State Dept. to release 7,000 pages of emails, 150 censored

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By MATTHEW LEE

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department will release roughly 7,000 pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails Monday, including about 150 emails that have been censored because they contain information that is now deemed classified.

Department officials said the redacted information was classified in preparation for the public release of the emails and not identified as classified at the time Clinton sent or received the messages. All the censored material in the latest group of emails is classified at the "confidential" level, not at higher "top secret" or compartmentalized levels, they said.

"It's somewhere around 150 that have been subsequently upgraded" in classification, State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters.

Still, the increasing amounts of blacked-out information from Clinton's email history as secretary of state will surely prompt additional questions about her handling of government secrets while in office and that of her most trusted advisers. The Democratic presidential front-runner now says her use of a home email server for government business was a mistake, and government inspectors have pointed to exchanges that never should have been sent via unsecured channels.

FULL story at link.



In this photo taken Aug. 27, 2015, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in Cleveland. The State Department is expected to release roughly 7,000 pages of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails later Monday, including about 150 that have been censored because they contain information that has now been deemed classified. (AP Photo/David Richard)

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[snooper2]

1. Looks like she is saying, Superdelegates! in that pic

LOL

[DURHAM D]

2. and finally at least one member of the media gets

the retroactively classified part.

I assume dozens of corrections will follow because I am certain the media doesn't want to leave a BUNCH OF BIG FAT LIES out there.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Has any of the MSM mentioned the millions of emails Bush gang erased???? n/t

[DURHAM D]

4. It is only mentioned on DU by some posters. nt

[pnwmom]

5. What this should prompt is a discussion about the over-use of classification

to keep information from the public.

When information can be retroactively classified after it's spent 8 years on a public State Department site, something is seriously broken in the system.

[DURHAM D]

7. It should but somehow the media will manage to make it

Hillary's fault that they do that and also her fault that the various agencies are bickering with each other.

[Alice500]

11. +1 nt.

[Metric System]

6. REALLY?!?

"Department officials said the redacted information was classified in preparation for the public release of the emails and not identified as classified at the time Clinton sent or received the messages."

Followed by...

"Still, the increasing amounts of blacked-out information from Clinton's email history as secretary of state will surely prompt additional questions about her handling of government secrets while in office and that of her most trusted advisers."

Hey, there's no wrong-doing here BUT we should still be suspicious.

[DURHAM D]

8. Guess she should have only communicated

one on one. Yep... that would work. Make the SOS and all plus 30K employees live and work under one roof.

[pnwmom]

9. Sec. Rice was smart to rely only on her phone. There was no record to save

except for who and when.

[DURHAM D]

10. otoh - someone suggested on TV the other day

that state department employees should not even be allowed to have telephones. They didn't mention any other government employees like military members or security analysts.

[Alice500]

12. :) nt