The volume of emails slated to go public Monday is roughly the same as that of all of Clinton’s messages unveiled up to this point.
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Clinton forwarded the e-mail to her top aide, Huma Abedin, asking “Do you know what this is [sic]”.
The message hinted at the largely hidden role the former first daughter has played over the years as an agent and adviser to her famous parents, “an invisible soldier”, as she described herself in that memo. “It’s never tiresome in WHA!” she wrote, apparently referring to Western Hemisphere affairs.
The State Department is releasing batches of Clinton’s emails once a month under a court-directed plan.
The batch of about 7,000 e-mails – the largest release to date – includes about 150 that have been partially or entirely censored because the State Department determined they contained classified material.
“It’s not an exact science”, Toner said.
Clinton sent or received a total of 62,320 emails during her term as secretary between 2009 and 2013.
The State Department advised employees not to use personal email accounts for work, but it wasn’t prohibited. Most of the Democratic Presidential candidates including Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley and Lincoln Chafee are attending at the event. “He deserves some recognition for grace under pressure and a job well done”, wrote Lissa Muscatine, who is also a former speechwriter at the State Department. Most is redacted; in part, according to the redaction code, because it dealt with “foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources”.
The subject line: “Gefilte fish“.
Earlier, she was going around joking about the email server.
Officials of the US government are forbidden to transmit classified information outside secure, government-controlled networks. Still, she said last week that she regrets setting up the system as she did and takes responsibility for the poor decision. “They have to review literally every email, every page”.
Toner added, nevertheless, in that none of the emails reviewed had been designated classified at the time.
‘And that’s really for the inspector general and other entities that are out there looking at these broader questions, ‘ he said.
Clinton’s official correspondence, minus information deemed secret and then redacted by the State Department or intelligence agencies, is scheduled to be released by in January.
A few of the messages released Monday hint at the ways Clinton’s family was involved in her work at the agency.
Mr Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said the latest information about classifications underscored concerns about Ms Clinton’s conduct.
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A representative for the Clinton campaign did not respond to a request for clarification from TheBlaze.
