Ahead of the Super Tuesday when voters choose their Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, the United States State Department released the final batch of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton, who is running for president, has sent and received these emails from her private server located insider her home.
In a report by VOA News, the latest release of the last batch of emails results to a total of more than 52,000 emails including 2,000 censored information categorized as classified. The final batch contained 3,800 pages including one sensitive email about North Korea's nuclear program, which is said to be "top secret." It has been since changed to "secret" and State Department spokesman John Kirby said that the initial assessment was not correct.
Clinton has denied that the information she sent or received, which were deleted, was marked classified at the time she turned over other files and emails to the U.S. State Department, News 4 San Antonio reported. However, the released emails contained exchanges between Clinton and U.S. President Barack Obama and they are being withheld for "executive privilege" reasons. These emails with Obama are in top of those classified as top secret and sensitive.
Other messages also include memos from then-Senator John Kerry regarding his meeting with foreign generals, emails about an Associated Press story concerning drone strikes, and portions of messages from Sidney Blumenthal about Kyrgyzstan.
Politico reported that Clinton is facing an ongoing FBI investigation regarding her email arrangement and possible breaches regarding classified information.
Clinton's campaign has been plagued with this issue but she says she has used a personal email instead of a state.gov account for convenience. Critics, however, believe she was evading federal public records laws.
Her Republican opponents have been making the issue their main point against Clinton, but her co-Democrat presidential frontrunner, Bernie Sanders, has not commented on it. It is expected that if Clinton wins as the Democratic candidate, the emails will again be the point for argument for the Republican presidential bid.
