More of Hillary’s Emails Released in Late-Night Document Dump

A veterans advocacy group that has sued the State Department over its failure to turn over Hillary Clinton’s emails is asking Attorney General Loretta Lynch to take action against the former secretary of state for ordering one of her top advisers to strip classification markers off of a set of talking points and send them through unencrypted channels.

Brian Fallon, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, said, “The Department had a preexisting process in place to handle the tens of thousands of requests it received annually, and that established process was followed by the Secretary and her staff throughout her tenure”.

Clinton has always maintained she never used the private server, unknown to anyone outside of a small circle in the Obama administration, to send or receive State Department e-mails marked “Classified” or higher.

“While the volume of State Freedom of Information Act requests has tripled since 2008, our resources to respond have not kept pace”, State Department John Kirby said in a statement to ABC News. He said the fact it was originally to be sent on a secure fax did not mean it was classified.

Hillary Clinton – embroiled in controversy over her use of private email for official purposes – expressed surprise that a State Department staffer was using a personal email account to discuss work-related business, according to a newly released document.

The report also indicates that dozens of senior government officials would send Clinton business emails to her private account, Newsweek reports.

The report went beyond Clinton, who served as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

Clinton is the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. Was her instruction actually carried out?

The findings came in an inspector general report made public Thursday that blasted the agency for its sloppy handling of FOIA requests made to the secretary of state’s office, from the time of Madeleine Albright to John Kerry.

In response to a public records lawsuit, the State Department is releasing Clinton’s emails at the end of each month after partially or entirely redacting any containing sensitive USA or foreign government information.

Nonpaper is a term that refers to an informal document without official markings like letterhead or logos and that is not saved for records.

Late Thursday, Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., said there is increasing evidence that “an enormous amount of information” on Clinton’s private server is classified.

On Friday, the State Department faced a barrage of questions about the propriety of that order.

But the State Department failed to meet a court-imposed deadline on the number of Clinton’s emails to be released in December so it released another batch this week.

To keep on pace, the State Department says it will comply with all the recommendations for improvement and has already hired a “transparency coordinator”, which the report noted as a positive step. “Judicial Watch plans to share this report with several federal courts considering our requests for discovery about the Clinton email issue”.