, since he knew that Clinton used a personal email account while at the State Department, he failed to demand that she turn her emails over to the State Department until autumn 2014 after agency lawyers uncovered Clinton’s email address while reviewing documents related to the House Select Committee on Benghazi’s investigation.

Still, the timing of the State Department announcement, coming just three days before the pivotal Iowa caucuses, and the nature of that announcement seem likely to further complicate a situation that has already caused Clinton and her campaign huge amounts of agita since the existence of her private email server was revealed nearly one year ago to the day. We feel no differently today.

Clinton says she never sent or received information on her personal email account that was classified at the time. The Federal Bureau of Intelligence is trying to find out whether the material involved was mishandled.

The campaign also said the emails were never previously classified by the State Department because there was nothing sensitive in them. The State Department initially maintained that Clinton might have obtained the same information independently through non-classified channels. But the Democrat and his agency have been criticized by many for appearing to side with Clinton in a battle with the intelligence community over the classification status of many of her emails. None have been determined to be classified, he said. But the State Department said it would be unable to meet the deadline and asked for a one-month extension.

I’d like now to shift direction to a different aspect of today’s release, an entirely different aspect, which relates to emails exchanged between President Obama and then Secretary Clinton.

That action could include counseling or issuing warnings or security violations if it determines that the information was mishandled in violation of classification regulations. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio stated that the classified e-mails were proof that Clinton was unqualified to be president.

Clinton’s campaign has in the past accused the intelligence community of working with Republicans to sabotage her campaign. “But even the Democratic Party, I would find it hard to believe that they would be eager to nominate someone who is under indictment and could well face felony incarceration”. About 1,600 pages of the remaining 9,000 pages were released Friday.

Information for this article was contributed by Bradley Klapper of The Associated Press; by Ben Brody and Del Quentin Wilber of Bloomberg News; and by Rosalind S. Helderman and Carol Morello of The Washington Post.