As pressure builds on Hillary Clinton to explain her official use of personal email while serving as secretary of state, she faced new complications Tuesday. It was disclosed her top aides are being drawn into a burgeoning federal inquiry and that two emails on her private account have been classified as “Top Secret.”
The inspector general for the Intelligence Community notified senior members of Congress that two of four classified emails discovered on the server Clinton maintained at her New York home contained material deemed to be in one of the highest security classifications - more sensitive than previously known.
The notice came as the State Department inspector general’s office acknowledged that it is reviewing the use of “personal communications hardware and software” by Clinton’s former top aides after requests from Congress.
“We will follow the facts wherever they lead, to include former aides and associates, as appropriate,” said Douglas Welty, a spokesman for the State Department’s inspector general. Source:
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" Clinton, which has repeatedly denied she ever sent or received classified information, has attempted to downplay the
scrutiny as mere partisan attacks, but questions about her judgment and
motive for setting up a private server in her Chappaqua house in 2009
continue to dog her. Her campaign declined to comment."
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By Anita Kumar, Marisa Taylor and Greg Gordon
McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON
As pressure builds on Hillary Clinton
to explain her official use of personal email while serving as
secretary of state, she faced new complications Tuesday. It was
disclosed her top aides are being drawn into a burgeoning federal
inquiry and that two emails on her private account have been classified
as “Top Secret.”
The inspector general for the Intelligence
Community notified senior members of Congress that two of four
classified emails discovered on the server Clinton maintained at her New
York home contained material deemed to be in one of the highest
security classifications - more sensitive than previously known.
The notice came as the State Department inspector general’s office acknowledged that it is reviewing the use of “personal communications hardware and software” by Clinton’s former top aides after requests from Congress.
“We
will follow the facts wherever they lead, to include former aides and
associates, as appropriate,” said Douglas Welty, a spokesman for the
State Department’s inspector general.
Despite the acknowledgment,
the State Department inspector general’s office has left numerous
unanswered questions, including exactly who and what is being
investigated. The office initially declined to comment and referred
questions to the Intelligence Community inspector general’s office,
which said it is not currently involved in any inquiry into aides and is
being denied full access to aides’ emails by the State Department.
Clinton, herself, is not a target.
The expanding inquiry threatens to further erode Clinton’s standing as the front-runner for
the Democratic presidential nomination. Since her reliance on private
email was revealed in March, polls in crucial swing states show that
increasing numbers of voters say Clinton is not honest and trustworthy,
in part, because of her use of private emails.
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