‘Top secret’ emails come back to haunt Hillary Clinton

Kirby said that none of the emails had been marked at any level of classification at the time they were sent through Clinton’s computer server.

He said there were seven email chains being withheld from the public due to the sensitive information they contain, which includes SAP.

“I’m not going to speak to the content of these documents”, said State Department spokesman John Kirby at a briefing with reporters.

“We continue to process the next set of former Secretary Clinton’s emails for release under the FOIA process and will have more to say about it later”, a State Department official told Fox News.

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

– The department says the documents were not marked classified at the time they were sent or received byClinton.

However, it is the responsibility of individual government officials to handle classified material appropriately, including by properly marking it as classified, and the finding means that information deemed highly sensitive passed through the unsecured system that Clinton directed be established for her use.

The State Department released the latest batch of Clinton’s emails on Friday evening, and has yet to release around 7,000 pages of emails from her private server.

Clinton, in an interview with NPR last week, suggested that at least one of the emails at issue included an article from The New York Times about the administration’s classified drone programs. We feel no differently today. Kirby said the documents were not marked classified at the time they were sent. That will happen around the same time that hell freezes over and Donald Trump admits that he wears a toupee.

While a judge had ordered the department to release all of the emails by the end of January, lawyers for the department said this week that they would miss the deadline and requested another month.

And a final question for Dianne Feinstein: When communicating with Secretary Clinton, did you ever exchange classified information, and if so, how?

Freedom of Information Act lawsuits pressed by public integrity watchdog Judicial Watch have led to the release of thousands of documents, some of which have been produced under court order.

Even if Mrs Clinton did not write or forward the messages, she would still have been required to report any classification slippages she recognised in emails she received.

“This is very much like Benghazi”, Clinton said during an exclusive interview on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”.

Mrs Clinton’s use of a personal email as secretary of state has become an issue in her presidential campaign. “Democrats will have to decide whether they really want to nominate a candidate who could face severe legal repercussions in the middle of the campaign and who has so brazenly violated the public trust with her reckless disregard for our national security”. Bernie Sanders in the race for the Democratic nomination.

Officials at the State Department have said that the “upgrading” of the classification of Clinton’s emails has been routine. Ironically, some of the messages may have been more secure on Clinton’s server; the State Department’s own internal e-mail servers have been repeatedly hacked by attackers believed to be based in Russia, China, and Iran.

Her use of a private server for government work would be confounding even if she weren’t running for president.