US State Department declares: 22 Hillary Clinton emails declared ‘top secret’

In a press conference, the State Department said, “None of the traffic was marked classified at any time” when it was sent, something Clinton has stressed, arguing the emails were handled properly.

Previously, sensitive information had been redacted from Mrs Clinton’s messages, but Mr Kirby said the “top secret” emails would not be released, even in part.

The denied documents include messages recently described by an intelligence official as concerning highly classified material that could point to confidential sources or clandestine programs.

Those 37 pages, contained within seven email chains dating back to Clinton’s tenure as US Secretary of State, will be withheld from a batch scheduled to be released later Friday.

Kirby, however, claimed the 22 email documents had not be identified as classified information when they were sent out through Clinton’s private clintonemail.com email account through her private server located at her residence in NY.

Clinton campaign managers, meanwhile, slammed the State Department’s decision and said it is “over-classification run amok”.

Fallon said the emails likely originated on the State Department’s unclassified system before they were ever shared with Clinton, and they have remained on the department’s unclassified system for years.

There’s a new turn in the controversy over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

Hillary Clinton’s private server held 22 e- mails that included top-secret information and are being withheld from release, the state department disclosed.

At a press briefing on Friday, Wall Street Journal reporter Byron Tau mentioned to Earnest that the State Department was releasing only 1,000 of the 9,000 emails that it has been ordered to release to the public.

In a move towards transparency, she has insisted that thousands of emails contained on the server have already been released by the State Department.

ABC News” Good Morning America ran a package Saturday morning asking the onscreen question “Clinton Emails “Top Secret’: Will Revelation Hurt Her Campaign?”, and featuring ABC News Senior National Correspondent Cecilia Vega observing that “Two days before the (Iowa) caucuses here, these headlines could not have come at a worse time for her”.

The State Department also said Friday that 18 emails between Clinton and President Barack Obama were being withheld from disclosure.

Clinton’s campaign reacted with fury to the announcement, demanding that the emails be released in full in order to defuse a burgeoning scandal that could critically damage her 2016 presidential hopes.

The Clinton campaign demanded Friday that the emails be released in full.

“There was never any information sent or received that was marked classified to me”, Clinton said, adding, “I just don’t see it as anything that will in any way cause any voter with an open mind to have any concerns”. “I’ve also tried to not only take responsibility, because it was my decision, but to be as transparent as possible”, Clinton said.

Steven Aftergood, who heads a project on government secrecy for the Federation of American Scientists, said he thought all the attention to Clinton’s emails was overblown, partly because similar classification disputes are common across government. So far, it has released 43,148 pages.