“This past spring, Hillary Clinton asked the Department of State to publish the 55,000 pages of the work emails she provided to the Department last fall”, Merrill said.
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The Clinton campaign “pledged to cooperate with the government’s security inquiry” but maintains that her server was wiped clean after she turned over all 30,000 plus work-related emails to the State Department.
The Justice Department has said the FBI began investigating after the inspector general who oversees the U.S. intelligence agencies, I. Charles McCullough III, formally notified them of his concern that there was classified information not in the government’s control.
Clinton has said she was confident she never sent or received information that was classified at the time.
S.C. Democratic Party leaders say they aren’t seeing any great shift in support for the party’s presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton over her email and private server issues.
“Secretary Clinton’s previous statements that she possessed no classified information were patently untrue”, House Speaker John Boehner (R) of Ohio said in a statement after the Clinton camp announced that it would hand over the data.
“Given that the server was used to conduct official State Department business, questions have been raised regarding whether classified information was stored on the private server”, Johnson wrote in a letter obtained by McClatchy.
A high-level government source familiar with the investigation spoke to Breitbart News on condition of anonymity, telling us the inspector general for the intelligence community confirms that some of Clinton’s emails were “classified when originated”. “They were not marked as classified”, State Department spokesperson James Kirby said Tuesday.
Indian-American presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal continued with his attack on Clinton, saying, “Orange really is the new black”.
According to the report, emails purportedly had information that “diplomats can not unilaterally obtain”, such as satellite imagery and signals intelligence. Grassley said the inspector general of the nation’s intelligence community had reported the new details about the higher classification to Congress on Tuesday. Half of the emails were official and have already been turned over to the State Department. The idea that Hillary Clinton has been running for the presidency so long that she’s entitled to the nomination really doesn’t sit well with Granite State voters.
Clinton’s use of a private server is particularly controversial because of the possibility that foreign hackers could have snooped on the emails.
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Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Assistant Director Ronald Hosko said Clinton wouldn’t be able to shift blame if any sensitive material at all is discovered on her home server. Kendall has said previously that Clinton is “actively cooperating” with the Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry. But now it seems the former secretary of state was, at best, presumptive in her claims and, at worst, disingenuous.
