![]() ![]() They added that the Justice Department had not raised classification concerns about the now-redacted 1 1/2 lines in the Nov. No other redactions were made to the collection of Benghazi-related emails for classification reasons, officials said. The message, originally from Bill Roebuck, then director of the Office of Maghreb Affairs, was forwarded to Clinton by her deputy chief of staff, Jake Sullivan, with the comment: “fyi.” That part of the email had been categorized by the State Department as “NOFORN,” meaning that foreign nationals weren’t allowed to read it, including close U.S. The redacted portion appears to relate to people who provided information about the alleged suspects to the Libyans. Twenty-three words were redacted from the message, which detailed reports of arrests in Libya of people who might have connections to the attack, Harf said. 18, 2012, message about arrests in Libya was not classified at the time, meaning no laws were violated, but was upgraded from “unclassified” to “secret” on Friday at the request of the FBI to redact information that could contain information damaging to national security or foreign relations. The 296 emails had already been turned over to the House Benghazi committee.Ī Nov. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were released by the department on Friday. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including U.S. Only messages related to the 2012 attacks on the U.S. Last year, Clinton gave the State Department 55,000 pages of emails that she said pertained to her work as secretary sent from her personal address. That would have protected her communications from the prying eyes of foreign spies, hackers, or anyone interested on the Internet. It’s not clear if Clinton’s home computer system used encryption software to communicate securely with government email services. The occurrence of subsequent upgrade does not mean anyone did anything wrong.” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said, “It was not classified at the time. She has said the private server had “numerous safeguards.”Ĭampaigning in New Hampshire, Clinton said Friday she was aware that the FBI now wanted some of the email to be classified, “but that doesn’t change the fact all of the information in the emails was handled appropriately.”Īsked if she was concerned it was on a private server, she replied, “No.” ![]() Taken together, the correspondence provides examples of material considered to be sensitive that Clinton received on the account run out of her home. They included several that were deemed sensitive but unclassified, contained details about her daily schedule and held information - censored in the documents as released - about the CIA that the government is barred from publicly disclosing. The prospect for political complication in Clinton’s choice to use a personal email account, rather than one issued by the government, was evident in the messages released Friday. Along with a Republican-led House committee investigating the Benghazi attacks, the slow drip of emails will likely keep the issue of how Clinton, the front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, used a personal email account while serving as the nation’s top diplomat alive indefinitely.Ĭommittee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said that the released emails were incomplete, adding that it “strains credibility” to view them as a thorough record of Clinton’s tenure. Instead, the judge ordered the agency to conduct a “rolling production” of the records. The nearly 900 pages of her correspondence released Friday are only a sliver of the more than 55,000 pages of emails Clinton has turned over to the State Department, which had its plan to release them next January rejected this week by a federal judge. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi that was later classified “secret” at the request of the FBI, underscoring lingering questions about how responsibly she handled sensitive information on a home server. WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton received information on her private email account about the deadly attack on U.S. By LISA LERER, MATTHEW LEE and JACK GILLUM ![]()
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