If Clinton knew the information should have been classified but it hadn’t yet been deemed to be a government secret, she also can’t be prosecuted, Levin said.
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The department had been ordered to release all the emails by Friday, but last week asked the court for a one-month extension.
Still, the Clinton campaign on Friday pushed back hard on insinuations that the former state secretary might have failed to protect highly classified information, stressing the messages were not marked as classified at the time they were sent. “This flies in the face of the fact that these emails were unmarked at the time they were sent, and have been called “innocuous” by certain intelligence officials”.
The Obama administration is confirming for the first time that Hillary Clinton’s unsecured home server contained some closely guarded secrets, including material requiring one of the highest levels of classification.
Clinton aide Fallon criticized the email review process, saying, “This is overclassification run amok”.
We firmly oppose the complete blocking of the release of these emails, Clinton campaign spokesman Brain Fallon said.
While previous releases of Clinton’s emails have shown that she and her staff communicated directly with Kerry when he was a senator, the new email is the first from Kerry that the State Department has determined contains sensitive information.
The department announced that 18 emails exchanged between Clinton and President Barack Obama would also be withheld, citing the longstanding practice of preserving presidential communications for future release. The Federal Bureau of Intelligence is trying to find out whether the material involved was mishandled. Even though the media has made it seem as if there is little dispute that these 22 emails would jeopardize American national security, there is plenty of reason to believe that the ongoing controversy is really one over bureaucratic labeling.
The State Department and the intelligence agencies have been wrangling over the email review ever since McCulloch, acting on the request of Republican members of Congress, objected last summer to the release of some emails that intelligence officials had claimed included classified information.
For Clinton, the State Department announcement will give credence to the idea that her initial explanations of why she set up the private server and what sorts of material she kept on it are not entirely accurate.
The special access programs emails surfaced last week, when Charles I. McCullough, lead auditor for US intelligence agencies, told Congress he found some in Clinton’s account.
Instead, Clinton said Republicans are simply carrying out a campaign full of “a lot of innuendo and a lot of attacks” and said she had “answered every question”.
But the potential political costs are probably of more immediate concern for the wife of former U.S. president Bill Clinton.
It is also possible, however, that Clinton’s e-mail scandal may have reached the end of its usefulness, as fellow Democratic candidate Sen.
For those that Clinton only read, and didn’t write or forward, she still would have been required to report classification slippages that she recognized.
Since the start of the 2016 election cycle, I have been highly conflicted about Clinton’s presidential campaign. That distinction is crucial because Clinton has maintained that none of the classified emails found on her server were classified when created.
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These emails may be released after he leaves the White House next year.
