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*Context Note* ALL of these emails were previously shared with the House Select Committee on Benghazi (Trey Gowdy – chair) several months ago.
When Hillary Clinton first admitted to the exclusive use of a private email system, during her tenure at Secretary of State, one of her main points of emphasis was that none of the emails she received (or sent) -from the non-secure network- were classified.
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However, today the State Department has released a few (approx. 300) of those emails and many are redacted, some due to classified content.

[…] The information was not classified at the time the email was sent and was upgraded from unclassified to “secret” on Friday, according to State Department officials. The officials said 23 words of the November 2012 message were redacted from the release of 896 emails totaling 296 pages, to protect information that may damage foreign relations. ~ Associated Press

WASHINGTON DC – […]  Clinton has been broadly criticized for conducting official business over a personal email account, a practice that threatens to undermine the public record of official acts.
In March, she said the personal email account was simply a matter of convenience. “Looking back, it would have been better for me to use two separate phones and two separate email accounts,” Clinton said at a news conference following a speech at a U.N. conference on women’s economic status. “I thought using one (mobile) device would be simpler. Obviously, it hasn’t worked out that way.”
Her office said that she turned over to the State Department about 30,000 emails, a little under half the 62,000 total that she sent as secretary of State. The rest she deemed personal, and they were deleted. On the campaign trail in New Hampshire Friday, Clinton noted that the Benghazi committee has been in possession of the emails for several months, and said she is pushing the State Department to publicly release “all of them as soon as possible.”
The release Friday contained 296 emails that are all of the Benghazi-related emails Clinton sent from her personal account. The messages include a series of routine exchanges such as reactions to news stories and preparations for hearings. The documents are also heavily redacted — one email about “revised talking points” has the content blanked out entirely.
The Associated Press reported Friday that one of the emails was classified Friday by the FBI’s request, but was unclassified at the time Clinton received it. Clinton has said she did not send or receive classified material on her private account. She said again Friday that “all of the information in the emails was handled appropriately.”  (read more)


 

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