Clinton To Give Private Email Server To DOJ

After repeated denials from Clinton that she did not handle classified information through her private email accounts, it was learned Tuesday that two emails classified as “Top Secret” have been identified, and that Clinton’s attorneys have agreed to turn over to the FBI the private server she used, along with a thumb drive containing thousands of e-mails.

The decision to give up the server came after the FBI said Mr. Kendall was not permitted to possess classified information contained in some of the e-mails, said a US official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) chairman of the Judiciary Committee, revealed Tuesday night that Charles McCullough, the inspector general for U.S. intelligence agencies, had reported that two of the emails not only were classified but were in fact categorized as “Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information”-one of the strictest security classifications”.

“Department employees circulated these emails on unclassified systems in 2009 and 2011 and ultimately some were forwarded to Secretary Clinton”.

Recent polls suggest the ongoing scandal over Clinton’s use of a private email server while Secretary of State has taken a toll on whether voters see her as honest and trustworthy.

Congressional, intelligence and media sources are pursuing whether classified information was improperly sent via and stored on the home-brew email server that Clinton set up and ran from her house in suburban New York City.

The Intelligence Community’s inspector general said from the beginning that it made a “counterintelligence referral” – not a “criminal referral” – to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“It was just a few weeks ago when the Democratic front-runner for President of the United States blatantly lied to the American people declaring that she was “confident” that she ‘never sent nor received any information that was classified, ‘” Texas Congressman Rep. Blake Farenthold said in a statement. In March, she said the server contained “personal communications from my husband and me”. Officials have said that Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, is not a target.

Ms. Clinton has drawn criticism for using a private server and personal e-mail to conduct government business during her tenure at the helm of the State Department.

Critics have painted the private email server as a way to keep critical information out of the public record. Among Independents, the numbers are split (48 percent say it was a matter of convenience, 41 percent say Clinton may be hiding something). The State Department has quibbled with the ICIG’s determination that some emails on the hardware were “Top Secret” when they were sent.

But in June, after Clinton’s longtime confidant Sidney Blumenthal gave the House committee emails between him and the former secretary of state, the State Department realized it was missing all or part of 15 emails. The agency’s official position at this point was that the information was not classified until well after it was exchanged. 2, before Clinton’s campaign announced it would turn over her server to the Justice Department in an effort to blunt an expanding probe. So far, the State Department has published 3,600 of 30,000 of her emails, many of them heavily redacted.