Kerry refuses to be drawn on Clinton email scandal

None of Clinton’s emails was marked as classified during her tenure, State Department officials say, but intelligence officials say some material was clearly classified at the time.

“The seven emails, or a few emails at any rate, are being withheld at the request of the intelligence community itself”, he told reporters.

Mr Kirby said the state department was focused, as part of a Freedom of Information Act review of Mrs Clinton’s emails, on “whether they need to be classified today”.

As for Hillary Clinton’s opinion, she insists on never sending or receiving classified information on her personal email account during her term.

“We firmly oppose the complete blocking of the release of these emails”.

The emails have been a Clinton campaign issue since 10 months ago, when the AP discovered her exclusive use while in office of a homebrew email server in the basement of her family’s NY home.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign switched to full “damage control” mode in response to the latest release of e-mails from her private, unsecured server.

Some information has been censored in more than 1,300 emails already made public because the state department says it is classified, including the privately shared thoughts of foreign leaders and government officials.

The State Department has released thousands of these e-mails, however this can be the very first time her messages are tagged classified at any amount.

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

The highest and best use of this statement would be as evidence to support an aggravated sentence putting Clinton away for a good long time.

Judge Napolitano called today’s revelations “another blow to Hillary Clinton’s credibility and another avenue for the FBI to investigate”.

At a news conference at the United Nations last March, Clinton told the press that, “I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. This flies in the face of the fact that these emails were unmarked at the time they were sent, and have been called “innocuous” by certain intelligence officials”. That distinction is crucial because Clinton has maintained that none of the classified emails found on her server were classified when created.

The State Department also said Friday that 18 emails between Clinton and President Barack Obama were being withheld from disclosure. But it is the responsibility of individual government officials to handle classified material appropriately, including by properly marking it as classified, according to experts.

Calling for the release of the allegedly top secret emails is a smart gambit by the Clinton folks since it makes them look as if they have nothing to hide while being protected by the near-certainty that the State Department won’t simply change its mind on the release because the Clinton team asked them to.

The suits, which prompted the formation of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Benghazi Committee, were initiated to get a clearer picture of Clinton’s actions during the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans, including the ambassador, were killed. Past classification questions, he said, “are being, and will be, handled separately by the State Department”. He said, regardless, the information was deemed too sensitive Friday for release. Polls show Clinton and Vermont Sen.

The department and intelligence officials have been arguing about the emails, which are being made public under a federal court order, for at least five months.