![]() ![]() "The only reason to hold secretary Clinton responsible for emails that didn't originate with her is for political points, and that's what we've seen over the past several months," Feinstein added.Ĭlinton's campaign reacted with fury to the announcement, demanding that the emails be released in full, to defuse a burgeoning scandal that could critically damage her 2016 presidential hopes.Ĭampaign spokesman Brian Fallon said the review process "appears to be over-classification run amok." She described the material as being contained in 22 separate emails. Senator Dianne Feinstein, the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that "none" of the email chains originated with Clinton or contained the mandatory markings that are required to accompany classified information when shared. ![]() "The documents are being upgraded at the request" of US intelligence agencies. "These documents were not marked classified at the time they were sent," Kirby told a news briefing, explaining that the emails had been reviewed prior to public release and found to contain top secret information. The revelation about the top secret emails comes three days before Clinton - the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination - goes to battle in the Iowa caucus, the first time the public will cast ballots on the long road to Election Day in November. ![]() But Kirby said those exchanges did not contain classified information.Īlthough emails previously released by the State Department have been partially redacted due to the nature of the information they contained, this was the first time entire messages were withheld. State Department spokesman John Kirby said the emails, which he described as "22 documents covering 37 pages" from seven email chains during Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, would therefore not be released publicly.Īnother 18 emails, from eight email chains, sent between then secretary Clinton and President Barack Obama will also not be released. “Yet we can’t only fight at the ballot box or through the political arena, because we see how the forces of darkness that want to push our rights back, push opportunities back return back generations are fighting on on cultural fronts as well,” she said."Top secret" material was sent through Hillary Clinton's private email server during her tenure as secretary of state, it was revealed Friday, just days before voters cast their first ballots in the presidential campaign. “There’s also an undercurrent of misogyny and sexism that is now made much more public and, sadly, acceptable because of social media … And we need to fight back politically so that the space for women doesn’t continue to narrow.”Ĭhelsea, who echoed her mother’s thoughts on the importance of fighting back by showing up to vote, also sees a necessity to push back on the “cultural front,” pointing to recent decisions to ban Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” as one example. “I think there is pushback against women’s rights and opportunities and progress in our own country, but elsewhere in the world,” Hillary said, pointing to the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. What Hillary Clinton Learned Being on the Other Side of the Camera for Docuseries ‘Gutsy’ ![]()
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