A trove of former US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton’s e-mails released on Monday by the US Department of State shows efforts by aides to solicit advice for a concussion she sustained in 2012 and illustrates Clinton’s personal difficulty with technology.
The department also made public one e-mail after rejecting concerns from Intelligence Inspector-General Charles McCullough III that it contained classified information.
That e-mail, released along with 7,800 pages of messages that Clinton sent and received when she was secretary of state, was an exchange between then-Department of State spokesman P.J. Crowley and New York Times reporter Scott Shane concerning decisions the newspaper had made about publishing information from government documents it had obtained from WikiLeaks.
In March, the New York Times reported that Clinton had relied exclusively on a personal e-mail account when she was secretary of state, an unusual practice that made it easier for her to shield her records from the public.
In July, McCullough said that among Clinton’s e-mails was “top secret” information — the highest classification of government intelligence.
Classified information is not allowed outside secure government servers and the FBI is now investigating whether classified information was mishandled in connection with Clinton’s account.
McCullough had said that the Department of State needed to review two of Clinton’s e-mails to determine their level of classification.
On Monday, the department said that its review of the e-mail involving the New York Times, which was forwarded to top Clinton aide Cheryl Mills, had been completed and that the message was no longer classified, adding that it was still reviewing the other e-mail.
Among the other e-mails released on Monday as part of the department’s monthly production of Clinton’s past messages was one to senior Clinton aide Philippe Reines.
Under the subject line “Stupid question,” Clinton asked Reines to help her find the Showtime TV channel.
“Because I want to watch Homeland,” she said.
Another e-mail included a list of 94 countries Clinton had not visited as secretary of state.
The subject line was “100 and counting...” — an apparent reference to the nations she had visited.
“With 7ish months left, plenty of time to run up the score on total countries,” Reines wrote. “110 is a reasonable goal.”
One exchange between Clinton and Reines revealed that he had approached the commissioner of the US National Football League to ask for advice about the concussion Clinton had suffered after fainting in late 2012.
In the e-mail, Clinton said that “having a cracked head” was no fun.
“Speaking of your cracked head,” Reines replied, “I reached out to both the Nfl commish (I remembered that his dad held your Senate seat) and Bill Frist. Frist responded wonderfully and is ready to help.”
Frist, a former senator from Tennessee, is a physician.
Many of the e-mails released on Monday were heavily redacted, providing only tantalizing hints as to what Clinton or her aides were discussing.
One exchange between Clinton and a close aide, Huma Abedin, had the subject line “Koch,” an apparent reference to either David Koch or Charles Koch, the billionaire brothers who have helped finance conservative causes.
Other than the subject, the entire e-mail was redacted.
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