Emails released from Clinton's private server heavily redacted

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Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) A new tranche of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails from her private server, released Friday, have been heavily redacted with sensitive information kept from public view. The heavy redactions were expected because the intelligence community now has 12 individuals working full-time at the State Department to review the emails for possible classified material, officials told CNN.

The new measures were put in place several weeks ago, after the Intelligence Community's Inspector General notified the Department of Justice about a potential compromise of classified intelligence from several agencies. The watchdog also notified Congress about the potential breach after a sampling of 40 of the 30,000 emails sent from her private server found that at least four of them contained classified information, though they had not been identified that way.

In the letter to Congress, IG Charles McCullough said that State Department Freedom of Information Act officials told the intelligence community IG that "there are potentially hundreds of classified emails within the approximately 30,000 provided by former Secretary Clinton."

Because the material was not marked as classified, Clinton may not have known she was handling sensitive material. Clinton has repeatedly denied sending classified information from her personal sever.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/politics/hillary-clinton-private-emails-classified/

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1. Unmarked documents can contain classified information

Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO)

Unmarked Classified National Security Information.

Records of national security officials should be reviewed and handled carefully, as the classification marking requirements were not always executed on informal records such as handwritten notes. In all cases, it is the sensitivity of the information that determines classification. An unmarked, handwritten page can just as easily contain classified national security information as a document containing classification markings. When in doubt, treat handwritten notes concerning intelligence, military, diplomatic, or emergency planning matters as classified national security information.

http://www.archives.gov/isoo/faqs/identifying-handling-classified-records.html

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2. Hey, HRcee, you still got some 'splainin to do.

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3. Not likely...

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4. 41 messages contained classified material.

The second installment of emails from Hillary Clinton's private home-brew server, released Friday by the State Department, includes 41 messages that reviewers determined contained classified material.

One message concerned information then-Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman wanted Clinton to have before she took a phone call with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Another revolved around discussions about the need for a phone meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and cited an intelligence assessment about the Republic of Georgia provided by the European Union Monitoring Mission.

Still another message contained a State Department 'readout' – a summary – of an August 2009 meeting between then-Senator Jim Webb of Virginia and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Others focused on the internal politics of Honduras, planned meetings with diplomats from the United Arab Emirates, and preparations for a conference on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

In most cases, Clinton herself was merely a recipient of information – not the sender. If she had been using a secure State Department email address, the chain of communication might have been unremarkable.

But in at least one instance, she used her private email account to reply to a now-classified message with one of her own.

That exchange, with Bill Burns, then the undersecretary of State for political affairs, concerned the U.S. government's perception of the relationship between Russian president Vladimir Putin and now-prime minister Dmitri Medvedev.

'Moscow preparations are in reasonable shape,' Burns wrote Clinton in a section that comes before the passage that is now classified.

'Afghan lethal transit agreement is done, and will be signed on Monday. There's also a broader statement on cooperation on counter-narcotics and reconstruction in Afghanistan.'

Clinton responded by asking for 'periodic updates, especially your impressions of the Medvedev-Putin relationship.'

'I am considering a trip to the Caucusus and Central Asia in the Fall, perhaps attached to the Russia bilat[eral meeting], if we decide that makes sense.'

'As you know,' she continued in her unsecured email, before describing something sensitive enough to be censored before it was released to the public on Friday.

In one remarkable message dated September 21, 2009, Clinton's private email address received a summary of a 'senior staff and assistant secretaries meeting,' including details of several pending issues – including embassy security.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3181884/Newly-released-emails-Hillary-Clinton-s-private-server-include-41-messages-marked-CLASSIFIED-State-Department-inspectors.html#ixzz3hZlAIDJT