Hillary Clinton hands over private server amid emails probe

Explaining why the classified information might have ended up on Clinton’s account, the State Department said in a statement that “department employees circulated these e-mails on unclassified systems in 2009 and 2011 and ultimately some were forwarded to Secretary Clinton”.

Former Secretary of State Clinton, a Democrat running for president, has faced criticism over her use of a private email address and home server for official business.

Spokesmen for Mrs Clinton did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Clinton has repeatedly insisted that her private email server was secure and that no classified information was compromised in the process, though investigators have said some of the emails “should be retroactively classified.”

Meanwhile, State Department spokesman John Kirby said the Intelligence Community has recommended that portions of two of the four emails identified by the Intelligence Community’s Inspector General should be upgraded to the Top Secret level.

Revelations that dozens of Clinton’s emails now include classified information triggered fear among national security experts that the federal government’s secrets may have been exposed or even hacked.

Kendall gave the thumb drives, containing copies of roughly 30,000 emails, to the FBI after the agency determined he could not remain in possession of the classified information contained in some of the emails, according to a U.S. official briefed on the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly. Bobby Jindal went a step further, using private email to communicate with his immediate staff but refusing to release his work-related emails.

As NPR has reported, Clinton’s latest email dump – some 1300 messages – happened at the end of July, but many of those emails were heavily redacted.

“Some emails that weren’t secret at the time she sent or received them might be secret now”, Palmieri wrote.

And Terry Shumaker, a longtime supporter in New Hampshire, said the issue didn’t come up during Clinton’s campaigning in the state this week.

However, her staff have since acknowledged without explanation that some work emails are missing.

Despite Clinton’s repeated assurances that no one needs to see her private server, her campaign now believes the Federal Bureau of Investigation should see it to prove that there is no longer any sensitive government material on non-government servers.

Taylor stated that “OPSEC knows that protecting classified and other sensitive information from unauthorized disclosure and hostile hacking is absolutely critical to our national security”.

There are also concerns about how secure the emails were, given some were understood to contain highly classified information. She turned over the other half to the State Department last December. She had previously refused to turn over the server to a House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The government forbids the sending of classified information outside unsecured networks because it could harm national security if intercepted. Now that’s it’s been learned some of her emails have been called into legal question, Congressman Gowdy feels vindicated.

Also Tuesday, Clinton gave to the Justice Department thumb drives containing copies of emails sent to and from her personal email addresses via that server. So far, the State Department has published 3,600 of 30,000 of her emails, many of them heavily redacted.

The State Department has begun to release Clinton’s emails in response to a public records lawsuit.

Setting up her own email server added another layer to help Clinton keep her correspondence away from potential prying eyes. “They were not marked as classified”.

A majority of American voters think Hillary Clinton’s emails should be subject to a criminal investigation, a Monmouth University poll out Wednesday has found.