Government finds ‘top secret’ info in Clinton emails

Timing was not in Clinton’s favor, as she was scheduled to attend the Iowa Caucuses as part of her presidential campaign.

“Spokesman John Kirby said the emails were not marked classified at the time they were sent”.

In the same briefing, Kirby said that the State Department also would not be releasing seven email chains including 37 pages because these emails contain what he called “a category of top secret information”. Until now, none of the released emails were marked as classified, despite 1000 of them had lower classification levels. 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.

During the first Democratic debate past year, Sanders famously dismissed the issue by saying, “the American people are sick and exhausted of hearing about your damn emails!” That’s why there has been a great efforts made to erase the distinction between whether something was “marked” classified or not, on the logic that most everything a secretary of state says is, by definition, sensitive enough to be classified.

Suddenly Clinton’s narrative of an overly aggressive intelligence community or a broader squabble between the intelligence world and the State Department didn’t hold water.

The State Department said it had “upgraded” the classification of the emails at the request of the nation’s intelligence agencies.

Clinton’s chief Democratic rival, Sen.

Hillary should have had the discernment, wisdom and just plain common sense not to put the country’s intelligence secrets at risk by using a private server for her work-related emails.

Hillary Clinton did not talk about the escalating scandal over her emails at campaign events in Iowa Friday.

The State Department is expected to fall well short of a court-ordered mandate to release all 55,000 pages of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails by today.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Clinton should face the same consequences that any federal employee who had behaved similarly would face, including criminal prosecution.

“The new e-mail release is a disaster for Hillary Clinton”, Trump also tweeted.

The US State Department has classified as ‘top secret’ 22 of the e-mails sent through the former secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private computer server. The revelation comes after more emails from Hilary Clinton’s personal email have come to light.

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

Campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said the review process “appears to be over-classification run amok”.

“It’s clear that they’re grasping at straws”, Clinton said. We feel no differently today.

Fox News’s Catherine Herridge and Pamela Brown report that the emails in question include intelligence from “special access programs” (SAP), among the most closely guarded information in the intelligence community – the kind of information whose exposure can destroy vital intelligence collection programs and reveal the identities of intel operatives, potentially putting them in grave danger. “She has now definitively – without any question – lied to us”. The department has so far released approximately 42,000 pages of Clinton’s correspondence. The lawyers indicated that the department discovered several weeks ago that the documents still needed review and had not yet been distributed, a process that was further slowed by the recent blizzard that shut down the government for days.