U.S. Government finds ‘top secret’ info in Clinton emails

For the first time, the US State Department accepted that officials of the intelligence department were in fact right in stating that 22 of the official emails sent through Clinton’s private server did contain sensitive secrets of the government.

Kirby indicated that the classification decision was made by the State Department but said officials there made the determination at the request of the intelligence community.

Clinton repeated her call to release even the information that the State Department said is too sensitive to release.

The e-mail scandal that has been plaguing Mrs Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign took a potentially damaging turn when the State Department declared 22 e-mail messages that passed through her private computer server “top secret”. “We have worked closely with our inter-agency partners on this matter, and this dialogue with the inter-agency is exactly how the process is supposed to work”, he said.

The department published its latest batch of emails from her time as U.S. secretary of state.

Following a court-ordered schedule, the State Department has already released most of the roughly 30,000 work emails Clinton returned to the department.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets voters after a campaign event at Keokuk Middle School in Keokuk, Iowa, USA, January 28, 2016. Her campaign spokesman objected to the newly classified material as “over-classification run amok”.

The decision to withhold the documents in full, and not provide even a partial release with redactions, further undercuts claims by the State Department and the Clinton campaign that none of the intelligence in the emails was classified when it hit Clinton’s personal server. “We feel no differently today”, said Brian Fallon, secretary of Hillary for America National Press. “Everyone I communicated with in government was aware of it. And nothing I ever sent or received was marked classified at the time”.

The government forbids the handling of classified information outside secure government-controlled channels. While her Republican presidency rivals are demanding Clinton’s prosecution. The emails were sent out when Clinton was the secretary of the state from 2009 to 2013.

“We were very specific about that and you – when you receive information, of course, there has to be some markings, some indication that someone down the chain had thought that this was classified and that was not the case”.

How does Clinton know whether or not she generated email chains if she does not know which emails she’s referring to? With the inspector general’s letter to lawmakers pointing out her violation of federal laws regarding the unauthorized disclosure of state secrets, Clinton – who was at one time the nominee-apparent – may actually face charges.

“The only reason to hold Secretary Clinton responsible for emails that didn’t originate with her is for political points, and that’s what we’ve seen over the past several months”.

– It remains unclear if the information could have come from publicly available sources despite now being classified as “top secret”.

What do you say on behalf of Hillary Clinton under the circumstances?

Republican candidate Ted Cruz said, “Whether Hillary gets indicted depends on whether the Obama White House wants to indict her”. “I’m not in a position today to say definitively one way or the other”. It has not completed reviewing those documents but has so far retroactively classified more than 1,200 of them.