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State Department finds 22 classified emails in Hillary’s server, denies wrongdoing

Timing is everything

The US State Department is to release another 1,000 emails from the 55,000 found on Hillary Clinton’s private (and insecure) email server, saying that 22 contain material that is classified, but wasn’t at the time the messages were sent.

"The documents are being upgraded at the request of the intelligence community because they contain a category of top secret information," State Department spokesman John Kirby told the AP.

Classified information will be blacked out of Friday’s document dump by the State Department, as will 37 pages of documents concerning "special access programs" that are deemed too sensitive to release in redacted form. Another 18 messages between Clinton and President Obama will be held back until he releases his presidential papers.

Clinton, currently campaigning in Iowa ahead of the first state presidential nominee elections, has insisted that no emails went through the server that contained classified data, and Friday’s release appears to confirm that, since classified status was retroactively applied to the information.

Kirby declined to comment on whether the 22 emails were written by Clinton, or merely viewed by her. Her campaign has called for the full release of all of the emails for public scrutiny.

"We firmly oppose the complete blocking of the release of these emails," Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said.

"Since first providing her emails to the State Department more than one year ago, Hillary Clinton has urged that they be made available to the public. We feel no differently today."

Clinton’s opponent Bernie Sanders has repeatedly said the emails are a non-issue, but her Republican opponents have made hay over the issue, and it promises to be a problem for her if she wins the Democratic nomination.

The Republican position is rather odd, since the Bush White House ran a similar private email server hosted by the Republican National Committee. When the contents of those servers were subpoenaed it emerged that 22 million had been deleted, in possible violation of the Presidential Records Act. ®

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