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The US Department of State is expected to release some 4,400 pages of former secretary of state and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails amid growing controversy that she mishandled secret information on her private email account, US media reported ahead of the release.

Of the five classified emails, the one known to be connected to Benghazi was among 296 emails made public in May by the State Department.

But the tactic of deflecting continued controversy over the emails by placing the onus on State Department may strain relations with the Obama administration, which has been careful not to accuse Clinton of wrong-doing, while make clear it frowns on the practice of officials conducting business via personal email.

The regular releases of Clinton’s correspondence all but guarantee a slow drip of revelations from the emails throughout the Democratic presidential primary campaign, complicating her efforts to put the issue to rest.

That’s even though two inspectors general have said the emails did contain secrets.

The emails revealed the State Department knew Ambassador Stevens’ life was in danger 18 months before the 2102 terrorist attacks.

Get the hottest, most important news stories on the Internet – delivered FREE to your inbox as soon as they break! Clinton has said she never sent classified information from her private email server, which The Associated Press was first to identify as operating in her home in New York.

There is also growing tension between the State Department and various intelligence agencies who fear that officials have not been careful enough in deciding what to release.

The U.S. official said the intelligence community has been informed that secret information had been contained in some of Mrs. Clinton’s private emails that originated from the FBI, the DNI and the CIA as well as a spy satellite agency.

Gerlach added that “much of what is contained in the former Secretary’s emails does not relate to programs and operations over which the (intelligence inspector general) has oversight responsibilities”.

In 2,206 pages of emails, the government censored passages to protect national security at least 64 times in 37 messages, including instances when the same information was blacked-out multiple times.

“The lax storage and safeguarding of this information could have serious consequences to national security”, Johnson warned. He called on Comey to explain what steps the Federal Bureau of Investigation had taken to secure the information.

With this release, the campaign says 38 years of Clinton tax returns have been available to the press over the course of her career, dating back to 1977. “There is no classified material”. Not all of the tax returns are now online, but the official said the tax forms were made available during the Clinton’s first run at elected office. The four emails, which have not been released through the State FOIA process, did not contain classification markings and/or dissemination controls.

There is also the matter of the classified information that found its way onto her insecure email system.

Clinton’s decision not to use a State Department email account has become a political problem for her, as Republicans seize on the disclosures to paint her as untrustworthy and willing to break rules for personal gain.

On June 25, McCullough notified members of Congress that he understood that Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, possessed the more than 30,000 Clinton emails on a computer thumb drive.