Clinton On ‘Top Secret’ Emails: People Are ‘Selectively Leaking’

The State Department announced Friday that it will not release 22 emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton because they contain “top secret” information, the highest level of government classification.

The revelation comes three days before Clinton competes in the Iowa presidential caucuses.

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

State Department spokesman John Kirby said the material crosses seven email chains, amounting to 37 pages worth of material. “There is absolutely no evidence that I ever sent or received any email marked classified, that has not changed”, she said, a stark and deliberate switch from her original stance that she never emailed any classified information on her private server at all.

Kirby said the emails were not marked “top secret” at the time they were sent, but that they were deemed highly classified at the request of intelligence officials. “We firmly oppose the complete blocking of the release of these emails, ” Clinton campaign spokesman Brain Fallon said. “They would be fired and they would be prosecuted”, said Senator Marco Rubio.

The agency’s security and intelligence operations are investigating whether the e-Mails were classified when the landed on Mrs. Clinton’s server.

Hillary Clinton’s defense of her seemingly criminal mishandling of the nation’s secrets now looks to be pretty much, I live in a parallel universe. “Since first providing her emails to the State Department more than one year ago, Hillary Clinton has urged that they be made available to the public”.

On Friday, the State Department said emails had been removed from the latest batch to be released because they may contain top secret information – a decision that infuriated Clinton’s camp, which wants the mails to be released to prove her claim that they were anodyne.

Clinton was quick to follow the report by denying that she did anything wrong.

Since the scandal broke last March, Clinton has maintained that nothing she sent contained classified material.

“Yes we were hoping for that if possible so she can check her email in her office”, Abedin, who now serves as vice chairwoman of Clinton’s presidential campaign, replied.

He indicated that the emails in question were exchanged between State Department officials using their official accounts before they were shared with Clinton on her private server.

On that night, while the attack was still in progress, Clinton released a statement suggesting that “inflammatory material posted on the Internet” might have some role in the attack. She repeated her call for the emails’ release. “What she did is because she believes she’s above the law”. “Of course, she’s never going to be president”.

Clinton initially said the private server was a matter of convenience, but later conceded it was a mistake. It says classified information is marked or unmarked classified and that all of your training to treat all of that sensitively and should know the difference.