US declares 22 Hillary Clinton emails 'top secret'

Feb 14, 2016, 06:29

The department also announced that 18 emails exchanged between Mrs. Clinton and President Barack Obama would not be available to the public but John Kirby, the department's spokesman, clarified the emails did not contain classified information.

The Associated Press news agency learned ahead of the release that seven email chains would be withheld in full for containing "top secret" information. Clinton characterized the email flap as a "dispute about retroactive classification" and reiterated that she never sent or received classified material on her private email account.

The announcement came three days before the Iowa caucuses, when the first votes are cast for the presidential nominations and where Clinton is locked in a tight race with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders to become the Democratic nominee for the November election.

State Department officials have said that using a private email account was not prohibited and that Clinton never shared classified information over the account.

"This appears to be over-classification run amok", it said in statement.

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- The State Department said Friday that it would withhold 22 documents from its release of Clinton's emails because of the classification issue and that it would take appropriate action if it determines that security regulations were breached.

Following a court-ordered schedule, the State Department has already released most of the roughly 30,000 work emails Clinton returned to the department.

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As a career public servant Hillary should have realized that any correspondence issued or received by a Secretary of State had the potential of being retroactively labeled top secret. "We feel no differently today".

"It says classified information is marked or unmarked classified and that all of your training to treat all of that sensitively and should know the difference", said Stephanopoulos, describing the document.

AP reported last August that one focused on a forwarded news article about the CIA's classified U.S. drone programme.

"How a New York Times public article that goes around the world could be in any way viewed as classified, or the fact that it would be sent to other people off of the New York Times site, I think, is one of the difficulties that people have in understanding what this is about", she said.

While a judge had ordered the department to release all of the emails by the end of January, lawyers for the department said this week that they would miss the deadline and requested another month. Previously, the agency had disputed the intelligence community inspector general's finding that at least two messages contain top secret information, arguing that the material may have been overclassified. They asked the government to make the emails public.

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