In his replies, Mitchell included his notes on a conversation with Spain’s foreign minister, who had briefed Mitchell on discussions with Palestinian leaders.
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Clinton’s use of a private email server has become an issue for her campaign. Further, it reaffirms the belief of many voters than Hillary Clinton is a liar.
But in a few of the emails, Clinton and her aides noted the constraints of discussing sensitive subjects when working outside the government’s secure messaging systems – and the need to protect such information.
The FBI is investigating whether Clinton’s email setup may have compromised national security information. Another email from Ebeling to Clinton ended with “xoxoxo”.
“I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email”.
“It’s somewhere around 150 that have been subsequently upgraded” in classification, State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters. State Department regulations describe it as the “most important category of national security information” its officials encounter. “Needless to say, I’m so distressed over all of this”, she wrote on Election Day 2010.
Finally in a December 2010 email thread, Clinton, staffer Cheryl Mills and lawyer David Kendall joked about a news story about a man who robbed a bank wearing a Hillary mask. First of all, I’m glad she said at the time, Jim, that she was aware of classified requirements because it’s this BS about, “Oh, it was not marked” when that is, that’s no standard whatsoever.
“Looking back, it would have been better if I simply had used a second email account and carried a second phone”, Clinton said earlier this year.
The latest batch of more than 5,000 documents is a portion of the 50,000 emails under review that the department plans to release on a monthly basis. They are being published in monthly batches following a federal judge’s orders. The information has since been redacted.
All of Mrs Clinton’s official correspondence is scheduled to be released by next January.
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She is under pressure for using a private email account instead of a government one when she served as America’s top diplomat from 2009-2013. “Well its clearly a state vs outside email issue”, wrote Abedin in August 2010, after another aide reported missing some messages from Clinton. He went on to summarize “highlights” from the conversation. All or parts of some unclassified messages are redacted, as well.
