Confirmed: Emails sent by Hillary Clinton contained top secret information

In some cases, those e-mails were related to “special access programs”-the highest level of classification for government secrets, reserved for protected intelligence and other information kept closely protected because of its sensitivity”. That means they won’t be published online with the rest of the documents, even with blacked-out boxes.

Clinton’s campaign is demanding the release of the emails, saying there’s nothing secret about them.

In the build-up to Friday’s release, several leaks to United States media suggested that highly secret information had been found on Mrs Clinton’s private server, which she used while in office instead of an official government account. Fridays will be the first at top secret level. A spokesman, Brian Fallon, said that all of the emails should be released.

Mr. Fallon also said in the statement that the emails were probably originated on the State Department’s unclassified system before Mrs. Clinton received them and that they have been on this system for years.

Hillary’s campaign argues that none of the emails were classified when she sent them, and that this is over-classification run amok.

News on Friday that the State Department designated 22 of the emails Hillary Clinton sent or received on her private server as “top secret” gave Republicans fresh reasons to attack her as they compete for their party’s nomination.

Spokesman John Kirby said Friday the material includes seven email chains covering 37 pages of messages.

The State Department has already released about 1,300 emails that contained classified material, but the vast majority labeled by State Department reviewers as “confidential”, the least sensitive category of classification.

As a look at GMA’s report demonstrates, that’s a lot like Kylo Ren observing that “this family reunion couldn’t come at a worse time for Han Solo”.

Clinton’s chief Democratic rival, Sen. Clinton still holds a strong advantage in national polls. Clinton first called the decision a matter of convenience, then a mistake. But the State Department said it would be unable to meet the deadline and asked for a one-month extension. “Of course, she’s never going to be president”.

“State Department staff have been working extremely hard to process these emails and we are committed to getting them out”, State Department Mark Toner said last week. This entire story is just a Lazy Susan of rotating accusations and innuendos that amount to fifteen cents, not the dollar everyone’s been trying to make out of them.

The e-mail issue has dogged Clinton throughout the race with particular heat coming from her prospective Republican challengers. “Anyone with the capacity to read and an understanding of American national security, an 8th-grade reading level or above, would understand that the release of this information or the potential breach of a non-secure system presented risk to American national security”. Such operations are widely discussed publicly, including by top U.S. officials, and state department officials debated Mr McCullough’s claim. The other concerned North Korean nuclear weapons programs, according to officials. Kirby said the documents were not marked classified at the time they were sent.

Clinton forwarded the email to an aide, instructing her to “Pls print” the document.

Despite Clinton’s best efforts to downplay and dismiss it, the questions surrounding her email server are growing not shrinking.