State Dept. withholds 22 ‘top secret’ Clinton emails

“In consultation with the intelligence community, we are making this upgrade and we believe it’s the prudent, responsible thing to do.”, State Department spokesman John Kirby said.

A separate review by the bureaus of Diplomatic Security and Intelligence and Research is being held into whether the information in the emails was classified at the time they were sent and received, he said.

“We now know Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account during her tenure at the State Department wasn’t just negligent, it was completely unsafe”, Cotton said. “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.

One senior intelligence official said that the information contained in Hillary Clinton’s emails is a “death sentence” for the CIA officers.

She said the emails were not classified as secret at the time and should all now be released, adding: “Let the public see them”.

The State Department’s conclusion came as it has worked to process 55,000 pages of Clinton’s correspondence for public release, including about 1,000 pages that were released Friday evening.

“We firmly oppose the complete blocking of the release of these emails”, said Hillary Clinton’s campaign spokesman, Biran Fallon. As we’ve explained previously, tonight’s release will not meet the court’s due date for producing all of the remaining emails, but we are still striving to produce as many documents as possible today.

The federal government is censoring 37 pages of emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server, saying they contain information considered “top secret”. “These documents were not marked classified at the time they were sent”. But the State Department had declined to concur with the assessment, allowing Clinton and her supporters to describe some concern about the presence of government secrets in her emails to disputes between agencies.

She has struggled in surveys measuring her perceived trustworthiness and an active government investigation, especially one buoyed by evidence that top secret material coursed through her account, could negate one of her main selling points for becoming commander in chief – her national security record.

He trails Clinton by rough 5 points in Iowa but leads her by roughly 15 points in New Hampshire, which votes February 9, according to the RealClearPolitics poll averaging. He unleashed a series of latest television advertisements calling Florida Senator Marco Rubio as the “Republican Barack Obama”.

The department also announced that 18 emails between Clinton and President Obama would also be withheld from Friday’s release.

“After eleven hours of testimony, answering every single question in public, which I had requested for many months, I think it’s pretty clear they’re grasping at straws and this will turn out the same way”, she said.

“This appears to be overclassification run amok”, Fallon said. Kirby said the department’s decision to not include messages between Clinton and the president had been “widely covered months ago”.

Thus, last week’s disclosures do nothing to change or advance the fundamental issue, which is why in the world Clinton would choose to use a private email server for official government business in the first place.