Hillary Clinton
The final batch of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails from her personal server was released Monday by the U.S. State Department after 10 months of foot-dragging.
A slew of new classified emails were found in the 14th and final release of documents that passed through Clinton’s “home brew” setup. Of the 3,871 pages released on Monday, 261 included classified information. Out of roughly 30,000 emails reviewed by State Department officials in total, at least 2,079 contained classified information.
The total number of “secret” emails stands 45, with 23 of those being released Monday, the Washington Times reported.
Clinton is now at the mercy of the FBI as it conducts an investigation into her handling of government documents during her time as Obama’s top diplomat. Agents will determine whether or not the Democrat presidential front-runner should be prosecuted for violating a subsection of the Espionage Act related to “gross negligence” on the job.
“[The Clinton server] matter is being handled by career independent law enforcement agents, FBI agents as well as the career attorneys in the Department of Justice,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch told Congressman John Carter, R-Texas, at a budget hearing Feb. 25. “They follow the evidence, they look at the law and they’ll make a recommendation to me when the time is appropriate.”
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Lynch’s comments came two days after a federal judge said he was tired of the “drip, drip, drip of declarations” related to the investigation into Clinton’s “stand alone” server, and said her top aides should be questioned under oath.
“This case is about the public’s right to know,” U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said Feb. 23 regarding Freedom of Information Act lawsuits filed by Judicial Watch and other organizations.
The Republican Nation Committee poured over the treasure trove of documents released by the State Department and concluded:
- 2,063 emails contained classified information on “foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources.”
- 1,478 emails contained classified “foreign government information.”
- 28 emails contained classified information on “intelligence activities [including covert action], intelligence sources or methods, or cryptology.”
- 4 emails were contained classified information on “vulnerabilities or capabilities of systems, installations, infrastructures, projects, plans, or protection services relating to the national security.”
Clinton maintains she did no wrong because the emails were not marked as classified. Intelligence experts say that is a red herring.
“It is the content that is classified – not the format it is in,” Fox chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge said Jan. 21. “To suggest to people that there is somehow a big rubber stamp with ‘classified’ that’s smacked on every document is completely misleading and that is something you only see in the movies. Mrs. Clinton knows better because she had to have special training as secretary of state because she has classification authority.”
Herridge’s reporting led to the revelation that Clinton’s server also included intelligence known as “special access programs,” or SAP. Senior lawmakers with the highest levels of security clearance had to sign additional nondisclosure agreements before viewing them, WND reported.
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