Dozens of old Clinton emails newly classified

Clinton’s deep-pocketed repository reflects a heightened confidence in the Democratic front-runner’s electability, having spent the summer months dogged by controversy surrounding her use of a private email server during her time as US secretary of state under President Barack Obama.

The year-end release from the State Department totaled 5,500 pages but fell short of the court-appointed requirement to release 82 percent of the Democratic presidential candidate’s correspondence from her tenure as secretary of state by December 31.

While just about every journalist in the United States was leaving their office to perpare for New Year’s Eve parties and festivities, the State Department dumped 5500 emails on the public, thus guaranteeing that they would receive little if any notice.

The emails released so far have provided a unique window into the day-to-day doings of Clinton’s time as the nation’s top diplomat.

The latest release includes roughly 3,100 emails that date from 2009 to 2013.

“When this scandal first broke, Hillary Clinton assured the American people there was no classified material on her unsecure server, a claim which has since been debunked on a monthly basis with each court-ordered release”.

Sanders said “In the last match-up that compared Secretary Clinton and myself to Trump, I beat Trump by thirteen points and I think she beat him by seven points”. The emails have been disseminated in increments that allow the department to review the emails and redact sensitive information.

“In an October letter to her representatives, the State Department made an additional request for any records that former Secretary Clinton may have in her possession”, State Department spokesman Alec Gerlach said. A columnist suggested either she or the families is lying about what she said to them. “The information we upgraded today was not marked classified at the time the emails were sent”, the official said.

Some emails also deal with mundane details like scheduling.

Defense Department spokesman Joe Sowers said the request for the emails came from the State Department Inspector General’s Office. The emails also covered the tumultuous period before and after the September 11, 2012, Benghazi terror attacks. But he said that his office has not asked other agencies for additional emails because the entire issue has been referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.