Seven email chains sent from Clinton's private server withheld
January 30, 2016 11:58
The US state department has withheld release of "seven email chains" sent from former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's private server, admitting for the first time that her home server contained closely guarded government secrets.
The state department will be denying in full seven email chains found in 22 documents, representing 37 pages.
"These documents were not marked classified at the timethat they were sent," the State Department Spokesman JohnKirby said. He added that the department was now investigating whether the information in them was classified at the time it passed through her private email account run on a server in her home.
"The documents are being upgraded at the request of the Intelligence Community because they contain a category of top secret information," Kirby said.
"We have worked closely with our inter-agency partners on this matter, and this dialogue with the inter-agency is exactly how the process is supposed to work," he said.
Further, Kirby said another 18 emails which comprised of eight distinct email chains between Clinton and US President Barack Obama, are also being withheld in full from the state department's release of documents.
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