1,000 of Hillary Clinton’s emails deemed classified 2 ‘secret’ emails found in New Years State Department dump
NOW more than 1,000 of Hillary Clinton’s emails have been deemed classified – with two ‘secret’ emails found in the New Year’s Eve State Department dump
The State Department released another 5,500 pages of Hillary Clinton’s emails just hours before the New Year’s Eve ball is set to drop.
The dump was originally supposed to be much bigger, instead of the just 3,100 messages the public can now browse.
The total number of Clinton’s emails now deemed classified has climbed to 1,274, according to Politico, with 275 messages in this most recent cache being retroactively given the classified distinction.
Two emails released in the latest batch have been designated as ‘secret,’ the second-highest level of classification.
While the information wasn’t classified at the time, it could fuel more questions about whether sensitive information was at risk on her server.
The State Department typically unloads a new batch of Clinton emails on the last weekday of each month – in this case, New Year’s Eve
Agency has to comply with the order of a federal judge who oversees the process and demands steady progress toward the total by January
This month, however, only about 5,500 emails will hit the Internet instead of the 9,000 anticipated by the court order, and State will catch up ‘next week’
The State Department’s rush job during the holidays will also omit subject lines, senders and recipients from its searchable online data
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IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN: The Hillary Clinton ‘email-gate’ dump will continue with a new batch to come on Thursday
SO FAR SO LITTLE: The emails have revealed more about Clinton’s television watching preferences, tendency to lose personal items like scarves and reliance on her aides to complete menial tasks than bombshells
The GOP immediately glommed on to the fact that Clinton had hit the 1,000-mark for classified emails, saying her decision to use a private email account and a homebrew server ‘looks even more reckless.’
‘When this scandal first broke, Hillary Clinton assured the American people there was no classified material on her unsecure server, a claim which has since been debunked on a monthly basis with each court-ordered release,’ RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said in a release.
Priebus added that Clinton ‘lacks the character and judgment,’ to be president of the United States.
Under the terms of a court-ordered schedule, the agency was expected to release a cache of nearly 9,000 pages to the public tonight. But State said in the late morning that the day’s document production would fall short.
Hillary’s old stomping ground – she ran the department until early in 2013 – said it ‘will make another production of former Secretary Clinton’s email sometime next week.’
‘We have worked diligently to come as close to the goal as possible, but with the large number of documents involved and the holiday schedule we have not met the goal this month,’ the statement added.
Some of the highlights from the new messages include an exchange between Clinton and her chief of staff Cheryl Mills.
Mills brings to her boss’ attention a photo of Clinton, on her Blackberry, sporting sunglasses, which has gone viral.
The image was the basis of the ‘Texts from Hillary‘ meme.
Clinton doesn’t understand why an older picture is suddenly getting so much attention.
‘You look cute,’ Mills replies.
Hillary Clinton didn’t understand why this 2011 picture of her had gone viral a year later. ‘You look cute,’ her chief of staff explained
One of the new emails, Hillary Clinton’s aide Cheryl Mills explains to her why the photo, made famous by the site Texts from Hillary, went viral
In one exchange, Clinton looks over her schedule and asks her special assistant Lona Valmoro if she can get out of a seated dinner to celebrate Ex-Im Bank chairman Fred Hochberg’s 60th birthday.
‘Can I drop by Fred dinner and leave?’ the secretary of state writes.
Valmoro replied that she’s checking to see if there’s a cocktail hour before the meal.
In another email, Clinton requests five copies of More magazine, so she can read a flattering profile about her trip to Burma and the influence that her late mother, Dorothy Rodham, had on her life.
In the same requests, she wants DVD copies of remarks by David Cameron and Meryl Streep, who had both introduced the secretary of state at an event.
A more serious exchange happened between former Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Clinton shortly after the Benghazi terror attack in Libya in 2012.
Gates writes Clinton and wishes her his condolences over the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens.
‘The Ambassador was a perfect role model of the kind of person we need representing us around the world, and the others had so much to give – and already had given so much,’ Gates writes.
It takes Clinton over a month to respond.
When she does, she thanks Gates.
‘I hope we have the chance for a visit – and, maybe a drink – in the next few months,’ she adds, and he responds by giving her a couple of dates to chose from.
On the sillier side, longtime Clinton aide Philippe Reines created a flowchart that indicated who should ride with the secretary of state when she’s being driven around by car or by limo.
The first spot went to Huma Abedin, now the Clinton campaign’s vice chairwoman.
After that, Jake Sullivan and Capricia Marshall got dibs, and then a ‘tolerable’ ambassador.
Reines also suggests that he should get an invitation to ride in the limo if his peers aren’t available for the trip.
‘Chutzpah!’ he writes at the end of the flowchart.
The email shows the aide recirculating the chart when, at first, people don’t respond.
‘Without positive reinforcement I’m not sure I can continue to really invest myself in these missives/diatribes,’ Reines said.
Shown here testifying about the Benghazi attack in 2012, the new set of emails show an exchange between Hilary Clinton and former Defense Secretary Bob Gates, in which he sends her condolences and she takes more than a month to respond
A federal judge ordered the monthly installments of documents comprising roughly 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton turned over a year ago after a congressional investigation into the Benghazi terror attack discovered that she had exclusively used a private email address while she was in office.
The schedule calls for the emails to be released on the last weekday of each month, making the December portion due as the ball drops in Times Square Thursday night. In reality, the release will likely be made in the late afternoon.
The final batch will hit the Internet on January 29, just three days before Iowa’s presidential candidate caucuses.
Thursday’s documents were expected to cover 16 percent of the total.
Unlike with past installments, Thursday’s email release will not match the reporter-friendly formats from previous months, when subject fields, senders and recipients were scanned and converted to text so they could be searched.
Instead, a source at the State Department said, the emails will be presented only as scanned images – frustrating journalists intent on discovering what’s in them as New Year’s Eve parties get underway.
The State Department had trouble meeting its court-ordered goals in July and August as well, but pledged to get back on track after it brought in people from multiple intelligence agencies to help scour the files for classified information that couldn’t be made public.
So far the State Department has had to censor a total of 999 such emails, including a few that intelligence agency reviewers classified as ‘Top Secret.’
State itself, however, maintains that it has not classified any of Clinton’s emails at the Top Secret level.
That development has added pressure to Clinton as she campaigns for the White House. She originally said, nine months ago, that there were no classified materials on her private email server.
In later statements, the Democratic front-runner has tweaked her language to suggest that she never knowingly sent or received information that ‘was marked as classified’ at the time.
Her status as America’s top diplomat, however, carried with it the responsibility to know on sight what is and is not considered classified, and to protect anything that qualifies.
Clinton acknowledged months ago that before handing over the roughly half of her emails that she deemed ‘work-related,’ she ordered the other half deleted.
What remains has mostly been mundane, disappointing Republicans who hoped for smoking-gun drama that could knock Hillary off her presidential perch.
But the classified emails have still exposed her to an FBI investigation, reportedly centering on whether she violated the Espionage Act – which criminalizes the negligent or reckless care of state secrets.
In September she swore under penalty of perjury that she had surrendered all of her work-related correspondence, but investigators are probing a hard drive said to contain copies of many of the erased messages.
Clinton paid a State Department computer expert, Bryan Pagliano, to run her home-brew email setup before and after she left the agency.
Pagliano, however, has invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and refused to speak with congressional investigators about his role in the scandal.
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