Clinton didn’t know how to access email by computer, says State official

The revelation comes just three days before the Iowa presidential nominating caucuses in which Clinton is a candidate.

The email problem remains today what it was months ago when it was first revealed that Hillary Clinton used a private email server for official government business while she was secretary of state.

“The State Department will be denying in full seven email chains, found in 22 documents representing 37 pages”, said John Kirby, US State Department spokesperson.

“This appears to be over-classification run amok”, the campaign said.

A letter by intelligence community Inspector General Charles McCullough III, dated January 14, informed senior intelligence and foreign relations committee leaders of the fact that “several dozen emails containing classified information” were proven to be “at the CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET, AND TOP SECRET/SAP levels”.

That means they will not be published online with others being released, even with redactions.

DF: And second, none of the emails sent to Secretary Clinton have the mandatory markings that are required when classified information is transmitted.

Clinton has repeatedly said she never sent classified information through her private accounts.

A separate review by the bureaus of Diplomatic Security and Intelligence and Research is being held into whether the information in the emails was classified at the time they were sent and received, he said. “Top secret” is the highest designation. “I take classified information very seriously”.

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

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.

Fallon accused the “loudest and leakiest participants” in a process of bureaucratic infighting for withholding the exchanges.

Her campaign says the emails weren’t classified when they were first sent.

It remains unknown whether those classified emails were actually written by Mrs. Clinton or were produced by other State Department officials and then forwarded by her closest assistants. It is the first indication of such an investigation.

Fox News, citing an anonymous USA government official who has viewed the emails, reported that the presence of the operational intelligence on Clinton’s personal server endangered “sources, methods, and lives”.

The State Department also said Friday that 18 emails between Clinton and President Barack Obama were being withheld from disclosure.

News coverage of most releases have largely highlighted quirky office routines and humorous requests and responses from Clinton, but Friday’s announcement triggered criticism from her GOP rivals about her decision to use a private email server, which has hung over her presidential campaign from its start.

Clinton argued Sunday that the emails should be publicly released, chalking the controversy up to an “interagency dispute” over secrecy standards.

“After eleven hours of testimony, answering every single question in public, which I had requested for many months, I think it’s pretty clear they’re grasping at straws and this will turn out the same way”, she said.