Hillary Clinton Email News: State Department to Release Latest Batch of Clinton Emails
The U.S. State Department will release another batch of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails on Wednesdays, and the 6,000 pages will likely cover the period from late 2010 to early 2011.
The rough chronological order adopted by the State Department means that topics may include the Arab Spring democracy movement, the build-up to NATO intervention in Libya and the disclosure of tens of thousands of classified diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks, Politico reported.
The messages are being published in compliance with a court order that demanded the department reveal some of the former secretary of state's emails each month and make the full 55,000-page cache available by Jan. 29, 2016, according to The Hill.
The latest batch, however, is not expected to shed much light on the most problematic issues, such as Clinton's decision to delete about 30,000 emails when she returned roughly 32,000 others last December, Politico added.
Clinton, for her part, admitted over the weekend that the arrangement was taking a toll on her 2016 White House bid, USA Today reported.
"Well, it is like a drip, drip, drip," the Democratic frontrunner told NBC's "Meet the Press." "There's only so much that I can control. But what I have tried to do in explaining this is to provide more transparency and more information than anybody that I'm aware of who's ever served in the government."
When the last batch of emails was released in early September, observers noted that 125 messages had been flagged for containing classified information, an fact that caused uproar because Clinton has admitted to having used her private email account for government business during her time at the State Department.
Nevertheless, department spokesman Mark Toner told The Hill at the time that the information redacted from Clinton's messages was not classified at the time, but rather had been determined to contain sensitive material later on.
"The information we have upgraded today was not marked classified at the time the emails were sent. They have been subsequently upgraded," he explained.
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