State Dept. to release 7,000 pages of Clinton's emails, 150 censored

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State Dept. to release 7,000 pages of emails, 150 censored
By MATTHEW LEE

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department will release roughly 7,000 pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails Monday, including about 150 emails that have been censored because they contain information that is now deemed classified.

Department officials said the redacted information was classified in preparation for the public release of the emails and not identified as classified at the time Clinton sent or received the messages. All the censored material in the latest group of emails is classified at the "confidential" level, not at higher "top secret" or compartmentalized levels, they said.

"It's somewhere around 150 that have been subsequently upgraded" in classification, State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters.

Still, the increasing amounts of blacked-out information from Clinton's email history as secretary of state will surely prompt additional questions about her handling of government secrets while in office and that of her most trusted advisers. The Democratic presidential front-runner now says her use of a home email server for government business was a mistake, and government inspectors have pointed to exchanges that never should have been sent via unsecured channels.

Toner insisted that nothing encountered in the agency's review of Clinton's documents "was marked classified."

Government employees are instructed not to paraphrase or repeat in any form classified material in unsecured email.

Monday evening's release will amount to more pages of email than released in the previous three months combined. Once public, it will mean roughly a quarter of all of the correspondence Clinton qualified as "work emails" has been published. Clinton provided the State Department some 30,000 pages of documents late last year, while deleting a similar amount from her server because she said they were personal in nature.


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-09-01

[jerome2]

Public release of private emails ...amazing US .@$#?!

[Hayduke]

"What? Hillary was using a private email? Uh...well...I didn't know anything about that. Nope...not me."

What's interesting is how everyone (in government) pretended not to notice that she was using a private email account. This is a stretch of almost science fiction proportions. Everyone who corresponded with her could plainly see the return address. There's no way hundreds, if not thousands, of people didn't know. Yet it seems no one asked any questions.

If this was a common, accepted and legal practice then why is everyone so desperately trying to finger point their way around it now?

Geez, turn on the lights and watch the cockroaches scatter.

Edited September 1, 2015 by Hayduke

[CMNightRider]

Public release of private emails ...amazing US .@$#?!

I think you may be a little confused about the classified e-mails that Hillary stored on her private e-mail server. As a result of her incompetence and distain for government regulations on how to handle sensitive government e-mail correspondence, her campaign for the presidency is now in a downward spiral.

It's hard to believe Hillary could be worst than Obama as a world leader but these two people are two peas in a pod. It is difficult to ascertain which one of these buffoons is more incompetent and dishonest. It looks like the liberals need to rest their necks and sit this election out.

[thaibeachlovers]

Tick tock, tick tock. Do we really have to go through another "Watergate" style fiasco after she gets elected? She should realise that she is doomed and pull out now, rather than drag out a death by a thousand cuts.

I know she is desperate, but it's rather unbecoming and very undignified.