Hillary Clinton Emails Deemed ‘Top Secret’ By Government

State Department spokesman John Kirby said the material crosses seven email chains, amounting to 37 pages’ worth of material. “We have worked closely with our inter-agency partners on this matter, and this dialogue with the inter-agency is exactly how the process is supposed to work”, he said.

The State Department has recently released another batch of 5,500 pages of Clinton’s personal emails from her time as secretary of state, raising the total pages released so far to over 40,000.

Even though the information in the e-mails wasn’t marked classified when it was sent, Kirby said the question of whether it should have been “is being handled separately by the state department”.

Officials say that while the e-mails may not have been marked as classified when they were sent, it is very possible that present circumstances dictate their updated status. The announcement came three days before the Iowa caucuses, when the first votes are cast for the presidential nominations.

The State Department also said it would agree with a request from the White House that Clinton’s emails with President Barack Obama, 18 in all, be withheld from public release for several years under the Presidential Records Act. “We adamantly oppose the complete blocking of the release of these e-mails”.

The State Department on Friday refused to make public 22 emails from Clinton’s server marked “top secret”. We feel no differently today.

Yes, it has been revealed that that 22 emails sent from Clinton’s private server contained highly classified information.

Appearing on ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos, Hillary Clinton on Sunday dismissed the investigation into her use of a private email server as “a continuation of the story that has been playing out for months”.

“I’m going to leave that to others who are quite experienced in the ways of Washington to comment on”, she said.

“This appears to be overclassification run amok”, Fallon said.

The State Department is trying to finish its review and public release of thousands of Clinton emails, as the Democratic presidential primary contests get underway in early February. Such operations are widely discussed in the public sphere, including by top USA officials, and the State Department immediately argued with McCullough’s claim.

Thus far, it remains unclear if and how much the revelation would hurt her chances in Iowa.

Clinton and the State Department also claimed that the vast majority of her emails were preserved properly for archiving because she corresponded mainly with government accounts.

Chris Christie used the new email scrutiny to attack Clinton’s credibility in Iowa, days ahead of the caucus.

Congressional Republicans have criticized and investigated Clinton for her use of a private email server for her work as a secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. But whether she really wants the government to release the withheld e-mails is another question entirely.

Clinton’s campaign released a statement on Friday calling for a release of all the emails.

The intelligence community has deemed some of Clinton’s emails “too damaging” to national security to release under any circumstances, a US government official close to the ongoing review told Fox News.

The Associated Press reported in August that one focused on a forwarded news article about the CIA’s classified US drone program.

While that may pass for a logic in the recesses of the Clintonian mind, the facts – again – are against her. In the wake of WikiLeaks publishing a trove of State Department cables in 2010, many of which were classified, the Office of Management and Budget notified federal employees that they should neither access nor share any of the information WikiLeaks had published.